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Here is episode #1040, “Goldie Lox,” of the Dave’s Gone By podcast, which aired live on facebook, Saturday morning, July 11, 2026.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with cabaret’s Goldie Dver and reads “God, I Feel So Sad”; Non-Greeley Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Copper Spur); Dave’s Big Dictionary (xeric).
Guests: singer Goldie Dver; spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: hot dogs 00:39:00 NON-GREELEY TIMES 01:00:01 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Goldie Dver 02:20:30 STORYTIME: Rabbi Sol Solomon reads Michelle Neitert & Tama Fortner’s “God, I Feel Sad” 02:43:00 DAVE’S BIG DICTIONARY: xeric 03:01:30 Friends of the Daverhood 03:10:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Copper Spur, CO 03:13:00 DAVE GOES OUT: Louise Lasser
Goldie Dver
Goldie Dver & Rabbi Sol Solomonyour host (photo by Stan R.)
For this week’s StoryTime segment on Dave’s Gone By, Rabbi Sol Solomon reads Michelle Nietert and Tama Fortner’s “God, I Feel Sad”
This segment aired July 11, 2026 as part of episode #1040 of the “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 episode #1039, “Empire State,” of the Dave’s Gone By podcast, which aired live on facebook, Saturday morning, July 4, 2026.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon reads “Who Dances with Dragons?”; Non-Greeley Times; Dave Goes Away (NYC); Inside Broadway (reviews).
Guest: spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/Joyce: t-shirt, Nathan’s hot dogs 00:28:00 DAVE GOES AWAY: NYC 01:40:30 NON-GREELEY TIMES 02:01:00 STORYTIME: Rabbi Sol Solomon reads Mary Cummings’s “Who Dances with Dragons?” 02:30:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (reviews: Schmigadoon (02:30:30), Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) (02:47:00) 02:54:00 Friends of the Daverhood 02:57:30 DAVE GOES OUT
Here is episode #1038, “Havre Nagila,” of the Dave’s Gone By podcast, which aired live on facebook, Saturday morning, June 27, 2026.
Featuring: Dave Goes Away (Havre de Grace); Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on bad coffee; Greeley Times; Dave’s new song “The First Time Ever”; StoryTime (“There is a Carrot in My Ear”); Bunion Watch; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Copper Mountain).
Guest: spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce 00:21:30 DAVE GOES AWAY: Havre de Grace, MD 01:31:30 NON-GREELEY TIMES 01:52:00 STORYTIME: Alvin Schwartz’s “There is a Carrot in My Ear” 02:10:00 Friends of the Daverhood 02:16:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Copper Mountain, CO 02:25:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #211: Bad Coffee 02:41:00 BUNION WATCH 02:43:30 DAVE GOES OUT: David Clayton-Thomas, Lorna Doone, Robbie Robertson
June 27, 2026 Playlist: “The First Time Ever” (02:33:30; Dave Lefkowitz).
Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #211 (6/27/2026): BAD COFFEE
Subject: Rabbi Sol reflects on a Brooklyn coffee shop’s anti-Semitism.
This Rabbinical Reflection first aired June 27, 2026 on the “Dave’s Gone By” video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
Rabbi Sol’s Rabbinical Reflections air on the long-running Dave’s Gone By program (davesgoneby.com) and are also archived on the Rebbe’s blog, Shalomdammit.com.
Rabbi Sol is also the creator of the stage shows, “Shalom Dammit! An Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon” and “Hate Speech…With Love: Another Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon.”
TRANSCRIPT: RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #211 (6/27/2026): Bad Coffee
(c)2026 David Lefkowitz. airs June 27, 2026 on Dave’s Gone By.
Shalom, Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon, with a Rabbinical Reflection for the end of June 2026.
What the hell has happened to coffee? It wasn’t so long ago that if you wanted a morning brew in New York, there’d be a guy in a cart, and for a buck he’d hand you a fresh Folger’s, with cream and two sugars, napkins, a donut, and a tip on the third race at Belmont. Okay, maybe that was so long ago. For decades we’ve grown inured to the Starbucking of America. Jackie Mason said it best when he warned us, “Coffee in a coffee shop? Sixty cents, with cream. At Starbucks, it’s Cafe Latte: 3.50. Each French word costs another four dollars. No tables, no chairs, no busboy, you have to clean up — and it’s burnt coffee. If you get burnt coffee at a coffee shop, you call a cop. But when it’s burnt at Starbucks, it’s a blend.”
But at least Starbucks, which became a global powerhouse when led by a proudly Jewish CEO, stays mostly out of politics. Three years ago some of the unionized workers got mouthy about Gaza, but that simply triggered the most Jewish result of all: competing lawsuits. Since then, Starbucks has been extremely careful to say, “We don’t support Israel; we don’t not support Israel. We have stores all over Arabia, but the terrorists don’t get gift cards.” Like Switzerland in World War II, Starbucks’s neutrality is disingenuous and cowardly, but at least they didn’t join the other side like the French and Italians.
Nowadays, however, self-righteous identity politics is everything. It’s not enough to sell an eight-dollar mochaccino to some Gen Z schmuck; you also have to treat them to your Instagram-based musings on social justice. It shouldn’t surprise us that coffee pourers think they’re experts on decolonization. The whole point of coffee is de-colonizing – getting the crap out of our colons.
But a different kind of crap is being served up at one java shop in Brooklyn: Poetica Coffee, which is run by a jerk named Parviz Mukhamadkulov – and I wish this Mohammedan would cool off. Poetica refused to serve a pro-Israel Jewish politician. The store wrote on its official Facebook page, “Hey Congressman Dan Goldman. Do you see how our coffee doesn’t taste like genocide juice? Here at Poetica we don’t serve genocide enablers. We issued you a refund – your money’s probably coming from AIPAC anyway. Don’t ever come to Poetica.” Unquote. Obviously, this Parviz guy is chock full of nuts. But he’s getting away with this garbage! Hordes of Brooklyn millennials who fancy themselves baby Nelson Mandelas are cheering this douche-nozzle as he sells his rancid Robustas and gives only the Arabs Arabica. You gotta love a coffee shop that creams itself over equal rights while denying a customer . . . equal rights!
Tuesday’s primaries showed the New York Democratic party moving even further towards radical anti-Semitism, so Poetica’s perversion should not shock us. Still, the gall of this guy’s blatant Israel-bashing, that crosses way past altruism into straight-up Jew hate, can be met only with incredulity and rage. I am heartened by the counterprotestors who staged a pro-Israel, anti-Mamdani rally outside Poetica, telling those progressos to drown in their espressos. I am disheartened by Congressman Goldman losing in the primary to Jewish kapo Brad Lander, a bleeding-heart socialist who parrots all Hamas’s talking points about the “horrors” of Zionism. You know he’ll be getting free refills from the eyebrow-piercing crowd.
But the funniest part of all this – and none of this is funny – is that when Poetica refunded Dan Goldman’s cup of coffee and tip (because, yes, Jews do tip), he got back $9.82. That’s nearly ten dollars for heated brown water. And people pay it!
So here’s my idea: the most expensive coffee in the world is called kopi luwak. That’s the one where an Asian cat called a civet eats the coffee beans and then excretes them. Supposedly, the bowel movements taste fantastic with non-dairy creamer. Well, Parviz, let me go the civets one better. I will eat a dozen coffee beans then climb up on your counter and shit into your mouth and down your throat. The flavor will be rich, distinctive, and, if you have an enema handy, sustainable. Oh, sure, you might choke to death, and that would be poetic – and Poetica – justice.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches, in Great Neck, New York. Good to the last plop.
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Here is episode #1037, “Captain Kirk,” of the Dave’s Gone By podcast, which aired live on facebook, Saturday morning, June 20, 2026.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with singer Deanna Kirk and offers his Rabbinical Reflection on the New York Knicks; Greeley Times; Dave’s Big Dictionary (longueur); Dave’s new song (“Make Your Doody”); Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Cope).
Guests: singer Deanna Kirk; spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: new shirt, the Knicks, unicorn vs. chicken, Gene Shalit 00:57:00 GREELEY TIMES 01:22:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Deanna Kirk 02:16:00 DAVE’S BIG DICTIONARY: longueur 02:27:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #210: New York Knicks 02:44:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Cope, CO 02:48:00 Friends of the Daverhood 02:55:00 DAVE GOES OUT
June 20, 2026 playlist: “Make Your Doody” (02:37:30; Dave).
Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #210 (6/20/2026): NEW YORK KNICKS
Subject: Rabbi Sol reflects on the Knicks’ championship season.
This Rabbinical Reflection first aired June 20, 2026 on the “Dave’s Gone By” video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
Rabbi Sol’s Rabbinical Reflections air on the long-running Dave’s Gone By program (davesgoneby.com) and are also archived on the Rebbe’s blog, Shalomdammit.com.
Rabbi Sol is also the creator of the stage shows, “Shalom Dammit! An Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon” and “Hate Speech…With Love: Another Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon.”
RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #210 (6/20/2026): New York Knicks
(c)2026 David Lefkowitz. airs June 20, 2026 on Dave’s Gone By.
Shalom, Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon, with a Rabbinical Reflection for late June 2026.
When the Jews exodused from Egypt, they spent 40 years wandering the desert. In fact, by the time they got to Israel, they were dead, literally; only the next generation made it to the Holyland. Well, 40 years plus 13 is 53 years. That’s how long New Yorkers have waited for a basketball squad to lead us out of exile into the NBA promised land.
In 1973, nice Jewish coach Red Holzman led the New York Knicks to a 700 record and a championship win over the L.A. Lakers. `Twas the season of Phil Jackson, Dave DeBusschere, Walt Frazier, Earl “The Pearl” Monroe, and Bill “The Senator” Bradley. Who knew then it would take five decades of often lousy B-ball to be-good?
But it happened this week! Kicking away the San Antonio Spurs in only five games, the Knicks, led by superstar Jalen Brunson, went the distance and gave New Yorkers a legitimate reason to set fires, overturn cars, and cavort like happy lunatics instead of oppressed ones.
After years traipsing through a wilderness of bad teams, selfish players, and dumb drafts, the Knickerbockers finally knicked their bockers. And let me tell you — it wasn’t always easy to cheer them on. Remember those two knucklehead Knicks who were interviewed by the New York Times, and when bringing up the bible, took the opportunity to bash Jews and call us Christ killers? That was 25 years ago, but let’s face it, with celebrities and athletes today, it could’ve been last week! And just in terms of incompetence, twice in the last decade, the Knicks went 17 and 65. Those happen to be my two favorite ages of a woman, but be that as it may… The Knicks were so bad, they made the New York Jets look – no, nothing can make the Jets look good, but it was easy to think the Knicks were equally sunk.
So there’s your object lesson of the day! No matter how hopeless, no matter how long the trail of failure, no matter how many fickle fingers of fault get pointed – there’s a way out of the desert if you work hard, change your attitude, get a little lucky, and make your own luck. Easy, right? No, if it was easy I’d be at Universal Studios directing Adam Sandler movies in Yiddish. But it is possible.
We celebrate the triumph of the New York Knicks — or any team — because they prove that collaboration, skill, and endurance can lead to glory. Alas, I couldn’t go to the Knicks’ victory parade on Thursday because of a bursitis issue. But I was there in spirit. (Interesting that Mayor Mamdani was there in the flesh and attended two playoff games – yet somehow had no time in his calendar for the Israel Day Parade. Priorities.)
But this moment is not for politics or nitpicking. It’s for the Knicks finally clicking and rewarding the true fans who kept sticking.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches, in Great Neck, New York. Slam dunk!
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Here is episode #1036, “Fox & Friends,” of the Dave’s Gone By podcast, which aired live on facebook, Saturday morning, June 13, 2026.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with filmmaker Joe Fox; Greeley Times; StoryTime “Self-Discipline in 10 Days”; Bunion Watch, Dave’s song: “French People.”
Guests: filmmaker Joe Fox; spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: Tony recap, RIP Cop Log, Spotify victory, roundabout shooting 01:05:00 GREELEY TIMES 01:27:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Joe Fox 02:03:30 STORYTIME: Theodore Bryant’s “Self-Discipline in 10 Days” 02:27:00 Friends of the Daverhood 02:36:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Conger’s Camp 02:45:00 BUNION WATCH 02:46:30 DAVE GOES OUT
June 13, 2026 Playlist: “French People” (02:22:00; Dave)
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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with filmmaker JOE FOX
Topics include: Don’t Cry for Me My Yeshiva, Rwanda, Orthodox Judaism, homosexuality, L.A. riots
Segment airs June 13, 2026 as part of episode #1036 of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is episode #1035, “The 21st Annual TotalTheater Broadway Special,” of the Dave’s Gone By podcast, which aired live on facebook, Saturday morning, June 6, 2026.
Featuring: Special Broadway edition! Featuring: Host Dave Lefkowitz chats with Tony-nominated orchestrator Brian Usifer, with Wisconsin critic Anne Siegel about the Regional Theater Tony Award, and with critics and journalists about the 2025-26 New York theater season. Plus: Broadway trivia and Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on the Tony nominations.
Guests: orchestrator Brian Usifer; theater critics Leslie (Hoban) Blake, Joe Dziemianowicz, David Finkle, Thom Geier, Charles Gross, Eva Heinemann, Brian Scott Lipton, Jonathan Mandell, Carey Purcell, David Sheward, Raven Snook, Martha Wade Steketee, Zachary Stewart, Jeffrey Sweet, Robert Viagas; spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce 00:10:00 BROADWAY FACTS & FIGURES 00:14:30 GUEST: Jonathan Mandell 00:28:30 GUEST: Zachary Stewart 00:44:30 GUEST: Brian Scott Lipton 00:59:00 GUEST: David Finkle 01:15:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #209: Tony Awards 2026 01:23:00 Giveaway 01:26:00 OTHER AWARDS pt. 1 01:29:00 BROADWAY TRIVIA w/ David Sheward, Jeffrey Sweet, Robert Viagas 02:16:00 GUEST: Raven Snook 02:28:00 GUEST: Carey Purcell 02:41:00 OTHER AWARDS pt. 2 02:43:00 GUEST: Brian Usifer 03:02:00 GUEST: Leslie (Hoban) Blake 03:17:00 GUEST: Charles Gross 03:29:00 Passings from the Daverhood 03:33:00 GUEST: Eva Heinemann 03:42:30 GUEST: Joe Dziemianowicz 03:54:00 GUEST: Martha Wade Steketee 04:08:00 GUEST: Anne Siegel 04:18:30 GUEST: Thom Geier 04:28:00 DAVE GOES OUT
June 6, 2026 Playlist: “I Want to Be Happy” (00:00:01; Vincent Lopez); Manhattan (04:36:00; Paul Whiteman)
