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rabbi, a priest and a minister
..." sound familiar to you?
Of course it does. That begin-
ning has led off more anecdotes than
we care to remember. I think we should
give some thought to taking a standard
beginning — or better yet, a punch line
— and giving it some new life through
a bit of creativity.
There is a joke
that involves a
man from the
States going to
China and visit-
ing a shul. When
his seat neighbor
remarked on his
ability to read
Hebrew so well,
the man replied
that he was a Jew.
"Really," said the
Asian, "you don't
look Jewish." And
there is our tag line.
Here are situations around which you
could build a joke. See if you can guess
the end. (I shall give the answers at the
end for those of you who just can't get
punny.)
The painter said to pick the blue or
the gray-blue; but I said, this doesn't
look
"Well," said the fly, "I landed on the
paper and got stuck, but it didn't look

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Who knew that when he married
that woman she would be such a nag.
She didn't look
This gummy candy really did a
number on my filling. Funny, it didn't
look
An ale is an ale. This beer is good
because it looks
The thing I hate about London is
standing in lines. People there are too

Anyone can solve the mystery with
help. Look for something
If you really hate antiques, then look
for something
I know you can win her heart; she
looks

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You will never pass as a member of
the airline staff; you don't look
And when all else fails, you can
always go back to "A rabbi, a priest and
a minister ..." I

Answers:
blue-ish
glue-ish
shrew-ish
chewy-ish
brew-ish
que-ish
clue-ish
new-ish
woo-ish
crew-ish

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Sept. 29-Oct. 5, 2011 I 1-7 Tishrei 5772 I Vol. CXL, No. 8

Shabbat / Holidays

Ann Arbor

51, 52

Spirituality

38

46

Around Town

28

Sports

Arts/Entertainment

49

Staff Box/Phone List

6

Calendar

32

Synagogue List

40

Community

48

Torah Portion

38

Food

54

World/Israel

34

Health/Fitness

43

Life Cycles

58

Marketplace

Metro

61

8

Obituaries

72

Points Of View

37

Rosh Hashanah
Night 2: Thursday, Sept. 29, 8 p.m.

Shabbat Shuvah: Friday, Sept. 30, 6:58 p.m.
Shabbat Ends: Saturday, Oct. 1, 7:57 p.m.

Fast of Gedalyah
Sunday, Oct. 2, 6:18 a.m.-7:55 p.m.

Columnists

Rabbinic Messages

42

Danny Raskin

56

Robert Sklar

36

Shabbat/Yom Kippur: Friday, Oct. 7, 6:26 p.m.
Shabbat/Holiday Ends: Saturday, Oct. 8, 7:45 p.m.

Times from Yeshiva Beth Yehudah calendar.

On The Cover:

As the son of an HFL Board member,
Colton Graub attended some of
Hebrew Free Loan's annual business
meetings, but it wasn't until he
became an agency intern that he
understood just how his dad helped
others. "He wanted me to learn what
he did, and I thought I knew. I thought
he came and sat in a small room and
interviewed one person, and that was
it. That's not my perspective now
that I've worked here," Colton said.
'This is such a busy place. They're
constantly getting phone calls, people
come in and out. This agency really is
important to people."
The Cranbrook student became
HFL's intern to fulfill a school credit,
and worked some more with the
agency on his own. "I've done a lot
here, from office tasks to working on
the agency archives. Kids may not
think about HFL right away as a
place to get involved but there are
ways to help," Colton said. "I hope
to stay somewhere near for college,
and I'd like to live here afterward,
and I would one day like to be on the
HFL Board.
"Hebrew Free Loan makes it personal.
You talk to real people, you meet real
people, everyone is committed."

The Power of Recycling

Hebrew Free Loan gives interest-
free loans to members of our
community for a variety of
personal and small business
needs. HFL loans are funded
entirely through community
donations which continually
recycle to others, generating
many times the original value
to help maintain the lives of
local Jews.

www.hfldetroit.org
248.723.8184

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