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Lighten Up,

JAMES D. BESSER
Special to the Jewish News

fancy categories here, just batches of
unrelated jokes — everything from
old dialect groaners to the kind of
humorous lists that often circulate on
the Net ("you know you're a Jewish
redneck if ... You have a gun rack in
your sukka." There are also links to
other Jewish humor sites from around

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retired government worker
in Virginia — just planned
to offer an amusing selec-
tion of Jewish humor on the Web.
But things
got out of hand.
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the biggest
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jokes this side of
the Borscht Belt,
he incorporated
it into a Jewish
Web portal that
reflects his own
offbeat interests.
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with links to a
number of gen-
eral-interest
search engines. Just under that head-
the world.
ing are the broad Jewish categories of
A warning: while there aren't any
recipes, music, women, Kabbala, sto-
dirty jokes here, a few have an off-
ries and the like.
color tinge that might bother some
A "Jewish Communities" section
visitors.
provides links to sites around the
Topping it off are links reflecting
world describing the varied places
some of Leichter's own interests —
where Jews live. The 'All Things
earthquakes, traffic congestion, science
Jewish" section includes pointers to an
and the Washington Redskins.
amazing miscellany of sites of Jewish
Leichter's homepage lacks the pre-
interest.
tensions of other big Jewish sites. This
Further down thepaleare links to
is just a regular guy, trying to keep out
mainstream news,siles and some not-
of trouble during his retirement years.
so-mainstream ones, including daily
The result is a fascinating hodgepodge
"weird news" collections.
that will keep you entertained and
But it's the humor that really sets
informed. Find it at:
Leichter's page apart. There are no
www.haruth.com/Leichter.html ❑

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