Part of the book cover for Mordechai Schmutter’s “A Clever Title Goes Here.”

So you think you are a comedian?

You can check out how funny you are — whether you have got more guts or yucks — at an open microphone Comedy Night for would-be stand up comedians at Teaneck General Store this Saturday at 8 p.m.

Headlining and hosting the event is humorist Mordechai Schmutter, a Passaic father of four, who writes a weekly Dave Barry-type humor column for the newspaper, Hamodia, and is author of three books — “Don’t Yell ‘Challah’ in a Crowded Matzah Bakery,” “A Clever Title Goes Here,” and “This Side Up,” (Israel Book Shop). He also writes a humorous advice column for the weekly Brooklyn-based Orthodox newspaper, The Jewish Press.

“There aren’t a whole lot of Orthodox Jewish stand ups,” says the 32-year-old Schmutter, who adds that his brand of humor, a take on the absurd and everyday life is, decidedly “kosher.”

When he is not writing or performing, Schmutter, who hails from Monsey, teaches language arts to yeshivah high school boys who, he adds, “don’t think tests are so funny.”

Teaneck General Store owner Bruce Prince says the two-year-old café, bookshop, and gift store on Cedar Lane has hosted comedy nights in the past, a popular activity that has drawn up to 80 people.

This is the first time, however, that Prince — who has hosted poetry readings, classes on Jewish topics, and other special events — has a local funnyman presiding over the comedy evening.

Prince says everyone is invited to come in and enjoy, or get up on stage and try out his or her stuff.

There are no prizes and no gongs; no cane pulling anyone off stage; no Simon Cowell-like jeers. Just a warm atmosphere that promises some fun.

“Hey, anyone willing to do shtick is absolutely welcomed to be part of the evening,” says Prince.

Comedy Night at Teaneck General Store begins at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 7. Teaneck General Store, 502A Cedar Lane, Teaneck. (201) 530-5046. You can email at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

In addition, Black Box Studios will present the Moriah Middle School Drama Program’s production of “Grease,” directed by Matt Okin with musical direction by Matthew Brady, at the Moriah School in Englewood, on Jan. 7 at 8 p.m., and Jan. 8 at 4:30. Tickets will be $5 at the door.

Ongoing Black Box Studios’ theater programs at the Jewish Center of Teaneck include the Intergenerational Theater Workshop which will perform “The Music Man,” Jan. 10 at 7:30 p.m., and Jan. 14 at 8. The Adult Acting Workshop will perform “Circle Mirror Transformation,” January 9 and 12 at 7:30 p.m. Both Starting Out on Stage and Continuing on Stage will collaborate to perform “Scenes and Songs from Peter Pan” on Jan. 17 and Jan. 18 at 6:30 p.m. Showtimes for the Pro Drama Workshops for Teens will perform “The Dark at the Top of the Stairs” on Jan. 11 at 7:30 p.m. and Jan. 15 at 8. “Seussical Jr.” will be performed by the Musical Theater Workshop for Kids on Jan. 16 at 6:30 p.m., and Jan. 17 at 7:30. The Pro Musical Theater Workshop for Tweens will perform “The Secret Garden (Spring Edition)” on Jan. 15 at 4 p.m. and Jan. 16 at 8.

Black Box Studios is a Partnership Program with the Jewish Center of Teaneck. For information, www.blackboxnynj.com.

It does not get more “only in America” than this. A Christian president with an African-born Muslim father and a rabbi on his wife’s side of the family throws a Chanukah party at the White House. The featured act is the West Point Jewish Chapel Cadet Choir — a group that serves as a beacon of Jewish pride and identity at one of the nation’s top military academies, while also boasting a non-Jewish conductor and plenty of non-Jewish members.

And one more twist.

When the Jewish choir performed at the White House Chanukah party earlier this month, it chose to serenade the commander in chief with a song of peace.

“We were invited there for the party, a big honor,” said Cadet Evan Szablowski, 20, the choir’s non-Jewish conductor, a junior from Bakersfield, Calif.

A photograph by Ely Dennis.

“Point of View” photographs by Ely Dennis will be on display at the Waltuch Gallery of the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly from Jan. 2 to 26. A meet-the-artist reception will be on Sunday, Jan. 8, from 1 to 3 p.m.

The photographs are mostly high resolution archival black and white images, printed on metallic paper, that capture unique images — or “Points of View” — of people, buildings and landscapes, taken in New York City, Rockland County, Asbury Park, Southern California, and Canada. For information, call Ophrah Listokin, at (201) 408-1408 or www.jccotp.org.

Gail Fishman Gerwin Courtesy GRJC

Gail Fishman Gerwin offers a reading and discussion, “Penning a Past in Poetry,” with selections from her memoir “Sugar and Sand,” at the Glen Rock Jewish Center, on Sunday, Jan. 8, at 3:30 p.m. (201) 652-6624.

Liron Sissman, an internationally collected, Israeli raised, Bergen County-based artist, paints in oils to depict nature often with a metaphorical flare. Hudson Valley Hospital Center acquired her large-scale artworks of scenes in New Jersey for its new oncology wing. Sissman’s works are also displayed in many medical centers including Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City and AtlantiCare Medical Center in Atlantic City.