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What this Rabbi did when things got awkward...

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Rabbi Josh Zebberman

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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