JEWISH JOKESTER EXONERATED AFTER REVEALED THAT HE IS JEWISH

Matt Weintraub, a local dentist from Ginnesberg, California, made an offensive Jew joke at a dinner party last Wednesday. According to Weintraub’s wife, Dora, it was during the appetizers that Weintraub blurted out, “How can you tell a Jewish house at Christmas?” Before anyone could answer, Weintraub answered his own joke with, “There’s a parking meter on the roof.” The rest of the dinner guests, some Jewish, some not, remained mostly silent. It was only until Weintraub, who was slightly uncomfortable at the silence his joke was met with, revealed to everyone that it was acceptable for him to make the joke because he was Jewish himself. At that point, the tension of the room was relieved and everyone laughed hysterically. Doug Faulks, a dental hygienist and co-worker of Weintraub’s, was initially offended at the joke. “My wife, who is half Jewish, was sitting right next to me, and as soon as Matty said the joke, I looked over to her and saw the sorrow come on her face. I was outraged,” Faulks said. “But then I chuckled non-stop once Matt told us he was Jewish. So did she. Phew!” Another guest at the party, a family friend of the Weintraubs, was glad that her moral self-righteousness vanished instantaneously once realizing that Weintraub was Jewish himself. “He could call us ‘kikes,’ so long as he’s wearing a yarmulke, it’s all fine with me!” Although no one at the dinner party was African-American, the group secretly agreed to make jokes about them since, according to Weintraub, no one could be offended under the Code Book of ethnic joke-making.