Yaakov Kirschen’s first cartoon was published in the Jerusalem Post on Jan. 1, 1973. The comic, called “Dry Bones,” starred a Ziggy-like character named Shuldig, a bald and bristly everyman, ...

thanks to The Jerusalem Post, Yaakov Kirschen, the “Mad” Zionist, applied that screwball approach to the greatest adventure in Jewish life, Israel. Through his “Dry Bones” cartoon ...