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Times like these

These days, it’s one thing and another, and another, and ...

Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.
Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.

We used to say, “If it isn’t one thing, it’s another.”

These days, it’s one thing and another, and another, and ...

The world seems to be spinning out of control in so many ways, so much is changing.

But the warning we read in the Passover Haggadah is a constant truth: “In every generation, they rise up against us.”

Political cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., made aliyah to Israel in 1971 and began drawing “Dry Bones” in January 1973. The internationally syndicated, award-winning cartoons ran in The Jerusalem Post for 50 years. They were reprinted in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, TIME and other mainstream media publications. The “Dry Bones” story has been covered by CBS, CNN and Forbes, among other outlets. He was a member of America’s National Cartoonists Society and the Israeli Cartoonists Society. Kirschen died at 87 on April 14, 2025.
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