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What this Rabbi did when things got awkward...
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A story of Rabbi Gordon's exceptional leadership skills
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there was a rabbi in Southern California
who was young he was in his 20s and he
was putting together a banquet
celebrating his kabad Center and his
community Jewish Community it was a
fundraising event at this point his
kabad Center was probably just a couple
of years old and he's this young 25 26y
Old Rabbi he has this beautiful banquet
he has a
comedian and apparently the comedian did
not understand the crowd did not
understand that this is a Jewish
community and this is a synagogue and he
kind of misread his audience and was
using a lot of off off-color language
offc color
jokes and it wasn't appropriate for a
synagogue fundraiser and this young 25
26y Old Rabbi is just freaking out the
the guy's just on stage and keeps going
at it and he's just like Frozen like
what do I do RAB by Josh Gordon is at
this event and again he's a guest it's
not his synagogue it's not his anything
he lives an hour and a half away
but Rabbi Josh Gordon is in the audience
he walks up on the stage grabs the
microphone from the comedian and he says
thank you very much let's give him a
round of applause and the Comedian says
I'm not done he says yes you are round
of applause everybody Rabbi Gordon could
have easily said have said this is not
my event this is unfortunate it's ugly
it's uh I feel bad for that Rabbi who's
in that position who's gonna have to
deal damage control but not my problem
and it's not my position and I'm
uncomfortable doing anything because who
am I Rabbi Gordon said no now is not the
time to be humble there's a right and
there's a wrong and we have to stand up
for that right and wrong