Dave’s Gone By Skit: RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #100 (5/18/2014): Boko Haram

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RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #100 (5/18/2014): Boko Haram

aired May 17, 2014 on Dave’s Gone By. Youtube clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy1Wthfvjvo&feature=youtu.be

Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of May 18th, 2014.

Well, the Muslims are at it again. And this time they’re not in Syria, or Pakistan or Saudi Arabia, or any of those other countries where oil wells turned the third world into the first world without giving a second thought to the first amendment. No, today’s Mohammedian mess comes from Nigeria, of all places.

The Islamic militant organization Boko Haram, which I believe is the African word for “Procol Harum,” has spent its quality time causing terrorism and assassinations to the tune of 10,000 dead in the region over the last decade. Nobody every heard of them until now because, well, let’s face it, a bunch of African schvartzes? We have our own problems. But now they’ve gone too far: they’ve kidnapped a bunch of nubile young girls. It’s kind of like when the New York Post has a headline that someone stabbed a co-ed. You could rape a dozen fat, immigrant, Eskimo women, and you won’t even get a line in the Weird but True column. But you knife a cute co-ed, the Post has cover coverage for a week.

So now Boko Haram, this cancerous collective of terror cells – which is what cancer is, come to think of it – Boko Haram has leapt into New York Post nirvana by attacking an all-girls school and kidnapping more than 200 female students. And just to show that it isn’t personal, just business, they’ve threatened to sell the girls into slavery. I know – it’s horrible, it’s inhumane, and let me tell you, with Merry Maids charging a hundred bucks a week, I’m tempted.

But seriously, what a shock that the religion of peace would turn out to be the religion of 200 pieces of Nigerian ass. Governments around the world are working to coax the kidnappers into behaving decently, which is kind of like asking a gorilla to stop throwing banana crap. In response, Boko Haram said, “Sure, we’ll release the young ladies – in a trade for all of our terrorists that you have locked up.” Sound familiar? Ask Israel how many murderers it had to exchange just bring a few soldiers home.

Wisely, the Nigerian government has rejected the “teens-for-terrorists” swap meet, though they are open to broad negotiations – they just won’t negotiate for the broads. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan – and I’m not making that up, the guy sounds like he should have a second-act number in “Guys and Dolls” – Goodluck Jonathan is meeting with other world leaders to discuss ways to put the loco Bokos in their place. Hopefully, that won’t include meeting their demands, appeasing them or treating them like people.

Oh, and big thumbs up to the vigilantes who rose up against these Islamic Fundamurderers last week and started taking back their village. I’m sure they said to themselves, “Hey, the government won’t do it, and the U.N. won’t do it, so let’s grab some torches and pitchforks and look for Imams.”

Of course, I have a much better and safer way of getting revenge on the Nigerians. We send them all an email, and the email says, “Congratulations! You have won $5,000,000 which is being held for you in trust by my uncle, the King of Nebraska. In order to claim your lotto earnings, just send us a bank transfer for $8,000 along with three dozen Nigerian teenage nymphettes, and you’ll get your check in the mail faster than you can say (click language). PS: If you find Casey Kasem, we’ll throw in a toaster. Sincerely, Prince Chaim, Omaha.”

I know, it’s a cruel trick. But payback’s a bitch. So come on, Boko Haram, release the bitches.

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

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (5/17/2014): HAL LINDEN & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews actor Hal Linden

Topics include: Barney Miller, The Rothschilds, Rabbis, clarinet

Segment aired May 17, 2014 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #469 (5/17/2014): LINDEN BOULEVARD

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Here is the 469th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio May 17, 2014. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with actor Hal Linden. Plus: Inside Broadway, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Full Moon), Saturday Segues (Barry Gibb, Joey Ramone), Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection (Boko Haram).

Guests: actor Hal Linden, Joyce 

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (Flea Market, car washer, asbestos, “Barney Miller,” clogged ear, holograms, TSA screenings)
00:58:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Joey Ramone
01:30:00 Sponsors
01:32:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (news (01:32:30); review: Casa Valentina (01:46:00))
02:03:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Hal Linden
03:11:00 Sponsors
03:13:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Full Moon)
03:34:30 Friends
03:40:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #100 (Boko Haram)
03:35:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Barry Gibb
04:02:30 Weather
04:04:00 DAVE GOES OUT

May 17, 2014 Playlist: “Blitzkrieg Bop” (01:11:30), “Rockaway Beach” (01:13:30), “The KKK Took My Baby Away” (01:15:30), “I Want You Around” (01:18:00), “My Brain is Hanging Upside Down” (01:21:00) & “R.A.M.O.N.E.S” (01:25:00; Ramones). “The Music Man – `til There was You‘” (02:00:00; Forbidden Broadway – 2001 a Spoof Odyssey). “It’s De-Lovely” (02:03:00) & “You’re the Top” (02:39:30; Anything Goes (1962 off- Broadway cast w/ Hal Linden). “He Tossed a Coin” (03:00:30) & “In My Own Lifetime” (04:11:30; The Rothschilds 1970 Broadway cast w/ Hal Linden). “Hal Linden in concert” ({excerpts}; 03:07:30). “Full Moon and Empty Arms” (03:15:00), “Yea, Heavy and a Bottle of Bread” (03:18:00), “Blue Moon” (03:20:00), “Down the Highway” (03:22:30) & “Tears of Rage” (03:26:00). “Turn of the Century” (03:48:00), “Underworld” (03:51:00), “Red Chair Fade Away” (03:55:30). “Jive Talkin'” (03:57:30; The Judybats).

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Joey Ramone
Barry Gibb
fodder for Boko Haram
Casa Valentina
Barney Miller

Dave’s Gone By Interview (5/10/2014): FRANK FERRANTE & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Groucho maestro FRANK FERRANTE

Topics include: Groucho Marx, Marx Brothers, comedy, TeatroZinzanni, Arthur Marx.

Segment aired May 10, 2014 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (5/24/2014): SWOOSIE KURTZ & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews actress Swoosie Kurtz

Topics include: Joshua White, Sisters, Mike & Molly, Michael Caine, Lillian Hellman, Tony Randall.

Segment aired May 24, 2014 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #468 (5/10/2014): FERR INSTANCE

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Here is the 468th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, May 10, 2014. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with actor Frank Ferrante. Plus: Inside Broadway, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Bobby Gregg), Dave on “Coffee with Cudmore,” Saturday Segues (Donovan, moms)

Guests: actor Frank Ferrante, radio host Bob Cudmore, Dave’s wife Joyce 

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (commencement, self-branding, comps, fish puns)
01:02:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Donovan
01:33:00 INSIDE BROADWAY – part 1: news (01:33:30)
01:54:30 Dave on Coffee with Cudmore (w/ Bob Cudmore)
02:11:00 INSIDE BROADWAY – part 2: review (The Cripple of Inishmaan)
02:25:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Frank Ferrante
03:15:30 Sponsors
03:18:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Bobby Gregg)
03:44:30 Sponsors
03:47:00 Friends
03:52:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Moms
04:12:30 Weather
04:15:00 Upcoming
04:18:00 DAVE GOES OUT

May 10, 2014 Playlist: “Wet Dream” (00:48:00; Kip Adotta). “Sunshine Superman” (01:07:00), “The Trip” (01:10:30), “Donna Donna” (01:15:00) & “To Susan on the West Coast Waiting” (01:21:30; Donovan). “Happiness Runs” (01:18:00; Christine Lavin). “Wear Your Love Like Heaven” (Sarah McLachlan; 01:24:30). “Greenfinch and Linnet Bird” (02:19:30; Sweeney Todd 2005 Broadway cast). Excerpts from “An Evening with Groucho” (02:21:30; Frank Ferrante). “Everyone Says I Love You” (03:12:00; Groucho Marx). “Like a Rolling Stone” (03:22:00), “Love Minus Zero/No Limit” (03:28:30), “Tombstone Blues” (03:31:00) & “One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later”) (03:37:00; Bob Dylan). “Mommy Daddy You and I” (03:52:30; Talking Heads). “Mom Song” (03:56:30; Passing Strange 2005 Broadway cast w/ Stew & Eisa Davis). “Mom & Pop” (03:59:00; Lewis Black). “Lawdy Mama” (04:00:30; Edgar Blanchard). “Mama’s Talkin’ Soft” (04:02:30; Gypsy 1959 Broadway cast w/ Laura Leslie). “Octomom” (04:05:30; Capitol Steps w/ Janet Davidson Gordon). “You’ve Got to See Mamma Ev’ry Night” (04:07:30; Carol Channing). “Dear Mama” (04:21:00; Eric Andersen).

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The Cripple of Inishmaan
Bobby Gregg
mother’s day
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Dave’s Gone By Interview (5/2/2014): BOB CUDMORE

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Dave Lefkowitz appears as a guest on WVTL radio’s “Coffee with Cudmore,” hosted by Bob Cudmore.

The appearance was replayed on Dave’s Gone By episode #468 on May 10, 2014.

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (4/26/2014): JOE CORCORAN & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with producer Joe Corcoran

Topics include: Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding, Late Nite Catechism, lung cancer, Dr. Zhivago.

Segment aired April 26, 2014 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #467 (4/26/2014): PUT A CORC IN IT

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Here is the 467th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, April 26, 2014. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with producer Joe Corcoran; Inside Broadway; Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later; Saturday Segue (Judy Collins).

Guests: producer Joe Corcoran, Joyce Weil

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce Weil (Jonesy, Agatha Christies, interviewees, The Sneaky Marmot, sneakers on)
01:05:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Judy Collins
01:35:30 Sponsors
01:39:30 INSIDE BROADWAY (news (01:40:00), review: Bullets Over Broadway (02:09:00))
02:25:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Joe Corcoran
03:13:30 Sponsors
03:15:30 Friends
03:25:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later
03:50:30 DAVE GOES OUT

April 26, 2014 Playlist: “Wild Rippling Water” (01:08:00), “Mountain Girl” (01:15:00), “Pretty Horses” (01:19:30), “Born to the Breed” (01:22:00) & “In My Life” (01:27:00; Judy Collins). “Weaver Song (Holly’s Song)” (01:11:00; Dar Williams). “Sugar Daddy” (02:20:30; Hedwig and the Angry w/ John Cameron Mitchell). “Hurricane” ({live} 03:26:30), “Union Sundown” (03:34:30), “Subterranean Homesick Blues” (03:40:00) & “Wedding Song” (03:42:00; Bob Dylan).

Joe Corcoran
Bullets Over Broadway
those sneaky marmots
Judy Blue Eyes

Dave’s Gone By Skit: RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #99 (4/20/2014): Utz vs. Butler

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RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #99 (4/20/2014): Utz vs. Butler

aired April 20, 2014 on Dave’s Gone By. Youtube clip: http://youtu.be/S8bUHv8TNa0

Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of April 20th, 2014.

Last Monday, Michael Utz, of Culpepper, Virginia, was awarded $5,000 in punitive damages from a former fellow employee. That coworker, James Carroll Butler, also spent a month in prison back in 1999 for a little prank he pulled on Utz at the office.

Butler was mad at Utz – in a way that only people who have to work next to each other 40 hours a week, week after week after week, can get angry at each other – so Mr. Butler grabbed the office coffee pot and took it with him to the toilet. No, don’t get ahead of me; he did not pee in the coffee pot. He peed in the toilet. But then he took the coffee pot and filled it from the toilet. He then waited – tee hee, tee hee – for Michael Utz to use the pot for coffee.

Luckily for Utz, he smelled something unpleasant in the pot before he went to use it. So instead of brewing a pot of Chock Full o’ Nuts – or, more accurately, chock full of pee from his coworker’s nuts, Mr. Utz brought the coffee pot to his superior who sent it to a lab. Tests came back positive for fecal matter, and Butler was arrested, charged with a misdemeanor and given a one-year sentence with 11 months suspended. As far as his job was concerned, he was, of course…relieved. Oh, and just for the sake of irony, did I mention they both worked at a waste-treatment facility?

As anyone who has labored day-in, day-out in a cubicle, offices can be fraught with tension, jealousies, grudges and disappointments. Surrounded by strangers you’d never bother with otherwise, you’re forced to put up with the aggravations of office politics. Either that or you quit, or you get yourself fired if you want unemployment, or you whip out a semi-automatic rifle and shoot anyone who jams up the copy machine. Which is pretty much everyone.

That, of course, is going too far, but let’s face it: revenge is a dish best served piping hot. Or in this case, fresh brewed. We’ve all seen the movie “9-to-5” where they tie up Dabney Coleman and improve the workplace in his absence. And who didn’t enjoy the pranks Jim and Pam played on Dwight in “The Office?” Well, Dwight didn’t, but he deserved them.

So I’m not about to delve into the moral equivalencies of crime versus prank punishment. I’m not here to ask: What would a co-worker have to do that would make you justified for crazy-gluing their telephone receiver to the hook? Or to their ear? What would a boss have to put you through so you’d get to the point of saying, “Yes, I deleted her hard drive and replaced it with a grilled-cheese sandwich, but in fairness, that was a good sandwich”? How badly would a superior have to piss you off before you offer them piss? We all have our breaking points and our tit-for-tat total tallies.

What I do not understand is why it took five years for this incident to be resolved – to the tune of $5,000. How many man hours, how many lawyer hours, how many other cases were pushed aside in order for this to come to trial? Were there clerks of the court sitting in front of their calendars going, “Okay, we have a guy who shot three people in a hold-up, and there’s this other fella accused of planting a terrorist bomb at the graves of Afghan vets at Arlington . . . But wait, no, stop everything! James Carroll Butler took a whiz in his co-worker’s Café Bustelo. Clear the dockets! Clear the schedule! And somebody sniff the coffee maker; I don’t like the looks of that intern.”

Half a decade of legal wrangling to find out that Butler did it. Why the delay? It should have been easy to find a jury of his peers. After all, being a pee-er is what got him in trouble in the first place. Couldn’t this have been settled out of court? Maybe Utz could have crapped in a bucket and made brownies. “You eat mine; I drank yours – we’re even! Let’s shake hands. Or maybe not.”

There should be a way to resolve small disputes – or, in this case, piddling ones – without tying up tax dollars and the justice system. I’m not saying discharging in the Dunkin Donuts is acceptable behavior. It’s just that you don’t need to turn it into the next O.J. trial. Unless someone pees in your o.j..

So I suppose the moral of this story is, well, don’t urinate in the Yuban. But, also, if someone hands you a cup of joe, and you can taste Joe, report it – but also don’t expect to hit the lottery. And if worse comes to worst, and you do take a sip, even then just remember: it will still taste better than Starbucks.

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

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