Rabbi Bloom of the United Orthodox Synagogue was playing golf one Sunday when he meets three members of the Federation Reform Synagogue on the course. They talk and he invites them to come to his shul. Next Shabbos they make an appearance, but because they turn up some time after service began, all the main seats are filled. Several other latecomers were already seated on folding chairs.
Rabbi Bloom calls over the Shammas. “Moishe, please get three chairs for my reform friends in the back.”
Moishe is a bit deaf so he leans closer and says, “I beg your pardon, Rabbi?”
Rabbi Bloom again says, “Get three chairs for my reform friends in the back.”
Moishe was puzzled but as there was a lull in the service, he goes to the front of the shul and loudly announces, “The Rabbi says, ‘Give three cheers for my Reform friends in the back!'”
Credit: David Minkoff, A Word In Your Eye