STORYTIME: Dave Reads “A History of Underwear with Professor Chicken”
For this week’s StoryTime segment on Dave’s Gone By, Dave reads Hannah Holt’s book, “A History of Underwear with Professor Chicken”
This segment aired July 5, 2025 as part of the 989th “Dave’s Gone By” video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz. Full episodes also available on youtube, Facebook (davesgoneby), and on DavesGoneBy.com.
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Here is the 989th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, July 5, 2025.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews poet Devon Fulford and offers his Rabbinical Reflection on Danielle Khalaf and the ACLU; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Burkett); StoryTime (“A History of Underwear with Professor Chicken”); Greeley Times. Guests: poet Devon Fulford; spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: lawn animals, July 4th at Nathan’s, Richard Greenberg 01:14:00 GREELEY TIMES 01:44:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Devon Fulford 02:25:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #196: Danielle Khalaf and the ACLU 02:35:30 STORYTIME: “A History of Underwear with Professor Chicken” (Hannah Holt) 02:57:30 Friends of the Daverhood 03:04:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Burdett, CO 03:07:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Segment airs July 5, 2025 as part of the 989th episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for Independence Weekend 2025.
Hatred to the right of us, hatred to the left of us—especially to the left of us these days—Jews can’t look at the news without nitwits giving us grief, and bigger nitwitslauding and defending them.
The latest example comes to us from Detroit, Michigan, a city with so much Muslim integration, they might as well call it “Baby Beirut.” However, these people are not illegal terrorists; they are citizens and immigrants working, striving, paying taxes, and sending their kids to school.
One such kid is 14-year-old Danielle Khalaf. Of Palestinian origin, she does not like Israel very much. She also presumably watched one too many NFL games and noticed some athletes taking a knee rather than standing for the “Star Spangled Banner.” Well, little Danielle thought, “This is my chance to change the world!” . . . because who doesn’t take their political cues from a precocious, pubescent adolescent at East Middle School?
Instead of rising and saying the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, as millions of children have dutifully done since 1892, kooky Khalaf stayed seated and silent. That is her right as an American citizen: the prerogative to criticize the government, to wave the flag/wear the flag/or burn the flag, to buck peer pressure and march to your own drummer, even if the drummer plays like Lars Ulrich.
I’m sure Danielle, a stubby potato of a girl, who you can tell will be a middle-aged cat lady by the time she’s 22, dreams of being “courageous” like Greta “Look at Me” Thunberg. But Khalaf is far from the first person to pass on the Pledge. Atheists have long bristled at the “under God” part, and people with harelips can’t pronounce “indivisible.”
So Khalaf is entitled to her narcissistic snit over America’s military support of Israel. But her teacher, Carissa Soranno, was not happy about it and called the girl out over her Gaza grandstanding. Maybe Soranno’s pro-Israel. Maybe she’s just appalled by the girl’s refusal to pledge allegiance to this nation and no other. Soranno told her, quote, “Since you live in this country and enjoy its freedom, if you don’t like it, you should go back to your country.” When the girl repeated her sit-down protest the next day, Soranno called her “disrespectful” and said she should be ashamed of herself.
This hurt Danielle’s feewings. She was “traumatized,” she said. Awww. So traumatized she tattled to the American Civil Liberties Union. Ughhh. They filed a lawsuit against the school district and the teacher for violating Khalaf’s rights and for making her suffer, quote, “extensive emotional and social injuries.” (gasp) If a snowflake melts in a cafeteria, does it make a whine?
Nabih Ayad, a spokesperson for the Arab-American Civil Rights League, rebuked the teacher in the press, calling her insensitive for picking on a student who was merely exercising her constitutional right. The school district then said it had taken “appropriate action” against Soranno.
And maybe that’s reasonable. A teacher should display more maturity than a 14-year-old over whom she has power, and the woman’s response to Khalif was harsh, disparaging, maybe even inappropriate. Soranno acted in the heat of a moment that she might have finessed or counted to ten and avoided. But she also spoke her truth: this teenager thumbing her nose at America hurt the teacher’sfeelings.
So why isn’t the ACLU defending her? Why does Princess Jasmine get to snub the stars and stripes—a slap in the face to everyone who ever fought and died for this country, by the way—why is her free speechlessness protected, but the teacher’s isn’t? Soranno didn’t smack the kid. She didn’t dock her grade. She didn’t put baby in the corner and make her wear a dunce hijab. She didn’t glue her eyes open and force her to watch Schindler’s List. She merely called Khalaf shameful and disrespectful, and asked her, insultingly but fairly, if this country’s military choices are so hateful to her, why doesn’t she snag a one-way ticket to any country in the Arabsphere, where, of course, young women are free to do whatever they please?
Before she becomes another brainlessly woke college student blocking traffic and sleeping in a green tent, maybe this 14-year-old should learn that just because your actions are legal doesn’t mean you’re not responsible. If you give me the finger, and I call you an asshole, why does the ACLU protect your finger but attack my asshole? That didn’t come out right, but you know what I mean: freedom of speech works both ways. If Khalaf can make her stupid statement, Soranno should be able to denounce her. The school district then has the right to chastise Soranno, while patriotic parents have the right to berate the school.
Nothing is more American than a free exchange of anger, mistrust, and derision, all of it protected, as it should be, by the founding fathers. Danielle Khalaf is getting all sorts of sympathy for sitting, but I stand with Soranno. And when it comes to the ACLU’s lamebrain lawsuit, I paraphrase the Pledge and hope the teacher receives the justice meant for all.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, New York. Yankee Doodle dammit.
Dave’s Gone By Skit (6/28/2025): STORYTIME: Dave Reads “Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva”
For this week’s StoryTime segment on Dave’s Gone By, Dave reads the religious children’s book on Buddhism, “Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva” This segment aired June 28, 2025 as part of the 988th “Dave’s Gone By” video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
Full episodes also available on youtube, Facebook (davesgoneby), and on DavesGoneBy.com.
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Here is the 988th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, June 28, 2025.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews comedian Pablo Lewin and offers his Rabbinical Reflection on Zohran Mamdani; Greeley Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Bunyan); Bunion Watch; StoryTime (Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva)
Guests: comedian Pablo Lewin; spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: flying sloths, exercise, dentistry, hummingbirds, frog refuse, Riverside Tower 01:18:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Pablo Lewin 01:58:00 GREELEY TIMES 02:24:30 STORYTIME: “Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva” 02:53:00 Friends of the Daverhood 03:08:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #195: Zohran Mamdani 03:20:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Bunyan & BUNION WATCH (03:21:30) 03:25:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Pablo Lewin
Rabbi Sol Solomon
Bunyan, CO
your host and his Froggo friendPotato takes in the view from the Riverside Tower Hotel
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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with comedian PABLO LEWIN
Topics include: stand-up comedy, aviation, ham radio, Israel.
Segment airs June 28, 2025 as part of the 987th episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #195 (6/28/2025): ZOHRAN MAMDANI
This Rabbinical Reflection first aired June 28, 2025 on the Dave’s Gone By video podcast.
Rabbi Sol’s Rabbinical Reflections are heard on the long-running Dave’s Gone By radio/video podcast program (davesgoneby.com) and then archived as text and audio on the Rebbe’s blog, Shalomdammit.com, where a transcript of this Reflection may be read.
Rabbi Sol is also the creator of the stage show, “Shalom Dammit! An Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon,” which played in NYC in Nov. 2011 and Aug. 2012.
RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #195 (6/25/2025): Zohran Mamdani
airs June 28, 2025 on Dave’s Gone By. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_8PqbgcvwE
Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for late June 2025.
Well, congratulations, progressive Democrats. Your efforts to transform once-magnificent New York City into a terrifying shithole are going splendidly. On June 24th, Primary Day in NYC, voters rejected Andrew Cuomo—whose only sin was hubris and killing a bunch of old people during COVID (ask yourself: were they missed?). Instead, these lefty losers pulled the trigger – er, lever – for Zohran Mamdani.
Who is Zohran Mamdani? Or, more precisely, who the fuck is Zohran Mamdani? He’s the son of a Columbia Professor of Colonialism (that should tell you something right there) and of a filmmaker mom who’s spent a decade boycotting Israel. Little Zohran got his start stumping for a Palestinian pastor and joining the anti-Zionist Democratic Socialists of America. Bolstered by these unassailable credentials, in 2020 Mamdani was elected Assemblyman for Astoria and Long Island City, Queens.
Like so many liberal Democrats, Mamdani has ideas that sound good on paper: raising minimum wage, free busing, government-run free grocery stores for the poor (can you say, Russia 1970s?), prison reform. But like so many socialists, he has no idea where to get the money to pay for this Marxist utopia. But that’s okay; all politicians promise pie in the sky but deliver olive loaf in the gutter. The disaster of Mamdani is not inexperience and economic naivete. His worthlessness boils down to one issue: virulent hatred of Israel. When you elect someone whose rallying cry is “globalize the Intifada,” who calls Israel’s revenge against Hamas “genocide,” and who refused to co-sponsor Holocaust Remembrance Day, you’re putting power in the hands of a dangerous, evil radical.
The very fact that Mamdani was backed by AOC and by Bernie Sanders, a self-hating Communist kike if there ever was one, tells you everything you need to know—except that this guy isn’t even Arab! Mamdani is Ugandan—the country that gave us Idi Amin, child soldiers, and anti-gay legislation that makes Yemen look like Rainbow Station on Christopher Street.
So, New Yorkers, when November rolls around, you have a choice. You can reelect Mayor Adams—who may not be Giuliani but he certainly moved the city past the DeBlasio debacle. You can go Republican with Curtis Sliwa, who’s run so many times, he should campaign in jogging shorts. (Actually, I think he does.) And, by the way, the platform of pro-police, anti-crime, anti-illegals, conservative Sliwa also includes pilot testing universal basic income. Put that in your progressive pipe and smoke it!
Oh, and there’s also an independent candidate: Jim Walden, a high-powered attorney who has as much chance of winning as I have of growing my foreskin back. Then again, the impossible and unthinkable have happened so many times the past couple years, I keep Ripley’s Believe it or Not on speed dial.
What I do believe is that Big Apple Democrats now have their own Trump – a scary wildcard they chose mainly to signal their exasperation with the status quo. Or at least I hope that was the motivation. The other option is that pro-Muslim anti-Semitism has become so ingrained in the left—even the Jewish left—that they’d vote for Bin Laden if he used the right pronouns.
Me? I fear for New York and America, not because Zohran Mamdani will build concentration camps or start pogroms, or close all the delis. I dread a culture that turns a blind eye to hateful ideology and a deaf ear to common sense. Too often, socialist policies meant to provide a safety net instead ignite lawlessness. But look on the bright side: there’s always sharia law.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, (you should pardon the expression), New York.
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Here is the 987th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, June 14, 2025.
Featuring: Dave interviews theatrical Randy Packer; Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on Sly & Bri; StoryTime (Alien Tomato); Greeley Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Buckeye).
Guest: director Randy Packer, spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: Sly Stone and Brian Wilson, Come Blow Your Horn, Dr. Demento 01:14:30 GUEST: Randy Packer 01:58:30 GREELEY TIMES 02:23:30 STORYTIME: Alien Tomato (by Kristen Schroeder) 02:40:30 Friends of the Daverhood 02:53:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #194: Sly & Bri 03:01:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Buckeye, CO 03:04:00 DAVE GOES OUT
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Dave Lefkowitz chats with theatrical director RANDY PACKER
Topics include: theater, Hewlett, Come Blow Your Horn
Segment aired June 14, 2025 as part of the 987th episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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