As retold by
Bruce Lowitt
Mendelbaum is sitting on a park bench reading Final Call, Louis Farrakhan's
newspaper.
Gittleman sees him. "What are you, nuts? You should be reading the Jewish
Journal, the Daily Forward. Why are you reading that rag?"
"Look," Mendelbaum says, "I read the Journal, the Forward, all I
read is stories about anti-Semitism, desecrated synagogues, inter-marriage,
Palestinians attacking Israel ..."
"So?"
"So, for a change I'd like to read good news. Farrakhan's paper says the
Jews control the banks, the Jews have all the money, the Jews control the news
media, the Jews run Hollywood. ... At my age it's better I should read nothing
but good news."
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