A weekly Torah class and lunch for senior citizens in Miami Beach, Fla., boasted some big-name talent last week when world-famous Jewish comedian Jackie Mason introduced Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Zev Katz.
“Chutzpah!” Mason berated the crowd amidst peels of laughter. “It takes me coming to the Seniors’ Club for all of you to step foot into a synagogue?”
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A weekly Torah class and lunch for senior citizens in Miami Beach, Fla., boasted some big-name talent last week when world-famous Jewish comedian Jackie Mason introduced Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Zev Katz.
“Chutzpah!” Mason berated the crowd amidst peels of laughter. “It takes me coming to the Seniors’ Club for all of you to step foot into a synagogue?”
In truth, however, most of the 90 attendees have been going to the weekly Lunch N’ Learn sponsored by the Chabad House on Wheels for quite some time. Katz, who together with his wife Chani has been directing the center for 10 years, said that the last-minute appearance by Mason was entirely the entertainer’s idea.
“He asked us how much it would cost to sponsor,” related Katz, “and then, with only a day’s notice, 90 people showed up.”
The Katzes met Mason about three months ago through two rabbinical students working for them, Yaakov Pearson and Nosson Levilev. The pair were taking the Chabad House’s mobile outreach center on its daily route through the community and the tourist hotspot of Lincoln Road when they came upon Mason at a local ice cream shop. Since then, the two have made regular trips to visit with the comedian, who one day asked about sponsoring the next seniors’ event.
Nice Jewish Story
Moishele’s birthday was coming up, right before Succos,
so Mommy and Tatti bought him drums, for a present.
Sure enough, 5 year-old Moishe starts drumming away,
non-stop.
Near Chanukah time, Tatti, frantically, shouts to his
wife saying,“PLEASE! Take those drums away from Moishe,
before I go CRAZY!!! Wife says, ”I’m afraid it’s too late.
THE DRUMS BROKE RIGHT BEFORE SIMCHAS TORAH!!!”
yossi
GO YANKEE!!!!!
Bayla
very well written…
Love Yankee
Incredible…Yankee Pearson is the Man!!
He meets all these celebrities!!!
Yankeee fan club!!!!WOOOOO
Love Jackie
Two recent Jackie Mason lines.
“Did you know that the Jews invented sushi? Two Jews bought a restaurant with no kitchen” and “My mother used to burn fish all the time, we just threw it out, now its Cajun food.”
UPDATE
To Love jackie:
The latest line is obama is a fraud a phony and a laie (not lair laie)