The Care and Feeding of a Beard and Other Funny Stories

Zalman Velvel has been growing, trimming, and defending his beard for decades. That experience alone could fill a book, and it fills the title story of this collection, but there’s plenty more where that came from. These funny stories cover everything from synagogue politics to neighborhood characters to the small absurdities of daily life that most people walk right past. Zalman notices them, and he turns them into stories that make you laugh and then think. If you enjoyed the free funny stories on this site, this collection gives you a dozen more that are just as sharp and twice as long.