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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

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the factory, and there were
no incidents. A week later,
the manager summoned the
"Jewish" employees to his
office to give them back their
old passports, but none of the
employees could be found. He
called his assistant.
"Where are they?" "Uh, uh
..." hesitated the assistant.
"Out with it!" "They've all
emigrated to Israel."
Khaimovich had a parrot.
One day while Khaimovich
was at work the neighbors
heard the parrot saying: "We
are fed up with this socialist
paradise. We want to go to
Israel ..." The neighbors
promptly called the KGB.
Several agents came over and
waited for Khaimovich to re-
turn home from work. When
he finally arrived, the agents
warned him that if the parrot
continued to say such anti-
Soviet things Khaimovich
would be in great trouble and
so, too, would the parrot.
But Khaimovich was a
wise man and decided to put
the parrot in the refrigerator
overnight. The next morning,
the KGB agents returned and
demanded to see the parrot.
When Khaimovich opened
the refrigerator door, the par-
rot, without a moment's hesi-
tation, began to shout: "Down
with Zionism. Up with
Angela Davis. Down with
Zionism. Up with Angela
Davis ..." The KGB agents
were satisfied and left.
Khaimovich turned to his
parrot and said:
"I'm very glad to see that
one night in the 'fridge made
you realize how things would
have been for us in Siberia."
Returning from a trip to
the Soviet Union, American
Communist Goldberg was
summoned to the headquar-
ters of the U.S. Communist
Party.
"Comrade Goldberg, did
you have the chance to meet
any real, unshakable Mar-
xists during your three-
month official tour of the
Soviet Union?" "Only one."
"And who was that?" "Ko-
gan, a tourist from New
York."

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Question: What is the
longest street in Odessa?
Answer: Bebelya.
Question: Why?
Answer: Because Ab-
ramovich went down it five
years ago to KGB headquar-
ters and still hasn't returned.
"Shapiro, we know you
have a brother abroad," said
the KGB official. "I do not."
"Don't lie to us, Shapiro,
we even have these letters
from him addressed to you
and postmarked Jerusalem."
"Ah, but you see, it's not he
who is abroad, it is I!"
To show to the world the
true equalitarian spirit of the
Soviet Union, an orchestra of
representatives of various
nationalities was organized.
Each member was then in-
troduced to the foreign press

corps in Moscow by the con-
ductor, Ivanov.
"This is Fyodorov the Rus-
sian," he began "And this is
Murzhenko the Ukrainian,
Saroyan the Armenian, and
Chikvili the Georgian. And
here is Rabinovich the vio-
linist."
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Nothing could be more
applicable to these stories
and the feelings and senti-
ments of Russian Jewry than
the definition of humor by
Mark Twain which accom-
panies the AJCommittee
selected jokes: "The secret
source of humor itself is not
joy but sorrow. There is no
humor in heaven."
Perhaps there is an appli-
cation to these stories in the
Jewish ability to laugh in
time of sorrow, to laugh at
ourselves as means of secur-
ing relief from oppressors.
Sigmund Freud had a defini-
tion for it in Wit and Its Re-
lation to the Unconscious
where he asserted:
"This determination of
self-criticism may make it
clear why it is that a number
of the most excellent jokes
... should have sprung into
existence from the soil of
Jewish . national life ... I do
not know whether one often
finds a people that makes so
merry unreservedly over its
own shortcomings."
Freud would surely have
considered his own definition
fully fitting in describing the
Russian Jewish jokes and
their manipulators.

Convicts Attend
Torah Retreat

New York — Thirty
minimum security Jewish
prisoners from 16 federal
prisons will participate in a
two week Torah Retreat
Leadership Program at the
Rabbinical College of
America (RCA) in Morris-
town, N.J.
The inmates will be re-
leased under a special court
order, according to Rabbi
Moshe Herson, dean of the
Lubavitch-affiliated RCA.
They will be trained to serve
as Jewish leaders in their re-
spective prisons, he said.

Terror Plan

Montreal (JTA) — Israel
proposed that terrorist acts
against airports and aircraft
be treated as an international
crime and that the perpet-
rators, wherever they are, be
punished according to inter-
national law.
The proposal was contained
in an eight-page document
presented by the Israeli dele-
gation at the opening of the
26th Assembly of the Inter-
national Civil Aviation
Organization (ICAO) in
Montreal.

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