click above to watch episode #980click above to listen (audio only)
Here is the 980th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, March 15, 2025.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #191 (Mahmoud Khalil), Greeley Times; Bunion Watch; Dave’s Big Dictionary (stratagem); StoryTime (Farmer White’s Best Friend); Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Bristol).
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: big duck, pie, Chipotle, Baylen’s tics 00:58:30 GREELEY TIMES 01:18:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN w/ Joyce: rest-stop frogs 01:28:00 STORYTIME: Farmer White’s Best Friend 01:41:00 BUNION WATCH: Pringles! 01:46:30 DAVE’S BIG DICTIONARY: stratagem 01:58:30 DAVE GOES OFF: The Trumpet of the Swan 02:11:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #191: Mahmoud Khalil 02:20:00 Friends of the Daverhood 02:29:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Bristol, CO 02:33:30 DAVE GOES OUT
Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #192 (3/15/2025): MAHMOUD KHALIL
This Rabbinical Reflection first aired March 15, 2025 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.
More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com
More on Rabbi Sol: shalomdammit.com
TRANSCRIPT:
Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for mid-March 2025.
Let me tell you about a man who’s having all sorts of trouble…because he made all sorts of trouble. It’s a fella named Mahmoud Khalil, a foreign-born graduate of Columbia University now facing deportation even though he has a green card. Why would he be taken from his home, without arrest, and threatened with expulsion from this great country? Why would our power-mad president focus on this individual and make an example of him, even though he has seemingly committed no crime?
I’ll tell you why. Because this Khalil snake, that the left wing—including Jews — have embraced to the point of calling him chummily by his first name, Mahmoud, like he’s their innocent little brother, this Khalil got himself involved in protests at Columbia that did break laws, that did threaten people, that knowingly disrupted access to college life on campus.
Understand something about this Khalil character — one reason he’s here is because when he was a kid, his family to had escape their homeland of Syria. Yes, Israel is such a violent and terrible oppressor of the Arab world; meanwhile, 580 million harmonious, Koran-loving Syrians slaughtered each other in their own Civil War. Where were all the campus protests about that little party, I wonder?
Anyhoo, Khalil comes to the US on a student visa and starts working on his master’s degree, yet somehow he has time to get involved in all these anti-Israel demonstrations. In fact, he was suspended from Columbia when police swooped down on one of the protests that occupied and vandalized buildings. Khalil says he was just there to negotiate between the students and the admins, but why was he tangled up with these yahoos in the first place?
Which goes to why this is more than just a case of a harmless imbecile engaging in free speech. Or even hateful speech. Khalil can rant all he wants about Zionist oppression and Israeli “apartheid,” but if you are leading a group that creates unsafe conditions and then refuses to pack up its tents and go when the police say, “pack up your tents and go,” your green card hits a red light.
Khalil says he spent the last two years deliberately threading the needle—not getting too close to the lawbreaking, not spending his nights on the lawns or blocking pathways to school buildings. How prudent of him. And yet, despite keeping one foot on the sidelines, he still provided aid and comfort to our lawbreaking enemies. So you Jews who are defending this piece of rancid hummus in the name of free speech, wake up. The Khalil case is about unlawful assembly, intimidation, and destruction of property. It’s just icing on the cake that he supports virulent anti-Israel rhetoric from radicals who champion a race of people who frequently cut off heads in the name of religion—the religion of peace, no less.
So grant Mahmoud Kha-loser his due process. Give him a fair trial and allow him to plead his case: “Your honor, I’m a social justice warrior whose weapon is merely words. If I say `Israel should be pushed into the sea and all the Jews drowned with it,’ well, who’m I really harming? So please let me stay in America so I can raise my son” [yes, Khalil’s wife is eight months pregnant and ready to spawn] “so I can raise my son to despise the Yids as much as I do. God bless America. Hartley Hall Akbar.”
Should Mahmoud Khalil legally prove himself, fair enough, he stays. And he can wish Israel all the injury he pleases. But free speech works both ways. I can wish him a thousand kinds of cancer, and pray for his baby son to be torn to pieces and devoured by raccoons, who then defecate the baby’s remains into a felafel that Mahmoud and his wife are forced to eat at gunpoint. Before they’re shot anyway.
What? Offensive? Hate speech? But…but…it’s just words. Sure hope they don’t deport me from Great Neck back to…Brooklyn. This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, New York.
Segment aired Feb. 22, 2025 as part of the 978th episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 978th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, Feb. 22, 2025.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with author Joel Samberg; Greeley Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Brick Center); StoryTime: Floridius Bloom; Bunion Watch; Dave’s Big Dictionary (enema).
Guests: novelist Joel Samberg; spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:26:00 DAVE GOES OFF: Yankee beards 00:36:30 GREELEY TIMES 01:00:00 GUEST: Joel Samberg & Rabbi Sol Solomon 01:45:00 DAVE’S BIG DICTIONARY: enema 02:00:00 BUNION WATCH 02:04:30 STORYTIME: Floridius Bloom and the Planet of Gloom 02:20:00 Friends of the Daverhood 02:35:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Brick Center, CO 02:38:30 DAVE GOES OUT
Segment aired Feb. 15, 2025 as part of the 977th episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 977th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, Feb. 15, 2025.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with attorney Tad Nelson; Greeley Times; StoryTime (Let’s Count NYC); Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Breen); Dave’s Big Dictionary (livid).
Guests: lawyer Tad Nelson; spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN: snowdays 00:41:00 GREELEY TIMES 01:00:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Tad Nelson 01:54:00 STORYTIME (“Let’s Count NYC”) 02:13:00 DAVE’S BIG DICTIONARY: livid 02:34:00 Friends of the Daverhood 02:42:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Breen 02:46:00 DAVE GOES OUT: Carvel
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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with comedy writer BILLY VAN ZANDT
Topics include: Jane Milmore, Richard Lewis, theater, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bob Newhart
Segment aired Feb. 8, 2025 as part of the 976th episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 976th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, Feb. 8, 2025.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with comedy writer Billy Van Zandt and offers his Rabbinical Reflection on Gazaland; Greeley Times; Inside Broadway (Eureka Day, 300 Paintings), Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Box Prairie).
Guests: playwright Billy Van Zandt; spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: Amtrak, icy, Barney Greengrass, bagels, censorship 01:13:00 BUNION WATCH 01:23:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Box Prairie, CO 01:29:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Billy Van Zandt 02:23:30 GREELEY TIMES 02:42:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (reviews: Eureka Day, 300 Paintings) 03:06:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #191: Gazaland? 03:15:00 Friends of the Daverhood 03:22:30 DAVE GOES OUT
Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #191 (2/8/2025): GAZALAND?
This Rabbinical Reflection first aired Feb. 8, 2025 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.
More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com
More on Rabbi Sol: shalomdammit.com
TRANSCRIPT:
Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #191 (2/8/2025): GAZALAND?
airs Feb. 8, 2025 on Dave’s Gone By. Youtube clip:
Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for mid-February 2025.
I hate to say “I told you so.”
No, I love to say “I told you so.” I TOLD YOU SO! For 25 years I’ve been ranting about what to do with unfriendly Arabs living in Israel. Time and again you’ve heard me holler that if the Palestinians can’t accept Israel as a Jewish state, and if they can’t live in peace with their Semitic cousins, get them gone. Let their neighbors—in 22 Arab countries and 54 African countries—take them, assimilate them, give them 40 acres and a camel. Leave tiny Israel for the Jews because unlike Jews, Muslims can live almost anywhere else. But no, Palestinians wanted right of return and demanded their chunk of Israel’s sliver. That is, when they weren’t calling for the destruction of Yisroel altogether.
After years of terrorist attacks around the world, not to mention 9/11—which I just mentioned—the Mohammedans still rejected brotherhood. Instead, they gave mass murder one more go. On October 7, 2023, Hamas attacked an Israeli music festival and slaughtered 1200 innocent people. Hamas thought the world would go “tsk tsk” for a few days, and then be on their side.
Which is exactly what happened. Left-wing politicians clutched their pearls over over Israel’s so-called “occupation” of its own land. Every major city saw “Free Gaza” and “Stop the Genocide!” spray painted on sidewalks by morons who I’ll bet couldn’t spell “sidewalk.” And speaking of imbeciles, college students obstructed traffic and made their tuition-paying parents cringe to see tent cities, wanton vandalism, and anti-Semitism masquerading as altruism. The media ate it all up.
But then a funny thing happened. America’s wobbly, slightly demented president couldn’t stumble through the election-day finish line, and his middling replacement lost both the popular and electoral vote. Unlikely as it was, on January 20th, America’s previous, very demented president came back into office and began setting off policy time bombs from day one.
Some of Trump’s ideas are crazy, some unworkable, some brilliant, and one is my dream come true. After 15 months of Israel rightfully turning Gaza into Hiroshigaza, the place is unlivable. But just like Japan in 1945, New Orleans after Katrina, and Pacific Palisades as we speak, you can always rebuild. So President Trump says, “Hey, instead of 80 years of conflict, let’s have nobody occupy that shithole for a while. America steps in, contractors get to work, and instead of tenements, bombs, and sand, we’ll have hotels, high-end shopping, casinos, Starbucks, and TD Banks.” American ingenuity and dollars could turn Gaza into a `Middle-Eastern Riviera’—that is the President’s own phrase.
Of course the Democrats pilloried him; of course the terrorist apologists saw it as manifest destiny and nation building all over again. But I don’t hear Netanyahu complaining. And for all the two-state-solutionists who wanted an “international city” that the two countries wouldn’t fight over…isn’t this it?
What if Trump convinces Disney to put a Disneyworld there? Well, it would suck, because it’s Disneyworld, but it’s a start. What if the mafiosos from Vegas built another Luxor in a place where the pyramid theme would actually make sense? What if Chik-fil-A’s built fifty Chickpea Felafels, just to be culturally sensitive?
Mock our president’s bombast all you wish, but nothing else has worked in the region. We’ve tried diplomacy, we’ve tried self-rule, God knows we’ve tried war; why not try balls-out, last-one-to-the-money-trough-is-a-rotten-egg capitalism? Envision a day a decade from now, when Israelis, bored by the Wailing Wall, Egyptians, weary of the Sphinx, Saudi Arabians wanting a Mecca break, Emirati, who are just so done with Dubai—all of them think, “Hey, honey. Let’s take a long weekend in Gazawood. You book the spa, I’ll hit the links, and then we’ll catch Willie Nelson at Madison Square Gazarden!” Israel would be protected, Palestinians would have homes and jobs, and Paramount would have a cheap place to shoot new episodes of Yellowstone. Except, of course, that Gaza wouldn’t look like Yellowstone anymore; it’d be closer to the Yellow Brick Road. I say, Follow!
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, New York.
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Here is the 973rd episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Tuesday night, Dec. 31, 2024.
Featuring: Our annual New Year’s Eve celebration featuring Zoom-ins, Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection, a festive bunion watch, the Best of Greeley Times, and an orb dropping at midnight.
Guests: singer Natalie Douglas; writers Iris Dorbian and James B. Flaherty; milliner Mindy Fradkin; musicians Moshe Denburg, Brian Gari, Yaron Gershovsky, Steve Herbst (“The Whistler”) and Sylvie Simmons; songwriter Sue Horowitz (“Dr. Sue”); Dave’s cousin Adam Glass; Dave’s old friend Stephen Fisch; Dave’s mom Brenda Lefkowitz; Dave’s mom-in-law Rosemary Weil; theatrical producer Al Parinello; theater critics Charles Gross, Eva Heinemann and David Sheward; humorist Mark Miller; actors Jason Graae, Annie Korzen, Brandon Maggart and Vicki Quade; spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce 00:09:30 GUEST: Mark Miller 00:17:00 GUEST: Annie Korzen 00:26:30 GUEST: Stephen Fisch 00:34:00 BEST OF GREELEY TIMES 00:45:00 GUEST: David Sheward 00:55:00 GUEST: Susan Horowitz 01:03:30 GUEST: Eva Heinemann 01:13:00 GUEST: Adam Glass 01:21:30 GUEST: Yaron Gershovsky 01:27:00 GUEST: James B. Flaherty 01:34:00 GUEST: Brian Gari 01:40:30 GUEST: Iris Dorbian 01:50:00 GUEST: Mindy Fradkin 02:00:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #190: 2024 Farewell 02:10:00 EXTRA-FESTIVE BUNION WATCH! 02:14:30 PASSINGS OF 2024 02:20:00 GUEST: Natalie Douglas 02:29:00 GUEST: Brenda Lefkowitz 02:31:30 GUEST: Rosemary Weil 02:34:30 GUEST: Vicki Quade 02:42:00 GUEST: Al Parinello 02:51:00 GUEST: Moshe Denburg 02:57:00 GUEST: Charles Gross 02:59:00 LOWERING OF THE ORB! 03:14:30 GUEST: Steve Herbst 03:25:30 GUEST: Brandon Maggart 03:34:30 GUEST: Jason Graae 03:41:30 DAVE GOES OUT
