Rabbi Sol Solomon’s celebrity interviews, Rabbinical Reflections (sermons), songs, and other appearances on the show.
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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with actor & playwright MICHAEL GOTCH
Topics include: Tiny House, Delaware REP, theater, Hamlet
Segment aired June 19, 2021 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/podcast program #802 hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Segment aired June 12, 2021 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/podcast program #802 hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with Peter Stampfel, who stays to play the Today/Yesterday trivia quiz with actress Vicki Quade and theater critic Leslie (Hoban) Blake
Topics include: The Fugs, The Holy Modal Rounders, Sam Shepard, speed, dysphonia, Jeffrey Lewis, music.
Segment aired June 5, 2021 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/podcast program #801 hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Segment aired May 22, 2021 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with actress KIMBERLY FAYE GREENBERG, who then plays the Today/Yesterday trivia quiz opposite Fred Cleaver & Wendy Highby and David Sheward.
Topics include: Fabulous Fanny Brice, COVID-19, Sylvia Fine Kaye.
Segment aired May 15, 2021 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Segment aired May 1, 2021 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for April 30, 2021.
Happy Lag B’Omer everybody! And if you’ve ever had your Omer logged, you know just how delightful that can be.
Lag B’Omer is a relatively minor holiday on the Jewish calendar, but our people appreciate it because it is a happy one. Well, not completely happy. God won’t let a Jewish holiday be completely happy. And this festival, in particular, is about putting a bookend on a time of gloom.
Some say Lag B’Omer is celebrated because that day marked the end of a terrible plague in the Jewish community. No, not bad drivers. Rabbi Akiva, who was a great sage — and a mediocre parsley — had a lot of disciples who started dropping dead between Passover and Shavuoth. Somehow, on this date, they stopped dying. Maybe it was Pfizer, maybe Moderna — whatever. Suddenly it was time to rejoice.
Now, a completely different explanation for Lag B’Omer involves one of Ravi Akiva’s disciples, Shimon bar Yochai. Lag B’Omer is the day he kicked the b’ucket. So who celebrates a death? Well, this Yochai guy was something of a mystic. By writing the Zohar, he started the Kabbalah ball rolling. He told his followers, now that I’m leaving my body, all my teachings and good deeds belong to the universe. So don’t mourn; go have a wedding, do a dance, get a fun haircut, light a bonfire because of all the light I’ve brought into the world. And marshmallows.
So that’s what Jews have been doing — taking a break during a somber time on the calendar, when everyone’s worried about the harvest, and having a party. And if you happen to be in Israel, you can go visit the tomb of Shimon bar Yochai, which happens to be in a town called Meron. I think you know where I’m going with this.
Year after year, hundreds of thousands of Orthodox Jews make a pilgrimage to Meron for feasting and fun. It’s like Woodstock — only Jews don’t take acid; we get acid reflux. The Yidlach gather for this festival — sometimes 400,000 people show up for this Lag B’orgy.
April 2021, because of COVID, only 100,000 came. Easy-peasy, right? Except, a few people slipped, folks behind them couldn’t go backwards — voila! Stampede. 45 people crushed to death like grapes in a Manischewitz pulper. 150 more wounded. It’s the worst peacetime disaster in the history of Eretz Yisroel. I know you’re waiting for a joke but no…that’s the emmes.
Who’s to blame? Everybody, of course. First of all, you have the insular Orthodox, who don’t think the greater community’s rules apply to them. We saw this with the Haredis in Brooklyn, who were holding massive, unmasked weddings and funerals when the governor was begging everyone: don’t even hold small unmasked weddings and funerals. Were Cuomo’s restrictions draconian? Did the Orthodox exacerbate a health crisis? Or vice versa: by disregarding protocols, did they prove that, at least for people under 60, we’ve all been going overboard with a punishment that’s worse than the disease?
Even if that were true, and Governor Cuomo was erring on the side of caution — well, not with his schmeckel but with everything else — what the Haredi were doing was unbelievably selfish and thoughtless. “We follow American laws to the letter…up until the moment we don’t happen to agree with them. Who needs police? We police ourselves.” So elected officials who crave the Orthodox vote look the other way when rules are bent.
Sometimes that’s fine — sometimes it enables catastrophe. Wifebeaters and child molesters keep on beating wifes and molesting childs while the Rabbis try to fix things behind the scenes. Ask the Catholic church how well that works. And it’s this entitled arrogance of the Haredi attitude that tells Bibi Netanyahu, “We’re gonna put a hundred thousand people on a road meant for 30,000. HaShem will be our crowd control.” But they forget: God likes crushing things. Look what He did to Samson.
Jews have good reason for being wary of outsiders. From Roman soldiers to Spanish inquisitors to Cossacks — if a goy was on your doorstep, he wasn’t holding a check from Publishers Clearing House. However, when it comes to legitimate concerns about public safety — whether you’re spitting corona droplets on your cousin or getting pushed so close to a stranger your quarter shoes land on his forehead — it would be nice if my brethren would show a little consideration for the bigger picture.
Besides, what’s so wrong with a few more weeks of distancing? We’re Jewish. We shouldn’t be going to mass.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches.
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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with actress LOUISE LASSER w/ MICHAEL CITRINITI
Topics include: acting, The Chinese and Dr. Fish.
Segment aired April 24, 2021 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 794th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, April 17, 2021. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Guests: musician Frank London; theater critics David Sheward and Leslie (Hoban) Blake
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews musician Frank London and performers a “Miscast”: song; Greeley Crimes & Old Times; Today Yesterday trivia quiz (April 17 w/ Frank London, Leslie (Hoban) Blake, and David Sheward; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Crook, CO); Inside Broadway.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (miscasting, Big Sur Sucks, break a leg) 00:45:30 INSIDE BROADWAY 01:01:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Frank London 01:50:00 TODAY/YESTERDAY Trivia Quiz (April 17 w/ Leslie (Hoban) Blake, Frank London, David Sheward) 03:18:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON is Miscast 03:22:30 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 03:41:00 Friends of the Daverhood 03:50:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Crook, CO) 03:52:30 DAVE GOES OUT
MCC Theater held a virtual open call for submissions to their “Miscast” benefit, in which singers perform theater songs that they wouldn’t ordinarily get to sing. Rabbi Sol Solomon chose this number from the Melvin Van Peebles concept album-turned-Broadway musical, Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death.
