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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with public speaker BERNIE FURSHPAN
Topics include: cabaret, Metropolitan Room, the Holocaust, Judaism
Segment aired May 24, 2025 as part of the 984th episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 985th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, May 24, 2025.
Featuring: Guest: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews public speaker Bernie Furshpan; Inside Broadway; Greeley Times, Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Buchanan)
Guest: cabaret mogul Bernie Furshpan; spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: new sloths, blackout 00:16:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Bernie Furshpan 01:17:00 MY OLD PHLEGM 01:35:00 GREELEY TIMES 01:56:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN: drawing, Sheep & Wool Festival, potato truck, envelopes, toasters 02:39:00 INSIDE BROADWAY 03:01:00 Friends of the Daverhood 03:11:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Buchanan, CO) 03:13:00 DAVE GOES OUT
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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with filmmaker ROSEMARIE REED
Topics include: Playing in the FM Band: The Steve Post Story, film, Ravensbruck, Lenny Bruce, Russia
Segment airs March 19, 2022 as part of the 842nd episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with author MARTY BROUNSTEIN
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Topics include: Two Among the Righteous Few, Holocaust, public speaking, motivational speaking.
Segment aired Dec. 21, 2019 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
Note: Farewell to our Friend of the Daverhood, Marty Brounstein, who passed 7/31/2020 at age 63.
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Here is the 725th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live Saturday, Dec. 21, 2019. More info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews author Marty Brounstein. Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Inside Broadway, Storytime (No Small Potatoes), Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Eagle), Today Yesterday (Dec. 21).
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (season’s greetings) 00:34:30 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 01:09:00 STORYTIME – No Small Potatoes, part 1 01:33:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (news & review (01:38:00; American Utopia)) 02:08:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Eagle) 02:14:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Marty Brounstein 02:52:00 Friends of the Daverhood 02:57:00 TODAY YESTERDAY – Dec. 21) 03:11:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Dec 21, 2019 Playlist: “Maoz Tzuris” (02:12:00; Rabbi Sol Solomon).
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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews author Iris Dorbian Topics include: business writing, Epiphany in Lilacs, the Holocaust.
Segment airs Jan. 28, 2017 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Eliezer Mayer (aka Elli the King of Broadway)
Topics include: cabaret, Judaism, the Holocaust, Orthodox.
Segment aired Dec. 20, 2014 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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5. At the end of World War II, an English madame sets up a brothel in Berlin, figuring to capitalize on all the western soldiers around. Unfortunately, the Yanks just find local girlfriends, and there are no German men with any money, so the brothel struggles terribly.
Worse, next door, a small German bakery grabs whatever business there is to be had. Desperate, the English madame visits the bakery one morning to see if she can work out some kind of deal.
As soon as she walks in, a blueberry muffin leaps off the oven tray, rolls across the floor, flies under her skirt and bites her on the vagina. The woman screams, and all the workers in the bakery come running.
“That bloody thing just bit me!” she said.
“What are you talking about?”
Before the madame can repeat herself, another muffin leaps off the pan, zips under her skirt and gives her a nip on the cooch.
“Oww! What kind of bakery is this?” the madame screams.
“Go away, old woman!” the workers say.
“Go away? This is dangerous! I’m telling everyone!”
So the madame starts raising a ruckus, people gather in the shop door, and the bakery people try to hustle her out of the shop. But the madame points at them, and she sings, “Come all without! Come all within! Your Nazi Muffins Like to Bite Me Quim!”
Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews playwright Barry Levey
Topics include: Hoaxocaust, Judaism, New York International Fringe Festival, Holocaust.
Segment aired Aug. 9, 2014 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of November 17th, 2013.
I’m not exactly a spa kind of guy. Relaxation frightens me, and if you’re gonna put me on a massage table, you better have huge boobs and a latex glove because I ain’t leaving without my money’s worth. If I were the spa type, however, one place I would hesitate to visit is the Crystal Sauna Wellness Park in Thuringia, Germany. By all accounts, it’s a lovely place: gourmet food, heated pool, sauna, live entertainment, cozy rooms. They really should promote the place more.
Or maybe they shouldn’t. An advertising agency came up with a print ad for Crystal Park that went on the spa’s website. The copywriter wanted to marry the theme of romance and relaxation with the name of the venue. Something that said, “spend a memorable evening here at the Crystal Spa.” However, those were not the words they used. Instead they said – and I’m not making this up – quote, “Enjoy the evening hours in candlelight and relax, in a long, romantic Kristall-Nacht.”
You’d think a German would know that putting the words “Kristall” and “nacht” together is the opposite of romantic. It’s like a cruise ship promoting itself by saying, “Come with us on a journey of titanic proportions!”
An employee of the spa said the advertisement was, quote, “a misunderstanding,” one that stemmed from the park’s name, Crystal. It certainly had nothing to do with the beginnings of the Holocaust. But all we can wonder is how a German ad exec could not know that November 9th, 1938 was the beginning of Hitler’s final solution. That was the night of the broken glass – “crystal night” – when German-Jewish store owners were beaten, their windows smashed, ethnic slurs painted on their bricks – the first wave of the Holocaust. Most importantly, it proved to the Nazi regime that they could get away with state-sanctioned brutality without anyone trying to stop it.
It’s like when the first West Coast rapper said, “Hey, the album is a little short. Maybe I’ll do a duet with someone else on the label. How bad could it be?” He tries it, and two years later, every other song on a rap CD has a guest appearance. Yes, the scale of the tragedy is different, but the principle is the same.
Even as we move into the 21st century, 80 years and three generations since the Nazis took power, Germany remains a prickly pear. Grandchildren carry the moral burden for something completely alien to them, and yet some of those guilty grandparents still walk the earth. It’s illegal to be a white supremacist there, or to own or display Nazi memorabilia or even give the “Heil Hitler” salute. Which is probably as it should be. There are silly aspects to the censorship, but consider this: in 1945, the world would have had every right to set off 25 atom bombs over Germany. So even allowing that country to survive – not to mention letting them reunite – is an act of mercy for which they should be abundantly grateful.
Sure, the Holocaust is taught over there, relentlessly, I hear. So there are people who say, “it’s enough. The country can’t move forward if you grind everyone’s soul into the past.” But the reply to that is, well, this Park-Spa ad. Some product of the German school system, who went into advertising, didn’t hear the alarm bell go off in his head. He saw “Kristall,” he thought of “nacht,” and he had no compunction about slamming them together. This is why there can never be too much Holocaust education – especially over there. And the same goes for any act of savagery that we never want to see again.
I would hate to think that 60 years from now, in Saudi Arabia, or Pakistan, or Syria, there’d be a commercial on TV going, “Come to Achlabad for your bedding needs. On-sale now, our heavenly mattress and box spring – twin towers of comfort.” Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to a blooper reel.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, New York.
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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews author Iris Dorbian
