The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob

[Judith R Cohen <judithc...>]

To change the topic, have any of you seen this old (1970's) film by
Louis de Funès? I saw it
at the time it came out and then found it in our local public library
system and we watched it yesterday (in French only, no subtitles; I
think there's a version with them, though).
Relevant to JMD, there's a mind-boggling dance scene, at a bar mitzva
celebration on the streets of the Le Marais area in Paris, with a Muslim
and a Catholic disguised as Hassidim (I won't tell you why if you
haven't seen it) dancing away in the centre of it all....

Non-musically, or para-musically  - not only is it still
hilarious, but the Jewish-Christian-Muslim interactions now seem
touchingly innocent...
but it also occured to us that the unparalleled green chewing gum scene
might be used by as an alternative to, say, bombs - surely
arranging to have the offenders dumped in vats of liquid green (or
another colour, one can be flexible) chewing gum is less destructive to
innocent people, and more ecological,  and possibly even
more effective?

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