Judaism
Springfield is home to a small but active Jewish community. The most prominent members include Krusty the Clown, his father Rabbi Krustofsky, and an old Jewish retiree who is known as Old Jewish Man. Krusty has his Bar Mitzvah in one episode. Krusty, however, is not very observant. A montage of pictures at the end of a Simpsons Christmas episode shows Krusty lying intoxicated in the gutter, while Rabbi Krustofsky and the old Jewish retiree run into each other at a local Chinese restaurant on Christmas morning. In the episode "Today I am a Clown", Krusty learns he is not quite Jewish because he never had a Bar Mitzvah. In that episode, his Itchy and Scratchy cartoon, "A Briss Before Dying" parodies Jewish circumcision. Itchy is about to be circumcised by Scratchy, but instead cuts him into pieces, melts and turns him into a goblet and stamps on him, shouting "Mazel Tov!" Krusty back-announces "And that's what I believe in now."
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“Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.”
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