put humor in their ser-
mons," he said.
(Let him come to my shul, I
thought.)
"Rabbis are so used to
dealing with texts, that they
probably are good at coming
up with puns," he noted.
"Humor is a tool of com-
munication, like anything
else. But I try to be original
because the worst thing
someone can say after you
tell them a funny story is
that they've heard it
before."
A recent Rabbi Moline
original: He said that nor-
thern Virginia has very few
Soviet. Jewish immigrants,
but that a friend recently at-
tended the bar-mitzvah of a
Soviet Jewish youngster in a
nearby Reform congrega-
tion.
"I asked him if the bar-
mitzvah boy was 'twinned'
with an unaffiliated 13-year-
old from Rockville," the
rabbi said.
As to his thoughts on how
jokes are transmitted, Rabbi
Moline first speculated that
little Jewish men put them
under our pillows at night
while we sleep. But he said
he can gauge the results of
his humor by telling a joke
from the pulpit on Shabbat
and seeing it make the
rounds around town during
the following week.
"It's like a pyramid scam,"
he added.
I told the rabbi my theory
that in this age of instant
communication, we ought to
streamline jokes.
- You know, I told him,
there are so many jokes with
three guys in them, the Irish
guy, the Italian guy and the
Jew, or whatever variation,
and the first guy says this,
and the second guy says
that, and finally the third
guy says the punch line.
Well, why not just start
with the third guy? Head
straight for thelaugh.
When he asked for an ex-
ample, I offered:
. . . so the rabbi says to the
priest, "Rosary? I thought
you said Rosalie!"
And without missing a
beat, Rabbi Moline sug-
gested: "It's got possibilities.
But make the priest
Chinese." ❑

Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer
(1795-1874) may deserve the
title of the first Zionist. He
wrote pamphlets calling for a
return to the soil in Israel,
and he actually persuaded
Sir Moses Montefiore, the
British financier, to buy an
orange grove in the country,
in 1841 — the first to be
owned by a Jew.

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