Strange Beggar

Two beggars are sitting side by side on a street in Rome.
One has a cross in front of him; the other one the Star of David.
Many people go by and look at both beggars, but only put money
into the hat of the beggar sitting behind the cross.
A priest comes by, stops and watches throngs of people giving money
to the beggar behind the cross,
but none give to the beggar behind the Star of David.
Finally, the priest goes over to the beggar behind the Star of David and
says,
"My poor fellow, don't you understand?? This is a Catholic country, this city is the seed of Catholicism. People aren't going to give you money if you sit there with a Star of David in front of you, especially when you're sitting beside a beggar who has a cross. In fact, they would probably give to him just out of spite."
The beggar behind the 'Star of David' listened to the priest, turned to the other beggar with the cross and said:
"Moishe, look who's trying to teach the Goldstein brothers about marketing."

I'm sure it would be funny... if I understood it.

They're both Jewish but one of them is pretending to be catholic just so all the catholics who walk past will put money into the hat of the one they think is catholic in order to show their devotion to the catholic faith and to prove the Jew he is in the wrong faith. Therefore they have tricked all the catholics into giving them money which they will split between them.