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March 11, 2009

I found this video from MASA on MyJewishLearning blog:

In the video, a young woman is doing a standup routine at a retirement home. None of the old people find any of the jokes funny and eventually yell at the girl for comparing the current economic crisis to The Great Depression. Then it makes an implausible transition to say that Israel is an “Better Stimulus Plan.”

Nope, I don’t get it either.

Maybe its a reference to making aliyah instead of waiting around for President Obama’s trillion-dollar stimulus package to kick in. Last month, I read a little something about Israelis leaving the United States and its abysmal economy for the greener grass, or at least better beaches, of Israel:

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