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Morning, fellas.

Oh, boy. Let's get a load of this, will you?

What the hell's the matter with you?

Oh, the wife kept me up all night.

Oh, nothing like that.

She just turned 50.

Cried all night.

Why can't women control themselves?

I gotta go in the storeroom now and lock away all our wines.

Why? Because the painter's come. Remember the last time a painter come?

And he come with his brushes?

And there's buckets and a corkscrew.

How are you? Want a cup of coffee? Uh, no, thanks.

Oh, sorry, Mac. We're still closed. Mr. Klein.

Rabbi, take us, right?

Temple Beth Isaiah, right? Guilty.

Same here. I guess that's part of our heritage.

Would you like a cup of coffee? Yes, black.

Okay. Oh, well, thank you, Harry.

You weren't going to drink it anyway, were you? Yeah, right.

It might keep me awake.

There you go. Thank you.

You bring Stephanie to our Friday night services sometimes, don't you?

Oh, you notice me, huh? Oh, yes. You're the one who coughs while I'm speaking.

Well, I always get a little voice after response agreements.

Tell me, Rabbi, what are you doing here?

I'm going around asking people in the neighborhood to help us with a very

serious problem we're having.

Oh, well, what's the problem?

Vandalism.

You mean that...

That incident in Manhattan?

Not just Manhattan.

Right here in Queens last week, they defaced Temple Beth Emmett.

Three weeks ago, they painted swastikas all over Raphael Israel.

Oh, my God. Oh, it's worse.

I could tell you about 20 incidents in the past year.

I didn't think things were getting that bad.

I'm very frightened about this, Mr. Klein.

Especially now.

Our synagogues are getting some threats, and we've got to do something.

Never ends, does it?

Join our committee. You've got to help us tell the people in the neighborhood

what's going on. We've got to stop it. Of course I'll do it. You can count on

me. Thank you. Is your partner around?

Yeah, he's here. Why? He's the only non -Jewish member of our congregation.

And I thought it would be a wonderful idea if we could get him in our

Good thought.

Forget it. Why?

Stephanie's in our shul.

Laurie, I think we ought to start this job ourselves.

Oh, you finally showed up. Oh, well, don't be drinking coffee. Get to work.

Come on, sir. Don't be entertaining the painter. They cost $35 an hour.

Mr. Bunker. Well, where's your buckets and your brushes? You call yourself a

painter?

No, I call myself a rabbi.

Why do you call yourself a rabbi?

Rabbi Jacobs.

Temple Beth Isaiah.

Oh, yeah, yeah. I met you when I brung the kid around.

I didn't recognize you without the Yamaha.

And you're a painter, too. What are you doing? Am I moonlighting?

I didn't come here to paint. I came to make an appeal.

Hold it. I sent my check in just the other day.

You got the check last week. Thank you.

I've come to talk to you about something very serious.

Well, I guess I better be sitting down for this one, huh?

Harry, would you mind bringing me over a cup of corby?

Coming up.

Okay, Rabbi, let's have it.

Mr. Bunker, you are a well -known and well -respected businessman in our

community.

This is true.

And you're not Jewish.

This is very true.

Arch, there's some anti -Semitic stuff going on. There's vandalism.

Oh, vandalism?

Vandalism, Arch.

Swastikas on the walls.

Oh, yeah, yeah, somebody was telling me about that. Ah, well, hey, that's just

kids' stuff. You know what they... Hey, the real anti -Jewishness, that's a

thing of the past now.

You know something?

Me and a 463rd bomb group over in Foggia, Italy, we took care of the last

them guys.

Well, unfortunately, you missed a few.

Well, I mean, I know a little prejudice is still floating around, you know, here

and there. But there's one thing about the U .S. array.

If people are going to be persecuted, they're going to be persecuted equal.

Will you listen, please?

You know that this is a real problem?

Why are you building this thing up, huh? I don't see nothing about it in the

headlines.

And anyway, Rabbi, you know I ain't Jewish.

That's right.

That's why I need you to join the committee. You could give us more

Oh, now, wait a minute. I'm a little bit afraid of committees, you know, and

meetings and all of that.

Hey, in America, you never know who would be seeing you coming out of a

And anyway, all them Jewish people over your temple, they don't want to see a

guy like me hanging around.

Yes, they do.

You're only a young fella.

You don't know them old Jews like I do.

You won't consider it? Listen to this guy here, a genuine Jew, sitting there

saying nothing. Give him.

I already joined.

Are you joined?

That's right.

Well, hey, you got one of us there, huh? One out of two, it means you're back in

500. You'll be okay with that, but I got a few things I gotta take care of in

the storeroom, so if you'll excuse me then.

Hey, hey, hey, a door just crossed my mind.

If you really need protection over at the temple, I think I know where I can

you a couple of young Jewish guys, you know? And they'll come over with the...

Mr.

Bunker, we're trying to avoid violence.

It's just a thought, you know? It's just a thought.

Listen, I'll see you soon, huh?

Rabbi, in the meantime, as Jewish people say, shaboom.

Well, if you're sure you want them, I'll go to work on them for you.

Thank you.

Okay, copies on me. Okay,

our first meeting is Friday morning.

Yes. Service is Friday night. No. No.

Yes.

Thank you. All right, see you.

Hey, the paper says Regan is solving two of the toughest problems.

The federal budget and Frank Sinatra.

Why don't you read a real newspaper for a change?

This paper's plenty real. You know, they got a mob of reporters swarming all

over the earth like ants, finding out the most interesting facts.

And here's one right here. Look at this.

Here's a kangaroo down in Australia. He saved a little girl just like you from

drowning. You believed that?

Well, there it is.

There's the kid, all dripping wet, making her statement to the press from

out of the pouch of the kangaroo.

I'll get it. I'll get it. You'll get it.

Call me Uncle Murray.

Who is it?

Murray.

Hi. Hello, sweetheart.

Are you ready to go to temple?

Yeah, I just want to get on my coat.

I want to get there early to get a seat next to old Mr. Vickers.

Amy Bloom says that every time he dobbins...

You're too painful.

Now, that's not funny.

It is when he says, why?

Hello, Miss Kent.

Oh, hi, Mr. Klein.

Well, Arch.

Arch, we had our first committee meeting this morning. Well, I don't think we

ought to talk very much. You know, I think I'm getting a near right here, you

know. Well, let me tell you, we were organizing a rally, and I'd like you to

reconsider your joining.

Murray, I told you before, this thing don't concern me. Yes, but it concerns

Stephanie. Will you let me take care of the kid, huh?

What do you think I'm asking you to do? Look, already I've come up to the next

meeting. See what we're talking about. Murray, please, will you please quit

bugging me to go up there, huh?

Don't you know what the rabbi was getting at? He's saying that you as a

Christian could invite other Christians in to join. You would be setting a good

example. I can't.

What are you two arguing about now?

I want Archie to get involved with the temple.

I'm telling him that stirring up all this ain't gonna do no good, you know.

you blow up a fire, it'll never die out. It's like bigotry. You forget about it,

it'll go away.

That's ridiculous.

Huh?

Bigotry doesn't go away. You gotta fight it.

Oh, what do you know about us?

Please, will the two of you just give me a little peace? I've got a half an hour

before I've got to go to work.

I'm ready.

Okay, let's go.

Get over here and give me a kiss goodbye.

Goodbye. Goodbye, Mrs. Camden. Bye, Mrs. Camden. Bye.

Arch, I want you to think about it. You hear me?

Think about it. I've got better things to do with my mind than think.

Now, don't be giving me them looks.

You want to do something, get me a beer.

I told you yesterday, I'm not buying anymore.

Ho, ho, ho, ho. And how come we made that decision?

Just look at your belly.

I'm telling you, Mr. Van Rensselaer, it's really depressing.

I wind up... spending 50 bucks for only two bags of groceries.

Ah, don't be always crabbing about prices there, will you, Harry?

Listen, Mr. Regan's running a businessman's government there, and

knows that businessmen want to bring prices down.

Arch, you're a man of faith.

Yes, sir. Faith, I am.

And faith is what this country needs nowadays, not questions, questions,

questions all the time. I'm telling you, everything's going to be all right.

Hiya, fellas.

Hiya, Barney.

Hi, Barney. Yeah, what's new?

Oh, there's a lot of excitement down there at the temple.

At the temple? What's going on?

I don't know. There's fire trucks, cops' cars all over the place.

Murray and the kid are at the temple.

Oh, I better get over there right away.

Hey, Barney.

Did it look bad?

It didn't look good.

Seen a lot of them.

Setting fires in trash cans.

At least no one was hurt.

Well, this time we've got a good chance of catching these guys.

Lady got their license number.

In the meantime, there are some security measures you can take around here.

Here you go, Steph.

Here you go.

Why do people do this?

Why?

Well...

Stephanie, we've been trying to find the answer to that for 5 ,000 years.

We haven't found the answer yet.

Is it ever going to stop?

Sure.

They'll stop when we all go away.

When we disappear from the face of the earth.

I'm not going to do that.

Neither am I.

Let me... Wait a minute.

Yes, I am a member of the temple. Hello, Lucas.

Are you all right? It's all right, Arch. It's all right.

What the hell happened here?

You'll see what happened. Now, are you going to do anything about it? This is a

very serious thing. I'm going to take some action. I'm glad, Mr. Bunker.

I'll take my kid right out of the temple.

No, Uncle Archie.

Yes, yes, you was lucky this time. You might not be so lucky the next time.

But I'm not afraid of anything.

Well, that's because you're too young and dumb to be scared.

I'll be scared for you. Come on. Wait a minute. Wait a minute now.

You can't do this.

Will you let me take care of my kid here? Just a second now. Stephanie needs

be here.

Murray, will you mind your own damn business? Come on. Wait a minute. Step,

step. We're getting out of here. We ain't coming back.

George, I have to go to temple.

No, you don't have to. You know what I mean? You can pray any place.

God is everywhere.

You know that.

I mean, he's in the temple, and he's in the houses, and he's in the street, and

he's with us all the time, honey, with us all the time. He sees what I'm doing,

and he agrees with me.

come you win.

Keep your eyes on him, Harry.

I'm going for the night, Harry.

Hey, did you tell Arch? He said he was leaving himself soon. You tell him.

Is he still mad?

I haven't heard a polite conversation around here in three days.

Hey, Murray, that painter you hide, you know, he painted shut the windows in

both of the johns there, and that means nowhere, and you know what that means.

Wait a minute. You're supposed to close the jam tonight.

There's something important to do.

What's more important than business?

I have a meeting at the temple.

Oh, oh, yeah. Well, all right. You can go to that.

Thanks a lot.

What is with him?

When the hell is he going to take me out of a deep freeze?

Don't worry, Arch. You made the right decision.

That temple's too dangerous to be around.

Would you tell him that?

I mean, you know, Barney, I'm just trying to protect my kids.

I agree with you completely. Look, I had to take Rusty out of obedience school.

Those nasty Dobermans kept pushing him around, stealing his rubber bone.

How can you compare what happened at the temple to your dog?

It's the same thing exactly.

The Dobermans didn't like Rusty because he wasn't a Doberman.

Right, Arch?

You're a dope, Barney.

Nevertheless.

Have you decided what to do about Steffi's Hebrew school?

Yeah, I'm going to do the only thing I can do. Get a Hebrew teacher to come

to the house there. I'll call up Rabinowitz and Rabinowitz and

and in -laws and all of them.

But they're lawyers.

I know that.

See, with a family that big, if they didn't have a rabbi in there, it'd be a

sin.

Good thinking.

Boy, I've got to go home and take Rusty out.

Stay with him for a change. I won't make any difference.

Rusty was born free.

It's kind of nice, Mr. Van Aretten, you know.

Your old pals, they see you in the jam there and they come up with something

appropriate.

Well, what do you say, what do you say, huh?

What for the road, huh? All right, thanks, Arch.

Oh, thanks.

We've known each other a long time, haven't we? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, a

of boozes went under the hill, you know?

And I thought I knew you pretty well, but I never thought you were this

Mr. Van La, you and me are supposed to be pals. Why are you calling me stupid?

But you are. You're stupid.

You fell right into the trap.

What trap?

Those bums that vandalized the temple.

But you did just what they wanted.

I don't know what you're talking about.

You left the temple.

If everyone stays away, the temple would be closed.

Well, don't worry about that. Everybody ain't gonna do that.

If they were like you, they would.

Oh, come on, Willie. You know what it's all about. I'm just trying to protect my

little girl.

What you're doing is showing Stephanie that it's better to run away from a

problem than to face it. Between you and me, it ain't our problem.

The First Amendment is everyone's problem.

The First Amendment? We ain't got that no more.

It's forgotten, but not gone.

What if these bums see that they can close down the temples?

Next, they'll go after the churches.

And after that, maybe they'll go after some schools they don't like. And the

newspapers. Oh, come on, come on. You're exaggerating the thing, ain't you?

There's a saying.

They came for the black people. I wasn't black, so I didn't speak up.

They came for the Jews. I wasn't Jewish, so I didn't speak up.

They came for the Catholics.

I wasn't Catholic, so I didn't speak up.

Then they came for me.

And there was nobody left to speak up.

I...

Mighty

and reverent and exalted God, Thou bestoweth loving kindness and possesseth

things. Amen.

I want to thank you for coming tonight. We all know how important this is.

Before we start, a few words from our president, Mr. Meyer.

Thank you, Rabbi.

I want you all to know that I've been working on our new security measures for

the last three days and nights.

We've increased our outside lighting.

We have hired security guards.

and a new alarm system will be installed.

We do not expect a thing of this kind to happen again.

Please, God.

Mr. Klein, did you want to say something?

Yes, I do. I just want to say that protecting ourselves is just not enough.

We have to make sure that this does not happen again to anyone.

And we have to get to other churches, other temples, the community leaders to

become involved.

Now. I agree.

Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Klein.

What we need are volunteers to canvass the neighborhood and let everyone know

what's going on. If you would call out your names and tell me what days you're

available, please.

Phil Kirschbaum.

Tuesdays. Phil.

Larry Klein, Wednesdays.

Doreen Costell, Fridays.

Bruce Gans, Tuesdays. Dr. Gans, Tuesdays.

Have you got Thursday open there? You could put Archie Parker.

Archie Bunker.

Thursdays. Bumps don't make a big thing.

Oh, hey, Schwartz. How are you? Gee, somebody told me you were...

What is she?

Mr.

Meyer, our president.

Mr. Bunker. Oh, yeah, yeah, your home furnishings. No, fine fur.

That's it.

The response is very encouraging.

Now, the best time to canvass is in the evenings when people are at home.