Dave’s Gone By Skit (8/8/2026): STORYTIME – Secrets of the Seashore

Dave reads Carron Brown’s “Secrets of the Seashore”

This segment aired Aug. 8, 2026 as part of episode #1044 of the “Dave’s Gone By” video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz. Full episodes also available on youtube, Facebook (davesgoneby), Spotify, and on DavesGoneBy.com. 

All content (c)2026 TotalTheater Productions.                         

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Dave’s Gone By Skit (8/8/2026): NON-GREELEY TIMES

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Ridiculous news stories from around the world!

This segment aired Aug. 8, 2026 as part of episode #1044 of the “Dave’s Gone By” video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

Full episodes also available on youtube, Facebook (davesgoneby), Spotify, and on DavesGoneBy.com. All content (c)2026 TotalTheater Productions.

More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com

INDEX – Dave’s Gone By Skits – List & Links

Hi folks! Here, listed chronologically, are the archives of skits & sketches performed on DAVE’S GONE BY.

Aug. 8, 2026: Non-Greeley Times
Non-Greeley Times / Archive.org / youtube

Aug. 8, 2026: StoryTime: Secrets of the Seashore
Secrets of the Seashore / Secrets of the Seashore / youtube

Aug. 1, 2026: StoryTime: Rabbi Sol Solomon reads “I Like Your Chutzpah”
youtube

July 25, 2026: StoryTime: Rabbi Sol Solomon reads “Have You Filled a Bucket Today?”
Have You Filled a Bucket Today? / Archive.org / youtube

July 18, 2026: StoryTime: Rabbi Sol Solomon reads “My Life as an Asthmanaut”
My Life as an Asthmanaut / YouTube

July 11, 2026: StoryTime: Rabbi Sol Solomon reads “God, I Feel Sad”
God, I Feel Sad / Archive.org / YouTube

July 4, 2026: StoryTime: Rabbi Sol Solomon reads “Who Dances With Dragons?”
Who Dances with Dragons? / YouTube

May 30, 2026: StoryTime: Rabbi Sol Solomon shares an A.I. rap and reads Miriam and her Dancing Shoes
Miriam and her Dancing Shoes / youtube

April 25, 2026: StoryTime: The Pet Potato
The Pet Potato / Archive.org / youtube

April 11, 2026: StoryTime: Potato Pants
Potato Pants / Archive.org / youtube

April 4, 2026: StoryTime: Rabbi Sol Solomon reads Jacob and Bunny
Jacob and Bunny / youtube

April 4, 2026: Greeley Times
Greeley Times / Archive.org / youtube

March 28, 2026: StoryTime: Rabbi Sol Solomon reads The Story of Baby Moses
The Story of Baby Moses / Archive.org / youtube

March 21, 2026: StoryTime: Rabbi Sol Solomon reads A Purr-fect Passover
A Purr-fect Passover / Archive.org / youtube

March 14, 2026: StoryTime: The Luck of the Irish
The Luck of the Irish / on youtube

Feb. 28, 2026: StoryTime: The Essential Compendium of Dad Jokes
The Essential Compendium of Dad Jokes / Archive.org / youtube

Feb. 21, 2026: StoryTime: Polar Bear’s Underwear
Polar Bear’s Underwear / youtube

Jan. 31, 2026: StoryTime: Rabbi Sol Solomon Reads Rudy Garcia-Tolson Biography
Rudy Garcia-Tolson Biography / Archive.org

Jan. 24, 2026: StoryTime: Rabbi Solomon Reads Exploring Water and the Ocean
Exploring Water / youtube

Jan. 17, 2026: StoryTime: First Peek-a-Flap Potty and Time IBD
First Peek-a-Flap… / youtube

Jan. 17, 2026: Greeley Times
Greeley Times / youtube

Jan. 10, 2026: StoryTime with Rabbi Sol Solomon: Feminist Press Spring-Fall 2025 Catalogue
StoryTime: Feminist Press Spring-Fall 2025 / Archive.org / youtube

Nov. 22, 2025: StoryTime with Rabbi Sol Solomon: The Pout-Pout Fish
StoryTime: The Pout-Pout Fish / youtube

Nov. 1, 2025: StoryTime with Rabbi Sol Solomon: Penrod’s Pants
StoryTime: Penrod’s Pants / youtube

Oct. 25, 2025: StoryTime with Rabbi Sol Solomon: A is for Activist
youtube

July 5, 2025: StoryTime: A History of Underwear with Professor Chicken
youtube

June 28, 2025: StoryTime: Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva
StoryTime: Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva / youtube

March 8, 2025: Dave’s Big Dictionary – Dry Dock
Dry Dock / youtube

Feb. 22, 2025: Dave’s Big Dictionary – Enema
youtube

Nov. 16, 2024: StoryTime with Rabbi Sol Solomon: Bagel in Love
Subject: Rabbi Sol reads Natasha Wing’s children’s book, Bagel in Love.
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April 23, 2022: No Show
Subject: On vacation, Dave greets viewers with a no-show-today mini-show.
—> https://davesgoneby.net/?p=29976

April 16, 2022: Old Gilbert
Subject: Dave chats with an old “Gilbert Gottfried” about his life.
—> https://davesgoneby.net/?p=29913

November 20, 2021: Three Percent
Subject: Mischa Dani Goodman performs Dave’s short solo comedy as part of The PlayGround Experiment’s Faces of America Monologue Festival.
—> https://davesgoneby.net/?p=27740

November 13, 2021: Rabbi Sol Solomon Attends a Bat Mitzvah
Subject: Rabbi Sol chats with guests at the Bat Mitzvah of Dave’s cousin, Logan Sheflin.
—> https://davesgoneby.net/?p=27652

July 11, 2020: Dave’s Gone Canceling #2 – Quick Draw McGraw
Subject: With America gone cancel-culture happy, Dave selects a target: cartoon character Quick Draw McGraw
—> https://davesgoneby.net/?p=27784

June 27, 2020: Dave’s Gone Canceling #1 – Joni Mitchell
Subject: With America gone cancel-culture happy, Dave selects a target: Joni Mitchell.
—> https://davesgoneby.net/?p=27749

April 25, 2020: Rabbi Sol Solomon Reads Shakespeare’s Sonnet #30
Subject: Rabbi Sol takes part in Irondale Ensemble’s virtual Shakespeare Sonnet Marathon.
—> https://davesgoneby.net/?p=19629

Feb. 8, 2014: Bob Dylan for WaxVac
Subject: An advertisement: Bob Dylan for WaxVac ear cleaner.
—> https://davesgoneby.net/?p=9253

Aug. 3, 2013: Weiner for Mayor
Subject: Anthony Weiner’s weiner runs for mayor against the very man who made him.
—> https://davesgoneby.net/?p=9489

March 12, 2006: Blarney O’Bunions
Subject: A public service announcement about drinking and driving on St. Patrick’s Day.
—> https://davesgoneby.net/?p=9248

Feb. 5, 2006: Hermann Glogauer on Football
Subject: A look at football from a very, very, very old man.
—> https://davesgoneby.net/?p=9365

Jan. 22, 2006: Buttboink Mountain
Subject: A landmark film about two men doing manly things. (Featuring guest voice: Jeff Goodman)
—> https://davesgoneby.net/?p=9259

Aug. 11, 2005: Homo Hendrix
Subject: Gay icon Peter Fitzgerald weighs in an a biography of Jimi Hendrix that questions his sexuality.
—> https://davesgoneby.net/?p=9370

July 28, 2005: So You Wanna be a Terrorist
Subject: A game show for budding enemies of mankind.
—> https://davesgoneby.net/?p=9456

Dec. 2, 2004: Fiddler is a Pouf
Subject: Peter Fitzgerald looks at Fiddler in a gay way.
—> https://davesgoneby.net/?p=9317

Nov. 11, 2004: Javier Magruder
Subject: A patriotic skit of sorts.
—> https://davesgoneby.net/?p=9382

Aug. 19, 2004: McGreevey
Subject: Gay activist Peter Fitzgerald discusses the political missteps of New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey.
—> https://davesgoneby.net/?p=9406

July 29, 2004: Handyman Yoni on Caulk
Subject: Handyman Yoni explains the importance of caulk.
—> https://davesgoneby.net/?p=9354

July 8, 2004: Apocalypse Rumsfeld
Subject: An offensive look at the Secretary of Defense.
—> https://davesgoneby.net/?p=9237

June 17, 2004: Baghdad Elections
Democracy comes to no man’s land. (featuring guest voice Joe Salzone)
—> https://davesgoneby.net/?p=9243

(May 20, 2004): Chez Berg
Recommendations on how Arab terrorists can make their deeds more palatable to the West. (featuring guest voice Jeff Goodman)
—> Full Episode

(Feb. 9, 2004): Valentine’s Day with Rabbi Sol Solomon
The great Rabbi Sol Solomon offers his thoughts on Valentine’s Day and takes phone calls from listeners Esther and Philip.
—> Full Episode

(Dec. 1, 2003): Woody’s Analyst
Dave imagines a conversation between Woody Allen and his therapist.
—> Full Episode

(Nov. 24, 2003): Michael Jackson
Joe Salzone interviews controversial pop legend Michael Jackson.
—> Full Episode

(Sept. 22, 2003): Folk Music
Professor Yoni Huttenanni explains folk music.
Listen / Full Episode

(Sept. 22, 2003): Long Island Haiku
Listen / Full Episode

(Sept. 22, 2003): A Suburban Home Companion
If Minnesota can have a radio home companion, why not suburban Long Island?
Listen / Full Episode

(July 20, 2003): Well, Well, Weller
Radio host Joe Salzone interviews Russell Weller,* the 86-year-old man whose Buick LeSabre plowed into 60 people at a Santa Monica Farmer’s Market.
Listen / Full Episode

(June 29, 2003): Happy And
Gay activist Peter Fitzgerald on Gay Pride Day.
Listen / Full Episode

(March 30, 2003): Luther Zizland
The thoughts of a U.S. Army private sent overseas to where they don’t like us.
Listen / Full Episode

(March 16, 2003): The Story of Seamus (The Urine Man)
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On a trip to Ireland, Dave and his wife encounter a legend who inspires Dave’s song, “Seamus, the Urine Man.”

(Feb. 2, 2003): Groundhogs
A look at the life of groundhogs on their special day. (guest voice: Jeff Goodman)
Listen / Full Episode

(Jan. 26, 2003): Missile Hunter
The dangerous job of Steve Merwin, Missile Hunter.
Listen / Full Episode

(Jan. 12, 2003): Cleola Bevers
Radio host Joe Salzone interviews an old acquaintance of Martin Luther King, Cleola Bevers.
Listen / Full Episode

(Dec. 22, 2002): Lady Miss Ida Mae Roosevelt’s Christmas Broadcast 1954
Dave unearths a lost audio tape of early Long Island farm broadcaster Lady Miss Ida Mae Roosevelt.
Listen / Full Episode

(Dec. 15, 2002): Thanks a Lott
Senator Trent Lott offers an apology for his racially insensitive praise of Strom Thurmond.
Listen / Full Episode

(Dec. 8, 2002): Wrong Island Cablevision
A commercial for the wonders of Cablevision’s service and programming.
Listen / Full Episode

(Dec. 8, 2002): Cablevision Poem
Dave dedicates a poem to his cable TV provider.
Listen / Full Episode

(Dec. 1, 2002): Uninsurance – Christopher Reeve
An insurance company calls actor Christopher Reeve to notify him of a policy change.
Listen / Full Episode

(Dec. 1, 2002): Uninsurance – Run DMC
An insurance company calls Run DMC to notify them of a policy change.
Listen / Full Episode

Nov. 24, 2002: The Dreidel Game
Rabbi Sol Solomon plays the Chanukah dreidel game with guest Rabbi Jeff Rothenberg
Listen / Full Episode

Nov. 24, 2002: News for Jews
Rabbi Sol Solomon offers a special edition of the News Gone By segment — news of the week from his uniquely Jewish perspective.
Listen / Full Episode

Nov. 17, 2002: It’s Been Great, It’s Bin Laden
Dave plays the latest tape from international fugitive Osama Bin Laden.
Listen / Full Episode

Nov. 3, 2002: Peter Byfield
Dave plays a paid political announcement from a non-molesting candidate.
Listen / Full Episode

Nov. 3, 2002: The Giving Chimp
Subject: Dave reads an early (and justly rejected) draft of Shel Silverstein’s famous story, “The Giving Tree,” titled “The Giving Chimp.”
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Oct. 27, 2002: Pre-Tampered Yummies
Subject: A Halloween advertisement for candy that’s extra-convenient.
—> https://davesgoneby.net/?p=9432

Oct. 27, 2002: Trick or Treat
Subject: A woman faces the worst kind of Halloween horror. (featuring guest voice: Karen Young).
—> https://davesgoneby.net/?p=9471
—> Full Episode

Oct. 20, 2002: Chief Moist Elk
Subject: Native-American Chief Moist Elk offers his thoughts on America’s history with smallpox.
—> https://davesgoneby.net/?p=9300
—> Full Episode

Oct. 20, 2002: The Puff Sullivan Letter
Subject: Taking a cue from Sullivan Ballou, Dave reads the modern wartime missive, The Puff Sullivan Letter.
—> https://davesgoneby.net/?p=9439

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Dave’s Gone By Skit (8/1/2026): STORYTIME – Rabbi Sol Solomon reads “I Like Your Chutzpah” 

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For this week’s StoryTime segment on Dave’s Gone By, Rabbi Sol Solomon reads Suzy Ultman’s “I Like Your Chutzpah”

This segment aired Aug. 1, 2026 as part of episode #1043 of the “Dave’s Gone By” video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz. Full episodes also available on youtube, Facebook (davesgoneby), and on DavesGoneBy.com. 

All content (c)2026 TotalTheater Productions. 

More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com

Dave’s Gone By Skit (7/25/2026): STORYTIME – Rabbi Sol Solomon reads “Have You Filled a Bucket Today?” 

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Dave’s Gone By Skit (7/25/2026): STORYTIME – Rabbi Sol Solomon reads “Have You Filled a Bucket Today?”   

For this week’s StoryTime segment on Dave’s Gone By, Rabbi Sol Solomon reads Carol McCloud’s “Have You Filled a Bucket Today?”

This segment aired July 25, 2026 as part of episode #1042 of the “Dave’s Gone By” video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz. Full episodes also available on youtube, Facebook (davesgoneby), and on DavesGoneBy.com. 

All content (c)2026 TotalTheater Productions. 

More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com

Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #212 (7/25/2026): JIMOTHY

Subject: Rabbi Sol reflects on what we can learn from a viral raccoon.

This Rabbinical Reflection first aired July 25, 2026 on the “Dave’s Gone By” video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz. 

Rabbi Sol’s Rabbinical Reflections air on the long-running Dave’s Gone By program (davesgoneby.com) and are also archived on the Rebbe’s blog, Shalomdammit.com.

Rabbi Sol is also the creator of the stage shows, “Shalom Dammit! An Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon” and “Hate Speech…With Love: Another Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon.”

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RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #212 (7/25/2026): Jimothy

(c)2026 David Lefkowitz. airs July 25, 2026 on Dave’s Gone By.  

Shalom, Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon, with a Rabbinical Reflection for late July 2026.

What happy things occurred this year to take our minds off the miserable state of the world? The New York Knicks? America doing okeedoke in FIFA? Travis Kelce making an honest woman of Taylor Swift? Democrats magically realizing that a lech with a Nazi tattoo might not be the best Senatorial candidate – even for progressives? I mean, they wanted a socialist, but a National Socialist?

All of those were bright spots in a brown year. The latest distraction from doomsday may not be the most dramatic, but it is the cutest. Last week on social media, a raccoon lumbering across backyards in Seattle, went viral. In fact, people thought the animal was viral because he was a mess. A hunchback with a foreshortened spine, the beast – lovingly nicknamed “Jimothy” – looked like a cross between a squirrel and a midget gorilla. And yet, although goofy looking, this rodent with a pudgy body and a stubby tail was doing everything raccoons normally do – sneaking around, foraging, forcing suburbanites to double bag their garbage. 

And here lies the conundrum of Jimothy. Raccoons are viewed as a nuisance. They’re beautiful creatures, but in your backyard or your garage or, God forbid, your chimney, that’s a call to pest control. And don’t let children go near them `cause they could be rabid. Your garden-variety raccoon is the last thing you want to see in your garden. 

Except when you have an abnormal, deformed, genetically fucked-up raccoon – then it’s love. Everywhere, Jimothy t-shirts, tattoos, murals, glass figurines! The University of Washington already has a mascot so they couldn’t adopt him, so they just gave him an honorary doctorate. (Not really, but check their Instagram.)

So, yes, people are besotted with this trash panda because he’s beating the odds. He’s living his best raccoon life despite being shaped like Danny DeVito. Jimothy’s deformity, his homeliness – which would ordinarily set off a Darwinian “ugh” – instead prompts a desire to mother and protect him.

So this got me thinking (which with me is always dangerous). What can Jews learn from Jimothy? I realize our problem is we’ve become too normal. We’re so assimilated, so taken for granted for blending in, people feel no guilt for hating us. Jews hold major positions in law, entertainment, medicine, technology. We have physically gorgeous actors and actresses on TV and in movies. And we may not own all the banks, but we probably own the buildings the banks are in.

Despite our tiny population, Jews are major players in every aspect of the world stage, which gives everyone from good-ol’-boy bigots to social-justice sophomores carte blanche to harangue us with insults, falsehoods, and blame. When Israel hit back after October 7th, the world went, “What??? The underdog isn’t supposed to take brutal revenge! If you’re not cowering in the corner, you must be the bad guys. Not to mention Christ killers.” 

So, how do we Jews counteract this latest wave of anti-us-ism? Why not go the Jimothy route? Instead of being attractive, educated, erudite, cultural, influential, and basically normal, maybe it’s time for Jews to lean into the old stereotypes. Lose the attributes that have helped us pass – and surpass. 

We all want to be Paul Newman, but it’s safer to be Arnold Stang. Why? People who fear commonplace raccoons adore Jimothy because he’s a harmless freak. Maybe we Jews should grow our noses out, run around with scraggly beards and smelly old coats, cough and limp and crap ourselves, and get partial lobotomies to make us retarded. And then we approach our enemies, with Sarah McLachlan music playing behind us, and say (retarded voice), “Shalom! Look how helpless and wretched we are. Won’t you let us live in peace in our own widdle country? Think of us as the Moo Deng of the Middle East.”

Now, granted. That approach might backfire. Zohran Mamdani might round up all the New York Hebes and throw `em in zoos. But just maybe, if we can convince our foes to view us as pathetic Jimothies instead of powerful Jews, perhaps we’ll dodge the next pogrom.

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

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Dave’s Gone By Skit (7/18/2026): STORYTIME – Rabbi Sol Solomon reads “My Life as an Asthmanaut”   

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For this week’s StoryTime segment on Dave’s Gone By, Rabbi Sol Solomon reads Jake Lockett’s “My Life as an Asthmanaut” 

This segment aired July 11, 2026 as part of episode #1040 of the “Dave’s Gone By” video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz. Full episodes also available on youtube, Facebook (davesgoneby), and on DavesGoneBy.com. 

All content (c)2026 TotalTheater Productions.                                                   

More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com

Dave’s Gone By Skit (7/11/2026): STORYTIME – Rabbi Sol Solomon reads “God, I Feel Sad”  

For this week’s StoryTime segment on Dave’s Gone By, Rabbi Sol Solomon reads Michelle Nietert and Tama Fortner’s “God, I Feel Sad”

This segment aired July 11, 2026 as part of episode #1040 of the “Dave’s Gone By” video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz. Full episodes also available on youtube, Facebook (davesgoneby), and on DavesGoneBy.com. 

All content (c)2026 TotalTheater Productions.                                                   

More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com

Dave’s Gone By Skit: RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #211 (6/27/2026): Bad Coffee

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Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #211 (6/27/2026): BAD COFFEE

Subject: Rabbi Sol reflects on a Brooklyn coffee shop’s anti-Semitism.

This Rabbinical Reflection first aired June 27, 2026 on the “Dave’s Gone By” video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz. 

Rabbi Sol’s Rabbinical Reflections air on the long-running Dave’s Gone By program (davesgoneby.com) and are also archived on the Rebbe’s blog, Shalomdammit.com.

Rabbi Sol is also the creator of the stage shows, “Shalom Dammit! An Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon” and “Hate Speech…With Love: Another Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon.”

© 2026 TotalTheater Productions. All Rights Reserved.

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RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #211 (6/27/2026): Bad Coffee  

(c)2026 David Lefkowitz. airs June 27, 2026 on Dave’s Gone By.  

Shalom, Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon, with a Rabbinical Reflection for the end of June 2026.

What the hell has happened to coffee? It wasn’t so long ago that if you wanted a morning brew in New York, there’d be a guy in a cart, and for a buck he’d hand you a fresh Folger’s, with cream and two sugars, napkins, a donut, and a tip on the third race at Belmont. Okay, maybe that was so long ago. For decades we’ve grown inured to the Starbucking of America. Jackie Mason said it best when he warned us, “Coffee in a coffee shop? Sixty cents, with cream. At Starbucks, it’s Cafe Latte: 3.50. Each French word costs another four dollars. No tables, no chairs, no busboy, you have to clean up — and it’s burnt coffee. If you get burnt coffee at a coffee shop, you call a cop. But when it’s burnt at Starbucks, it’s a blend.” 

But at least Starbucks, which became a global powerhouse when led by a proudly Jewish CEO, stays mostly out of politics. Three years ago some of the unionized workers got mouthy about Gaza, but that simply triggered the most Jewish result of all: competing lawsuits. Since then, Starbucks has been extremely careful to say, “We don’t support Israel; we don’t not support Israel. We have stores all over Arabia, but the terrorists don’t get gift cards.” Like Switzerland in World War II, Starbucks’s neutrality is disingenuous and cowardly, but at least they didn’t join the other side like the French and Italians.

Nowadays, however, self-righteous identity politics is everything. It’s not enough to sell an eight-dollar mochaccino to some Gen Z schmuck; you also have to treat them to your Instagram-based musings on social justice. It shouldn’t surprise us that coffee pourers think they’re experts on decolonization. The whole point of coffee is de-colonizing – getting the crap out of our colons. 

But a different kind of crap is being served up at one java shop in Brooklyn: Poetica Coffee, which is run by a jerk named Parviz Mukhamadkulov – and I wish this Mohammedan would cool off. Poetica refused to serve a pro-Israel Jewish politician. The store wrote on its official Facebook page, “Hey Congressman Dan Goldman. Do you see how our coffee doesn’t taste like genocide juice? Here at Poetica we don’t serve genocide enablers. We issued you a refund – your money’s probably coming from AIPAC anyway. Don’t ever come to Poetica.” Unquote. Obviously, this Parviz guy is chock full of nuts. But he’s getting away with this garbage! Hordes of Brooklyn millennials who fancy themselves baby Nelson Mandelas are cheering this douche-nozzle  as he sells his rancid Robustas and gives only the Arabs Arabica. You gotta love a coffee shop that creams itself over equal rights while denying a customer . . . equal rights!

Tuesday’s primaries showed the New York Democratic party moving even further towards radical anti-Semitism, so Poetica’s perversion should not shock us. Still, the gall of this guy’s blatant Israel-bashing, that crosses way past altruism into straight-up Jew hate, can be met only with incredulity and rage. I am heartened by the counterprotestors who staged a pro-Israel, anti-Mamdani rally outside Poetica, telling those progressos to drown in their espressos. I am disheartened by Congressman Goldman losing in the primary to Jewish kapo Brad Lander, a bleeding-heart socialist who parrots all Hamas’s talking points about the “horrors” of Zionism. You know he’ll be getting free refills from the eyebrow-piercing crowd.

But the funniest part of all this – and none of this is funny – is that when Poetica refunded Dan Goldman’s cup of coffee and tip (because, yes, Jews do tip), he got back $9.82. That’s nearly ten dollars for heated brown water. And people pay it! 

So here’s my idea: the most expensive coffee in the world is called kopi luwak. That’s the one where an Asian cat called a  civet eats the coffee beans and then excretes them. Supposedly, the bowel movements taste fantastic with non-dairy creamer. Well, Parviz, let me go the civets one better. I will eat a dozen coffee beans then climb up on your counter and shit into your mouth and down your throat. The flavor will be rich, distinctive, and, if you have an enema handy, sustainable. Oh, sure, you might choke to death, and that would be poetic – and Poetica – justice. 

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

(c) 2026 TotalTheater. All rights reserved.

Dave’s Gone By Skit (5/30/2026): STORYTIME-Rabbi Sol Solomon Shares an A.I. Rap and Reads “Miriam and her Dancing Shoes”

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Dave’s Gone By Skit (5/30/2026): STORYTIME – Rabbi Sol Solomon shares an A.I. rap and reads “Miriam and her Dancing Shoes”

For this week’s StoryTime segment on Dave’s Gone By, Rabbi Sol Solomon reads a Jewish rap concocted for him by Artificial Intelligence and then reads Sandy Eisenberg Sasso’s “Miriam and her Dancing Shoes”

This segment aired April 25, 2026 as part of episode #1029 of the “Dave’s Gone By” video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz. Full episodes also available on youtube, Facebook (davesgoneby), and on DavesGoneBy.com. 

All content (c)2026 TotalTheater Productions.                                                   

More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com

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