Who’s the Funniest Rabbi on the Upper West Side?

In a basement standup club, religious leaders compete, and also worry: Are their parking places orthodox? Mark Singer writes.

So, anyway, this reporter wants to talk to these rabbis before they step into the spotlight for their three to five minutes each, and he asks the comedy club’s publicity person, Jennifer Walker, where he can find them—“in the green room?” And she says, “No, in the Greenberg Room.” So he goes to the Greenberg Room, which is really just a couch and two chairs in the middle of the basement—the Hoffmans’ old furniture from when they were living in Florida—and there the rabbis are, lounging.

” By this point the reporter is willing to listen to the family histories of any of the other rabbis, but the rabbis are all too busy worrying—either, like Rabbi Ronald Brown, of Merrick, about whether his parking space is, according to orthodox New York City law, strictly legal or else, like Rabbi Robert Harris, of Pelham Manor, who’s holding a crib sheet and scrutinizing it as if it were a fragment of ancient Phoenician text or something, about the possibility that the instant he steps...

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