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A selection of my favorite jokes from Yeshiva
An old Jewish woman is swimming in a pool, the manager walks up to her and says. "Can't you read the sign? It says No swimming in the pool."
"zat's the vey you read it." She responds. "The vey I read it is, 'No! Swimming in the pool'."
An old Jewish man is cleaning his house when, while washing an old lamp, he releases a genie. "I can grant you any one wish you desire." The Genie says, the man thinks for a moment, before wishing for peace in the middle east. The genie responds that even he cannot reconcile the Israelis and Palestinians. "Well then just once I would like my wife to give me a blowjob." '
"Now when you say 'peace'..."
A blind Rabbi walks into a church, puts on his tallis and teffilin and begins to daven. The congregants look around, confused, and the priest says, "Will all non-Christians please leave." The Rabbi continues to daven, silently intoning the Shema. "Will all non-Christians please leave!" Again the Rabbi continues to daven. Finally the priest, somewhat angry, requested. "Will all JEWS please leave?!"
The Rabbi looked up, took off his tallis, packed up his teffilin, and to the shock of the congregation, picked up the crucifix and began walking toward the door. "Come on bubbela, they want us to leave."
Mendel and his friend were on a ship emigrating from Poland to America, on the second day of their journey a huge storm erupted. Chairs were tossed across the deck as passengers screamed, but Mendel sat calmly reading his book.
"Are you crazy!" His friend yelled. "The ship may be sinking!!"
"What's to get excited? The ship belongs to me?"
During one service in a wealthy synagogue, the rabbi got carried away. Falling on hands
and knees, forehead to floor, he said, "Oh God, before thee I am nothing.”
The Cantor, not to be outdone, also got down, forehead to wood and said, "Oh God,
before thee I am nothing."
Seeing this, Levy, a tailor in the fourth row, left his seat, fell to his knees, forehead to floor and he too, said "Oh God, before thee I am nothing.”
With this, the Cantor elbowed the rabbi and sniffed: "Look who thinks he's nothing!"