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Recipe for disaster

I’ve had enough! Here’s to getting a laugh out of the depressing situation.

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

After hours of watching TV coverage of massive public demonstrations both in Israel and abroad, including interviews with the “Let’s wash our laundry in public crowd,” I’d had enough!

Could I get a laugh out of the depressing situation?

Perhaps I succeeded with today’s Dry Bones cartoon ...

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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