Bullwinkle: Watch me pull a rabbi out of my hat!
Rocky: That trick never works!
Fan mail from some gefilte fish?
“Pulling a ‘rabbi’ out of a hat” is a good way to describe this attempted trickery. The writer of this story is exhibiting the kind of desperation seen commonly amongst Jewish ‘Rats these days as they see their control over their “reservation” slipping away to a considerable extent.