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Old jokes by aging jokesters

By Nancy Shohet West

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  November 10, 2011

When did religion become so funny? Sam Hoffman, film producer and founder of the website “Old Jews Telling Jokes,’’ leads an interactive discussion on Jewish comedy at the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center in Newton this weekend, while monologist Seth Lepore performs his one-man show on his exploration of New Age spirituality at the Arlington Center for the Arts. Elsewhere, Saxonville is holding open studios, the Heritage Chorale performs Mendelssohn at Boston College, and a historian discusses slavery in the north at the Watertown Free Public Library.

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