So they each go into the woods, find a bear, and attempt to convert it.

Later they get together and the priest begins: “When I found the bear, I read to him from the Catechism and sprinkled him with holy water. Next week is his First Communion.”

“I found a bear by the stream,” says the minister,”and preached God’s holy word. The bear was so mesmerized that he let me baptize him.”

They both look down at the rabbi, who is lying on a hospital gurney in a full body cast.

“Looking back,” he says, “maybe I shouldn’t have started with the circumcision.”