Re: kohen/levi/yisroel

[Jacob and Nancy Bloom <bloom...>]

With apologies for being off-topic ...

A non-Jewish friend of mine was once visiting a shul with her Jewish
boyfriend, who was being interviewed by the shul for the position of cantor.
With the temple board, she did very well at passing for Jewish, but the
shul's janitor said to her, "You're not one of them, are you?" - and asked
her if she wanted any of the slightly used Shabbas candles he collected
after blowing them out after Friday night services.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Cohen" <rlcm17 (at) hotmail(dot)com>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 10:56 PM
Subject: Re: kohen/levi/yisroel


> > > I don't know what my musical family was on either side, unfortunately
(
> > > interesting stories, though), so we claim Yisroel.
>
> A friend of mine has lived with a non-Jewish guy for many years.  (By
know,
> he probably knows more than many Jews {sigh} and has probably been to more
> services as well {ditto}.)  Anyway, they were (not untypically, i.e.) in a
> new shul once, visiting out of town, and the gabbai approached her guy and
> asked him if he was a kohen or levi (i.e., seeing same for aliyot to the
> Torah).  He said no, and the gabbai replied, "So you're just a regular
guy,
> I guess."  To which my friend's friend responded, "More regular than you
> know."
>
> --Robert Cohen
>
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