Dave’s Gone By #405 (12/22/2012): APOCALYPSE NOT

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Here is the 405th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Dec. 22, 2012. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Dave celebrates the world surviving Mayan Doomsday with a Saturday Segue on Endtimes. Plus: Inside Broadway, News Gone By, Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on gun control, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (John Wesley Harding 45th anniversary).

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN
00:08:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Endtimes, part 1
00:49:30 Thanks & Sponsors
01:00:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
01:20:30 NEWS GONE BY
01:39:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’s RABBINICAL REFLECTION #50 – Gun Control
01:46:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (John Wesley Harding 45th Anniversary)
02:25:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Endtimes, part 2
02:49:30 DAVE SAYS BYE – Larry L. King
02:59:30 Thanks & Weather & Friends
03:05:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Dec. 22, 2012 Playlist: “The Last Night of the World” (09:00; Bruce Cockburn). “End of the World” (00:14:00; Herman’s Hermits). “The End has Begun” (00:17:00; Loudon Wainwright III). “Sweet Apocalypse” (00:21:00; Moby). “End” (Peter Case; 00:25:00). “(I’ll Love You) Till the End of the World” (00:28:30; Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds). “Time Waits for No One” (00:32:30; The Rolling Stones). “It’s Over” (00:39:00; Tom Waits). “Master of the House” (01:15:00; Les Miserables Broadway cast). “Jet Song” (01:24:00; West Side Story; film soundtrack). “Coffee Homeground” (01:32:00; Kate Bush). “John Wesley Harding” (01:50:00) & “As I Walked Out One Morning” (01:53:00; Bob Dylan). “I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine” (01:56:00; John Doe). “All Along the Watchtower” (01:59:00; Bryan Ferry). “Dear Landlord” (02:02:30; Joan Baez). “I Pity the Poor Immigrant” (02:05:30; Judy Collins). “Wicked Messenger” (02:10:00; The Black Keys). “I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight” (02:13:30; Barb Jungr). “I Found the End” (02:26:00; Broadcast). “It’s Over” (02:28:00; The Smiths). “It’s Over” (02:34:00; Aimee Mann). “Time Out from the World” (02:37:30; Goldfrapp). “The End” (02:42:30; The Doors). “The Galaxy Song” (02:44:30; “Monty Python’s Meaning of Life;” film soundtrack). “Hard Candy Christmas” (02:54:00; “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,” film soundtrack). “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” (03:06:30; R.E.M.).

Dylan’s John Wesley Harding
Larry L. King
gun control
Rabbi Sol Solomon

Dave’s Gone By Skit: RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #049 (12/16/2012): Molest We Forget

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RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #049 (12/16/2012): Molest We Forget

Aired December 15, 2012 on Dave’s Gone By. Youtube clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxQnpP0RbMI

Shalom Dammit!  This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of December 16th, 2012.

Oy! Happy end of Chanukah, everybody.  Why do I say that with such resignation and dispiritedness?  Because just when we need to be showing the world that Jews take a higher moral ground . . .  Just when we need to be reminding Christians that we’re not evil, we didn’t kill Jesus, we belong in the land of Israel because we earned and deserve it . . .  Just when we should show off that Jews are a model of the three L’s: Learning, Law and Lokshen kugel – the Orthodox community of Williamsburg Brooklyn displays the worst of the three I’s: Inhumanity, Insularity and I don’t know what the fuck is wrong with them.

By now you’ve no doubt heard about Rabbi Nechemya Weberman – a Jew, unfortunately, who was convicted of repeated sexual abuse of a young girl.  He’s facing 25 years in the slammer for making this shayna maydel act out porn films for him, give him oral sex, and buy things for him retail.  And this all started when she was just twelve years old.  My God, he used to burn her stomach with a cigarette lighter and then tell her to soothe it with peanut butter when she got home.  Peanut butter!  I mean, almond butter I understand, but peanut butter?!

I’m making jokes about all this because the truth is so goddamn horrible all you can do is laugh. This monster turned the girl’s parents against her and threatened to toss the whole family out of the religious order if she dared to come forward with her stories.  It wasn’t until she switched to a less religious school and started opening up to teachers and counselors there that the truth came out – because the truth always comes out – if not in this world, then the next.  If some sect is so tight-knit that a leader can get away with sexual abuse until the day he days, you can bet when he gets to the gates of heaven, Elijah’s up there going, “So, did you observe the Sabbath?”
“Oh yes, every week.”
“Did you give tzedakah to the poor?”
“Absolutely.  And I didn’t even do it for the tax deduction, I really meant it!”
“Did you keep all the kosher laws?”
“Are you kidding? I waited ten hours between having meat and milk – not six, ten!”
“Well, Rabbi, I see no reason not to open these gates and let you into paradise.  Welcome to – wait a second. Did you make 14-year-old girls masturbate you while you watched Amy Irving in “Yentl?”
“Well, I, uh – ”
“Did you make a teenage boy eat your shmekel and then warn him that if he tattled on you, God would throw him into the fires of hell?”
“Well, I, uh – ”
“Rabbi, you might wanna know, that boy was up here 30 years ago.  `Cause he killed himself when he was 17. Good news, though – he’s having a fantastic time.  He’s up on cloud nine playing X-box with Anne Frank.  You however . . . I hope you brought sunscreen.”

It should not take years or lifetimes to expose revolting behavior like this to the light.  Coverups are for dark circles under the eyes, not dark blotches on the soul.  And just when you thought the story of Rabbi Weberman couldn’t get any worse, it gets worse.  Another Rabbi, Nachum Rosenberg – who probably will be going to heaven, by the way – Rabbi Rosenberg is a longtime advocate for speaking out against abusers.  He’s been an oasis for girls and boys who have been subjected to the terrors of sexual assault and the even greater horrors of psychological suppression.  He’s been begging the Satmer community to stop sheltering the guilty, stop keeping the laws of America from touching – you should pardon the pun – from penetrating – you should pardon the pun – from affecting this insular Satmer sect.

But no good deed goes unpunished.  On his outspoken blog, Rabbi Rosenberg accused the owner of a local fish market of abusing young boys.  Now, this may or may not be true, and because this community resists legitimate investigations, finding out the truth can be harder than catching a squid in a butter tank.  But one day the Rabbi is strolling through his neighborhood when the son of the fishmarket owner comes up to him.  He’s holding a jar of liquid which turns out to be bleach – tosses the bleach in the Rabbi’s face and runs away.  Had he not washed his eyes very quickly after the incident, the Rebbe would have gone blind.  His shirts would have been really clean but his vision not so good.

Now, because this is the son of the accused, and everything on both sides is just allegation at this point, I will reserve judgment on the particulars of this incident.  However, it serves as an object lesson on what happens when you spend years sweeping landmines under the rug.  Eventually they start going off in every possible direction, hurting the innocent, the guilty and the just-plain fishy.

And it’s happening in this case because these tight cults want to do everything in-house.  No need for police intervention, no need to wash dirty tallises in public; they can monitor everything and keep the outside world out.  But do they self-govern?  Yes, exactly the way the Catholic church handles the scandals.  Got a pedophile priest?  Push him from parish to parish.  Exactly the way an American president reacts to a sexual boo-boo or a military blunder – deny, discredit, dismiss.  That’s way too much alliteration for one paragraph, and way, way too much lying and ducking responsibility on the part of people who should know better.

How sad that thanks to Rabbi Weberman, Rabbis will now be lumped in the same pile as pervo priests – even though, one hopes, and prays, the rotten apples make up just a teeny percentage of Orthodox orchard.

That said, when it comes to sexual misconduct in our community, it’s obvious this is just the tip of the iceberg.  And the Goldberg.  And the Kleinberg.  The Satmers, and every other sect, when dealing with sex, need to be diligent and transparent and not make excuses and exits for evil.

This is gonna get much bigger and uglier before it gets better.  So we have to urge the victims don’t be intimidated.  Don’t be brainwashed or shouted down. You have to stick it out, because if you don’t, some Rabbi’s gonna stick it out – and in.

This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, New York.

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (12/15/2012): LINDY S. HUDIS & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with fiction author Lindy S. Hudis (“Crashers,” “The S&M Club”)

Topics include: writing and filmmaking.

Segment originally aired Dec. 15, 2012 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com
More information on Rabbi Sol Solomon: http://www.shalomdammit.com

Dave’s Gone By #404 (12/15/2012): WINTERNSHIP

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Here is the 404th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Dec. 15, 2012. Info: Davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with author Lindy S. Hudis and offers his Rabbinical Reflection on “molest we forget.” Plus: Saturday Segues (Ravi Shankar, winter), Inside Broadway, News Gone By and Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (whales).

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guest: author Lindy S. Hudis

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN
00:08:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Ravi Shankar
00:37:00 NEWS GONE BY
00:47:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
01:00:00 Sponsors
01:09:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #49 (Molest We Forget)
01:17:00 DAVE SAYS BYE – Jenni Rivera
01:28:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Lindy S. Hudis
02:06:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (whales)
02:33:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Winter
03:04:30 Weather & Friends
03:09:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Dec. 15, 2012 Playlist: “Introduction to Indian Music” (00:13:30), “Supplication” (00:18:00), “Raag Khamaj” (w/ Anoushka Shankar; 00:21:00), “Tana Mana” (00:25:00) & “Shanti-Mantra (Reprise)” (03:14:30; Ravi Shankar). “Norwegian Wood” (00:28:00; The Beatles). “December” (00:30:00; Norah Jones). “When I See an Elephant Fly” (00:45:00; “Dumbo” (Disney film soundtrack). “Oh, What a Circus” (00:55:30; Evita 2012 Broadway cast w/ Ricky Martin). “La Papa sin Catsup” (01:17:00; Jenni Rivera). “Santa Quits” (01:24:00; Dave Lefkowitz). “Lindy” (02:03:00; “Helzapoppin'” film soundtrack). “Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream” (02:07:00), “Time Passes Slowly” (02:13:30), “My Back Pages” ({live 30th anniversary version w/ Eric Clapton, Neil Young, George Harrison, etc.} 02:16:00), “Lo and Behold” ({version 1}, 02:21:00) & “She’s Your Lover Now” (02:23:30; Bob Dylan). “He Came from the Mountain” (02:37:00; Bruce Cockburn). “The First Day of Winter” (Jenifer Jackson; 02:40:00). “Winter Lady” (02:43:00; Leonard Cohen). “Frozen Warnings” (Nico; 02:45:00). “Winter Song” (02:49:00; Yoko Ono). “Winter A Go-Go” (02:53:00; Yo La Tengo). “Winter Now” (02:56:00; Broadcast). “Winterlong” (02:59:00; Neil Young).

Lindy Hudis
Ravi Shankar
Malibu whale
winter
Rabbi Weberman
Jenni Rivera

Dave’s Gone By Skit: RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #48 (12/9/2012): Chanukah

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RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #48 (12/9/2012): Chanukah

Aired December 8, 2012 on Dave’s Gone By.  Youtube clip: http://youtu.be/E8lvJUkZOQs

Shalom Dammit!  This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of December 9th, 2012.

Happy Chanukah everybody!  What a joy to find ourselves lighting the menorah, spinning the dreidel, eating the latkes, and making believe we’re not jealous of the people across the street celebrating Christmas. December, the very fulcrum of winter, is the perfect time for a holiday that brings us all together for food and fun.  Actually, January would be better because December is still close to Thanksgiving and you have more football, but I’m not one to bitch.

To be honest, Chanukah is not the most important holiday.  Passover, when we got the hell out of Egypt, that was bigger.  Shavuot, where God gave us the Torah – that’s a big one, too. Yom Kippur, where we beg HaShem to forget what a bunch of schmucks we are, pretty major.  Chanukah merely celebrates a military victory. Jerusalem was under the control of Syrians and Greeks who forbade the practice of Judaism. Matisyahu – not the reggae, the rebel – Matisyahu and his family rebelled, killed a few people, and took to the hills for training. They came back as an army and forced the Greeks out of the Holy Land.

When Jews went to re-claim the great temple, they saw that it had been defiled.  Pigs were slaughtered on the altar. False idols were placed in positions of worship.  A giant screen was tuned to QVC. The Jews immediately set about purifying the synagogue.  And they probably also repainted a little because there was chipping and you could see the primer.  Anyhoo, they started to burn some ritual oil in the candelabra.  There was only a teeny bit left, so they figured it would burn for a day or two.  What a shock when that minuscule drop of oil stayed lit for eight full days. I had an uncle who stayed lit for ten days, but it took him a case of Jack Daniels to do it. Eight days was just long enough to re-consecrate the temple, long enough to make our children say, “Eh, it’s just chocolate money, but we get it for a week!”

What is the modern significance of Chanukah?  What do we learn from this Festival of Lights?  First of all, we learn that you can do almost anything if you put your mind to it.  One Jewish family defied the laws of the land and created a revolution.  Instead of bowing before the Greeks – because we all know, Greeks like it when people bend over – they triumphed as the Maccabees. “Mac” because they became the Syrians’ mac daddies; “bees” because they stung the enemy in the tuchas.

We also learn that miracles happen if you let a little faith go a long way.  Have you ever bought a lightbulb that was supposed to last a year, and a decade later, the thing’s still working? It happens. In the hands of HaShem, time is a malleable construct.  Sometimes, when I give a sermon, people tell me they look at their watch and it’s been twenty minutes – but it feels like seven hours. A miracle!

Most importantly, we learn from the Chanukah holiday that things can look as bleak and horrible as the schmutz on the bottom of a toaster oven.  But HaShem gives us the blessing of change. To quote Bob Dylan, “The wheel’s still in spin.” 2,200 years ago, the Temple was trashed and out of Jewish hands, and then, a week later, it’s ready for kosher catering. So when we look at the crisis in the middle east, or the fiscal cliff, or the music of Kid Rock, we have to say, “It’s all right.  The world turns, and nothing truly lasts forever. Except an Orthodox seder.”

But that’s a different holiday. This one is Chanukah with candles and dreidels and latkes and Adam Sandler and jelly donuts and, thanks to fracking, enough oil to last eight centuries.

Dreidel dreidel dreidel,
I made you out of plexiglass.
And if you don’t like Chanukah,
Then you can kiss my sexy ass.

This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, New York.

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (12/8/2012): JON GOODMAN

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Dave Lefkowitz chats with Jon Goodman, the son of novelty-record pioneer Dickie Goodman.

Topics include: Dickie Goodman, mash-ups, sampling and cut-in records.

Segment originally aired Dec. 8, 2012 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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More information on Rabbi Sol Solomon: http://www.shalomdammit.com

Dave’s Gone By #403 (12/8/2012): A GOODMAN IS HARD TO FIND

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Here is the 403rd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Dec. 8, 2012. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Dave chats with Jon Goodman, son of novelty-record pioneer Dickie Goodman. Plus: Inside Broadway, Saturday Segues (Dave Brubeck & Chanukah), the News Gone By, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (finals), and Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on Chanukah.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guest: biographer Jon Goodman

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN
00:08:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Dave Brubeck
00:37:30 INSIDE BROADWAY
01:01:00 Sponsors
01:09:00 GUEST: Jon Goodman
01:58:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (finals)
02:30:00 NEWS GONE BY
02:41:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #48 – Chanukah
02:53:30 Thanks & Friends
02:56:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Dec. 8, 2012 Playlist: “Theme from Elementals” (00:11:30), “Unsquare Dance” (00:14:30), “One Song” (00:16:30), “Blue Rondo a la Turk” (00:21:30), “Take Five” (00:28:00), “Thank You” (02:56:30; Dave Brubeck). “Sennett Song” (Chaplin 2012 Broadway cast). “On Campus” (01:06:30), “The Flying Saucer, Part 1” (01:21:00), “Mr. Jaws” (01:30:30), “Star Wars” (01:50:30) & “The Flying Saucer, Part 2” (01:54:00; Dickie Goodman). “Baby, I’m in the Mood for You” (01:59:00 ), “The Ballad of Donald White” (02:02:00), “Foot of Pride” (02:06:30), “Idiot Wind” ({live Hard Rain version}, 02:12:30) & “Final Theme” (02:22:30; Bob Dylan). “Cows with Guns” (02:36:30; Dana Lyons). “Maoz Tsuris” (02:46:00; Rabbi Sol Solomon). “Temple” (Jane Siberry). “The Dreidel Song” (02:50:00; The Groovebarbers). “Light a Candle” (02:51:30; Neil Young).

Jon Goodman
Dave Brubeck
Chanukah
Rabbi Sol Solomon

Dave’s Gone By Interview (12/1/2012): ROBERT HARLING

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Dave Lefkowitz interviews film director and “Steel Magnolias” playwright Robert Harling

Topics include: Steel Magnolias, theater.

This segment originally aired Dec. 1, 2012 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (12/1/2012): JOEY REYNOLDS

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Dave Lefkowitz chats with veteran radio personality Joey Reynolds

Topics include: Joey Reynolds’s career, shock jocks, modern radio.

Segment originally aired Dec. 1, 2012 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com
More information on Rabbi Sol Solomon: http://www.shalomdammit.com

Dave’s Gone By #402 (12/1/2012): JOEY DIVISION

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Here is the 402nd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Dec. 1, 2012. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Dave chats with Steel Magnolias author Robert Harling, and Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews radio legend Joey Reynolds. Plus: Inside Broadway, Bob Dylan – Sooner and Later (in search of…), and the News Gone By.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guest: radio personality Joey Reynolds, playwright Robert Harling

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN
00:11:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – December
00:28:30 Sponsors
00:32:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Joey Reynolds
01:27:30 INSIDE BROADWAY (news (01:28:00) & Queen Lear (01:33:30))
01:49:00 GUEST: Robert Harling
02:34:30 NEWS GONE BY
02:41:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (in search of…)
02:47:30 DAVE GOES OUT

Dec. 1, 2012 Playlist: “December” (00:12:00; Norah Jones). “Flowers in December” (00:15:00; Mazzy Star). “September Gurls” (00:19:30; Big Star). “A Long December” (00:22:30; Counting Crows). “Joey Reynolds Theme (00:31:00; The Four Seasons). “Rats in My Room” (01:25:00; Joey Reynolds & Danny Neaverth). “Sugar Magnolia” (02:33:30; Grateful Dead). “Oxford Town” (02:42:00), “Only a Pawn in their Game (02:43:30), “You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go” (02:48:00; Bob Dylan).

Joey Reynolds
Robert Harling
Lucy Peacock as Queen Lear

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