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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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).
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.
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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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).
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 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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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 ReynoldsRobert HarlingLucy Peacock as Queen Lear
RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #47 (11/25/2012): Gaza Gaza Hey
Aired November 24, 2012 on Dave’s Gone By. Youtube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSL0TEmRah4&feature=youtu.be
Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of November 25th, 2012.
And so we find ourselves once again on the brink of war with our Arab brothers. We warn them: stop firing rockets in Gaza; they fire rockets in Gaza, and Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv. We tell them, recognize the state of Israel so we can have a starting point for peace talks; they want to obliterate Israel, instead. We say, Hamas and the Palestinian Authority have to be on the same page so we know whom to negotiate with; Mahmoud Abbas is a figurehead and Hamas fires weapons. It’s the same drek that’s been going on for sixty five years, and the tragedy is that it will go on long after our great-great-grandchildren are sipping prune juice in what’s left of Miami.
And, of course, Israel gets blamed. We’re the aggressors, we’re the ones occupying the territories, we’re the ones who own the pro-Jewish media, we’re the ones who keep making sitcom knock-offs of “Two and a Half Men.” A million and twelve times I’ve given my speech about how Israel belongs to Israel, how the Palestinians should go live anywhere else in the Arab world, and how no matter what Israel does – even if Israel were, God forbid, wiped off the map – that would not stop the Arabs from killing and terror and dragging the world back to the fifth century. If anything, it would only embolden them: “Ooh, we destroyed a democracy filled with people who have different social values. Gee, what other country can we do that to?”
Left-wing pundits are saying that Israel should not refuse to negotiate with terrorists. You have to negotiate with Arab terrorists or else there’s no one to talk to. Fine, let Israel negotiate with Hamas, just like we did with Yasser Arafat – because that was so productive, right? If Hamas, or Al-Qaida, or the Taliban, or the PLO, or the AFLCIO want to lay down their weapons and negotiate a true ceasefire – great, get a room at the U.N., we’ll bring the chips and dip. But sixty-five years of overtures to the Arab world have given us only one peace deal, with Egypt, and God knows where that’s headed after the revolution over there.
I’ll say it one more time: if Arabs want to live in Israel, fine. Let them live IN Israel, peacefully, as Israelis, in a Jewish state carved out of a tiny nugget of the middle east as recompense for the Holocaust. If the Arabs don’t want to live IN Israel, they can move to Jordan, or Syria, or Lebanon, or Iran, or Iraq, or Mexico, or Sudan – actually, I just threw Mexico in there to see if you were paying attention. And if the Arabs want to live near Israel, they have to stop sending us exploding Christmas gifts with “Made in Iran” on them.
Yes, Israel gets gazillions of dollars of weapons from the United States – so Israel can keep the Middle East stable instead of having to send American teenagers to do it. And yes, living conditions are grueling in the occupied territories – so don’t live there! Israel won those territories in two wars, they own it – get over it, get off it.
Israel is not going away. It’s our teentsy-weentsy little homeland, and the Arab world – which really couldn’t give a rat’s ass about the Palestinians or else the Palestinians would all be living there – the Arab world hates the West, hates the Jews, and has no interest in any kind of peace that does not involve total and complete annihilation of its enemies. Well, maybe not complete annihilation. They’d probably want to leave a few hundred behind just to torture.
At this time of Thanksgiving, let us pray for a cease fire, for cool heads and hopeful headlines, for lasting peace, and for a 48-inch HD TV with surround sound. Hey, at least I have a shot at that last one.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, New York.
Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with actor and author Rick Lenz.
Topics include: Rick Lenz’s Hollywood career, in-laws, marriages, substance issues and creative rebound.
Segment originally aired Nov. 24, 2012 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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