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Dave’s Gone By Skit (9/12/2026): STORYTIME w/ Rabbi Sol Solomon – Apple Days

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Dave’s Gone By Skit (9/12/2026): STORYTIME w/ Rabbi Sol Solomon – Apple Days: A Rosh Hashanah Story

Rabbi Sol Solomon reads Allison Sarnoff Soffer’s “Apple Days: A Rosh Hashanah Story.”

This segment aired Sept. 12, 2026 as part of the 1049th “Dave’s Gone By” video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz. Full episodes also available on youtube, Facebook (davesgoneby), Spotify, and on DavesGoneBy.com.

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

Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #213 (9/11/2026): 25 YEARS

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Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #213 (9/11/2026): 25 YEARS

Subject: Rabbi Sol reflects on the 25th anniversary of 9/11.

This Rabbinical Reflection first aired Sept. 12, 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.”

RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #213 (9/11/2026): 25 Years

Shalom, Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon, with a Rabbinical Reflection for September 11th, 2026.

Has it really been a quarter century since the attacks of 9/11? Twenty-five years gone since a handful of psycho terrorists brought New York to a cataclysmic reckoning with the Arab world.

It can’t be that long ago. It feels like it happened before Covid but after the last episode of Breaking Bad. Now, September 11th can seem recent because so many horrible side effects are still with us. You can never feel 100 percent safe in downtown New York. Only a year ago did we stop taking off our shoes to get on an airplane. And any time a bunch of people gather in a mall, or a sporting event, or a parade, and somebody screams “Allahu Akbar!”, you know that’s won’t be followed by a demonstration of God’s greatness.

Watch any movie made in New York in the 30 years before 9/11, and there’s that moment, the establishing shot of the skyline: you see two boring but really tall towers that tell the world, “Hey, this ain’t Wichita. This is Manhattan. And if you can make it here, you probably already have a trust fund.” Those towers have been rebuilt into a glassy obelisk thing, but I miss the rectangles. And the people who worked in them.

At the risk of sounding Islamophobic, 9/11 is the day that reminded us why we’re phobic about Islam in the first place. The savagery was so traumatic, any prompt sends us right back to where we were, what we were doing, what we should have been doing instead of what we were doing, and how we grieved in that moment. Yet we are also reminded that the invasion, which instantly took the lives of 3000 Americans and whose long-term effects are still killing us, did not occur last month. In fact, it’s so long ago that the current generation of college kids wasn’t born until five years after the planes hit Wall Street and the Pentagon. Which means that to these babies, September 11th might as well be the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. It’s a lesson in the history books – except high schools are so bad they barely have time to get through World War II, let alone anything that happened in the 21st century.

Therefore, young people have no memory of 9/11, no understanding of life beyond their own tattoos and noise-canceling headphones. This renders them perfect targets for the lies of social media and noise-making influencers. An influencer is someone who achieved fame for their looks, which gives them carte blanche to pontificate on everything they know nothing about. Even worse are the celebrities whose modicum of talent fools them into believing they’re political scientists who can win a Nobel peace prize by bashing Israel. Schmucklemore? Javier Boredom? Roger Warthog? These scumbags think they’re a think tank?

Billie Foolish? Cynthia Toxin? Susan Sarandump? I don’t know where these putas learned poli sci, but I hope their bodies are polycystic – because left-wing college punks eat their garbage up. “9/11 was America’s fault.” “Bibi Netanyahu is Hitler.” “From the River to the Sea – It’s Team Hamas for Me!” Even the October 7th massacre is the Jews’ fault for oppressing the poor, poor Palestinians who have nowhere else to live — except 70 other countries in the Middle East and Africa . . . who won’t let them in. And that’s somehow the Jews’ fault, too.

Everything’s our fault again. Just like in the Middle Ages, like Papal Spain, like Weimar Germany. Only now the anti-Semitism is concealed behind blather like, “We just hate the Likud government. We just want the settlers out. We just prefer Jews not living near the Mediterranean but under it.”

History has proven Hebrews need a safe place of our own to live, and that very idea puts the whole world out of joint. Muslims kill RFK, throw Leon Klinghoffer overboard, kidnap and kill an Olympic team, attack Israel on Yom Kippur, slaughter French cartoonists, butcher an Israeli music festival, blow up trains in Madrid and Mumbai, bomb airports in London, Munich, Copenhagen, Brussels, and Athens; shoot up an Australian beach, blast the Boston Marathon, and nuke the World Trade Center twice – yet somehow Arabs are the pitiful victims of a worldwide Jewish conspiracy. Just ask any unwashed coed with a Free Gaza sign and a green tent – she’ll be happy to parrot back the hypocrisies she learned in her guilt-ridden, gender-dysmorphic, Marxist-mangling, vegan social-justice-warrior workshop.

Worse, she can’t begin to conceive of the sunny Tuesday morning, 25 years ago, when a tornado of Muslim madness leveled downtown Manhattan. Or that same evening, when New Yorkers covered with human ash, zombied their way across the Brooklyn Bridge. Or the months following, when every American lived in fear, choked on rage, and dwelled in sorrow.

Not only has the universe not returned to normal since it went to hell in a hummus basket, but in so many ways it’s been turned upside down by the ignorant and naive. The terrorists are the freedom fighters, the victims are all colonizers, and the truth has become fertilizer.

But I remember. I don’t forget, and I don’t forgive. And if you’re gonna come at me this week and disparagingly call me a “Zio,” or say 9/11 was “an inside job,” or couch your Jew hatred in horseshit phrases like “AIPAC money” and “stolen land,” don’t be shocked if I go Ground Zero on you. I may not be a first responder, but I think you know my first response (shows middle finger).

This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches, in Great Neck, New York. Happy Jewish New Year, sad anniversary, and shalom dammit.

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.

Sept. 5, 2026: Non-Greeley Times
Non-Greeley Times / Archive.org / youtube

Sept. 5, 2026: StoryTime: Rabbi Sol Solomon reads Gertrude Chandler Warner’s “The Boxcar Children #37: The Mystery of the Lost Village,” chapter 1
Boxcar Children #37 / Archive.org / youtube

Aug. 29, 2026: My Sick Mind: Nepal
My Sick Mind-Nepal / Archive.org / youtube

Aug. 29, 2026: My Sick Mind: Dolly Parton
My Sick Mind-Dolly Parton / Archive.org / youtube

Aug. 29, 2026: Non-Greeley Times
Non-Greeley Times / Archive.org youtube

Aug. 29, 2026: StoryTime: Clothesline Clues
Clothesline Clues to Jobs People Do / Archive.org / youtube

Aug. 22, 2026: StoryTime: The Wonky Donkey
The Wonky Donkey / Archive.org / youtube

Aug. 15, 2026: Non-Greeley Times
Non-Greeley Times / youtube

Aug. 15, 2026: StoryTime: The Raggedy Ann Book
Raggedy Ann Book / youtube

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.
—> https://davesgoneby.net/?p=29976

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)
Listen / Full Episode

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.”
—> https://davesgoneby.net/?p=9343

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 (9/5/2026): STORYTIME – The Boxcar Children #37: Mystery of the Lost Village

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Dave’s Gone By Skit (9/5/2026): STORYTIME – The Boxcar Children #37: Mystery of the Lost Village

Rabbi Sol Solomon reads Gertrude Chandler Warner’s “The Boxcar Children #37: The Mystery of the Lost Village”

This segment aired Sept. 5, 2026 as part of episode #1047 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.

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

Dave’s Gone By Skit (9/5/2026): NON-GREELEY TIMES

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Dave’s Gone By Skit (9/5/2026): NON-GREELEY TIMES

Ridiculous news stories from around the world!

This segment aired Sept. 5, 2026 as part of episode #1048 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.

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

Dave’s Gone By Skit (8/29/2026): MY SICK MIND – Dolly Parton

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Dave jokes (too soon) about the passing of music legend Dolly Parton

This segment aired Aug. 29, 2026 as part of episode #1047 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.

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

Dave’s Gone By Skit (8/29/2026): NON-GREELEY TIMES

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Dave’s Gone By Skit (8/29/2026): NON-GREELEY TIMES

Ridiculous news stories from around the world!

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

Dave’s Gone By Skit (8/22/2026): STORYTIME – Clothesline Clues

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Dave’s Gone By Skit (8/22/2026): STORYTIME – Clothesline Clues

Dave reads Heling & Hembrook’s “Clothesline Clues to Jobs People Do”

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Dave’s Gone By Skit (8/29/2026): MY SICK MIND – Nepal

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Dave’s Gone By Skit (8/29/2026): MY SICK MIND – Nepal

Dave jokes (too soon) about the tragic flood in Nepal

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Dave’s Gone By Skit (8/22/2026): STORYTIME – The Wonky Donkey

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Dave’s Gone By Skit (8/22/2026): STORYTIME – The Wonky Donkey

Dave reads Craig Smith’s “The Wonky Donkey”

This segment aired Aug. 22, 2026 as part of episode #1046 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.

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