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The president pleads with the worshipers, "Is there anyone who can finish the service?" There are no volunteers. The situation grows desperate. Finally a man in the back of the synagogue an- nounces, "My dog can do it." After a hurried conference, the frantic synagogue officers agree they have nothing to lose by letting the dog try to complete the service. So the shaggy dog, wearing a kippah and tallit, mounts the bimah. And he's unbelievable. He has a two-octave range. The congregation is stunned. After the prayers are over, the grateful president tells the animal's owner, "Your dog would make a great cantor." "I wish you'd talk to him," the owner replies. "He wants to be a doctor." The lesson: Some occupa- tions are too Jewish for anyone to want. Moshe Waldoks entertained March 9 at the Maple-Drake Jewish Center. Since co-editing The Big Book of Jewish Humor a decade ago, Mr. Waldoks, now 41, has traveled the lecture circuit. Recently, he edited The Big Book of New American Humor. At his Atlanta stop he told his audience: "With Jewish humor you can't laugh for free. Jewish humor tries to teach some- thing along the way." Speaking by telephone from his home in Boston, Mr. Waldoks says he doesn't believe the topic of Jewish humor is discussed enough. "It leads to other subjects like Jewish self-esteem, stereotypes and the role of Jews in popular culture. Jewish humor seems to be one of the touchstones that Jews, no matter how assimilated, seem to retain." David Holzel is a staff writer at the Atlanta Jewish. Times. Moshe Waldoks: Humor is a Jewish touchstone. Another story which teaches that Judaism demands action: At the age of 72, the faith of an Orthodox Jew suddenly falters. He beseeches God to renew his belief. "Give me a sign," the Jew pleads. "Let me win the New York State Lottery." Every day for six months he utters the same prayer and every day for six months he does not win the lottery. "Please, give me a sign," he begs in despair. Finally, there's a flash of light and the Jew hears a voice thunder: "Nu, shmuck, buy a ticket." Moshe Waldoks says his in- terest in Jewish humor stems from a love of Eastern Euro- pean Jewish culture. He received a doctorate from Brandeis University in Eastern European Jewish in- tellectual history. American Jewish humor is derived primarily from the Eastern European Jewish ex- perience. But there are dif- ferences. The humorists of the old country poked fun at everything, even God. Among American Jews, two subjects are practically off limits to the Jewish wit — the Holocaust and Israel. In the few humorous treatments of the Holocaust, either the Jew gets the last laugh or the humor is ex- tremely black, Mr. Waldoks says. And when it comes to Israel, Mr. Waldoks says most American Jews retain the ghetto fear that making light of the Jewish state in public is an invitation for the Cossacks to attack. "But in Israel, you can't put together a newspaper without two or three pages of satire,"