Session Seventeen’s topics:
Urban Legend:
“If a child intermarries, the parents are supposed to sit shiva!”
Frauds, Fakes, Forgeries:
“Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan led an Orthodox congregation until he lost his faith!”
Street Torah:
“You can kasher a knife by sticking it in the ground!”
Factitious Fiction:
The Last of the Just: “Being a Jew is to suffer, and being a lamedvovnik is to be martyred!”
People Thought the Darndest Things!:
“The ten tribes still exist, but they’re beyond the Sambatyon River!”
Misunderstood Text:
“A man using an Orthodox prayerbook thanks God that he isn’t a woman!”
Stranger Than Fiction:
Yeshiva University wanted to honor its oldest living alumnus, but it would have been too embarrassing.