Proven to be the Greatest Jewish Joke Ever

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Stop me if you've heard this one....

In Buenos Aires, two panhandlers are sitting on the ground, a few feet apart.

One wears a large cross. The other, a Star of David.

Needless to say, the plate of the former fills up quickly, with almost nothing in the plate of the latter.

After some time, a kindly priest passes and sizes up the situation. He turns to the Jewish beggar, "My son, you should put away that Star of David. You will never make enough money wearing that."

After he leaves, the Jewish beggar turns to the other with an annoyed look, saying in Yiddish, "Hey Merle, could you believe that guy, trying to tell us how to run our business?"

Greatest Jewish joke ever, right?

No? Got a better one?

(At our Purim celebration I always tell my father's favorite joke. If you want to hear it, you'll have to come over.)

This year we're making a contest for the best Jewish joke. Send it in and you may just win. Winning joke(s) will receive all the due honors thereof.

For your table tonight, 3 questions....

1. What makes a funny joke funny?
2. What makes a Jewish joke Jewish?
3. Why does Purim get all the fun?

(Hint, hint, hint...)

Shabbat Shalom

PS - All kidding aside, two of the great Purim mitzvot can be done online:

- Gifts to the poor - Here or here or here or ....
- Care packages to friends, neighbors, family - Amazon's selection


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A Good Jewish Joke

Years after a shipwreck, they found the sole survivor, who had washed up on a lonely island.

The survivor, Mendel Chaimowitz, showed the television crews the home he had built for himself.

“There is the house, here is the exercise gym, and over there is the synagogue.”

When asked to explain another structure, almost identical in appearance to the synagogue, he retorted, “Why, that’s the shul I’d never set foot in!”

So here's the question for your table - What's your favoirte Jewish joke?

Shabbat Shalom

PS -

A book of classic Jewish humor
A Mel Brooks documentary
A very funny 1967 clip, Woody Allen interviewing William Buckley:



Quoted from
The Amazing Jewish Fact-a-Day Calendar

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Shabbat Shalom

Random Talk

Once again, the calendar comes back to Purim, next Monday night.

You know what that means, right....? (It means Passover is only a month away....)

Question for your table: What’s the difference between Purim and Halloween?

Answer:

- On Halloween, people put costumes on their kids and take them to people’s homes to ask for candy.
- On Purim we put costumes on our kids and take them to people’s home to give them tasty food baskets.

Think about it.

Last year, many Table Talk readers responded to my call for Purim baskets to Jewish soldiers in Iraq and elsewhere.

This year, I don’t have an updated list.

But I do have an easy way to create a lot of simcha: Yad Eliezer.

Maimonides opines that one should spend more on gifts to the poor than on one’s own Purim celebration, because giving gifts to the poor creates the most happiness.

The second best way to create happiness: go to a local Purim party. Don’t know where to go? Send me an email.

The third best way to create happiness: watch the videos that I painstakingly gather for your enjoyment.

If you didn’t take the 3 minutes to watch one of last week’s vids, they are perma-linked here.


If you want some happy new stuff for you and the kids, watch these:





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR5Q-FffltM&eurl=http://badchen.com/Video.html&feature=player_embedded

Shabbat Shalom
and

Happy Purim

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