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Here is the 943rd episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday morning, May 11, 2024.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews singer Carolyn Montgomery; Greeley Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Adena); StoryTime (Sam, Bangs, & Moonshine).
Guest: cabaret’s Carolyn Montgomery
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: vanishing books, grey weather, Repticon, Mission BBQ, wildlife 01:02:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Carolyn Montgomery 01:49:00 GREELEY TIMES 02:16:30 STORYTIME (Sam, Bangs, & Moonshine) 02:43:00 Friends of the Daverhood 02:56:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Adena 03:01:30 DAVE GOES OUT
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Here is the 942nd episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday morning, May 4, 2024.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews comedy writer Bruce Vilanch and offers his Rabbinical Reflection on the NYPD; Greeley Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned; Bunion Watch; Dave’s Big Dictionary (agrarian).
Guest: humorist Bruce Vilanch
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: dentist, producing musicals 01:07:00 GREELEY TIMES 01:36:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Bruce Vilanch 02:31:00 DAVE’S BIG DICTIONARY: agrarian 03:01:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #185: Three Cheers for the NYPD 03:07:30 Friends of the Daverhood 03:22:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Acres Green 03:26:00 DAVE GOES OUT
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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with comedy writer BRUCE VILANCH
Topics include: The Oscars, Bette Midler, Johnny Carson, Dolly Parton, Judaism.
Segment aired May 4, 2024 as part of the 942nd episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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More about Rabbi Sol Solomon: http://www.shalomdammit.com.
RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #185 (5/4/2024): Three Cheers for the NYPD
airs May 4, 2024 on Dave’s Gone By. Youtube video:
Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for early May 2024.
Credit where credit is due. And I don’t mean the credit cards where I owe 30 percent interest on a sofa I bought in 2014. No, I’m talking about: let’s applaud a job well done in a tremendously difficult situation.
Ever since George Floyd — you know, the drug addict, thief, armed robber, and counterfeiter who was horribly murdered by overzealous law enforcement — ever since that subject for statues became a symbol for systemic racism, cops have been betwixt and between. On the one hand, they face loathing from communities where, admittedly, they behaved badly for decades. On the other, they’re expected to be models of self-control while putting their lives on the line. Picture trying to do your job when the very people you are tasked to protect are shouting to defund you. Imagine that you take pride in serving the Big Apple, yet you’re automatically lumped in with the bad apples.
And now imagine that you’ve been called to a college campus where hundreds of deluded 20-somethings — whose age alone would mark them as enemies of authority — imagine that these liberal loonies and BIPOC buttheads have overtaken a major American university. As part of their tantrum, they’ve camped out on the lawn, blocked access to thoroughfares, and even vandalized a building. The school President has hithered and dithered, not wanting to spark violence or squelch free speech, but terrified to lose benefactors who might balk at endowing a university whose main export has become anti-Semitism.
By the time Columbia’s leader, Minouche Shafik, realized things had gotten out of control, things had gotten out of control. What to do? What to do? Let the monkeys run amok? Surrender Hamilton Hall, Lewisohn Hall, Kravis Hall, the ironically named “Harmony Hall” — all to a bunch of tent-pitching yahoos who couldn’t find Gaza on a map, a map in a bookstore, a bookstore in a city, and a city on their non-stop TikTok feeds?
At a certain point, order must be restored. It doesn’t matter that the disrupters were non-violent, and it wouldn’t matter if they were there supportingIsrael against the demons of Hamas. They were asked to leave and refused. They were commanded to leave, and instead, smashed windows and home-invaded the administration building.
That’s when you send in the cops. With riot gear.
And that, finally, is what President Shafik did. After a week of letting the hyenas run the zoo, she called in the NYPD who, with exceptional restraint and by-the-book behavior, broke up Hamas on the Hudson. Crying sophomores, shrieking professors, double-talking outside agitators — rounded up, plunked on paddy wagons, and slapped on the wrists, alas, but at least temporarily out of commission.
This, my friends, is how it’s done. Because, God knows, the cops showed more self-control than I would have to these Morningside morons. The first one to shout “Free Gaza” would have to do it through a mouth full of broken teeth. The first holding a “Divest” sign would have to hoist it with cracked knuckles. And the first Jew tweeting “Cease Fire Now!” would have so much mace sprayed in her face, her eyes would turn all four colors of the Palestinian flag.
This is why I am not a cop. This is also why the New York Police Department — and every Blue brigade that’s been summoned to these conflagrations — deserves oodles of kudos for the job they did and the way they did it. I’m sure many of these officers agreed with the protesters — we’re not talking Einsteins here, on either side of the grass — but they followed reasonable directions in a professional manner, and they deserve our gratitude and admiration.
And when the green-tent vermin swarm back onto the lawns of Columbia, NYU, Yale, UCLA, or any other ivy-choked nest of minacious radicalism, let the liars on the left be met head on by what’s right.
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 chats with playwright and director DAVID WILLINGER
Topics include: Bring Them Back, teaching, Theater for the New City, Judaism.
Segment aired April 27, 2024 as part of the 941st episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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More about Rabbi Sol Solomon: http://www.shalomdammit.com.
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Here is the 941st episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday morning, April 27, 2024.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews writer-director David Willinger and offers a Rabbinical Reflection Passover Prayer; Greeley Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Ackmen); Bunion Watch; Dave’s Big Dictionary (assail).
Guest: writer-performer David Willinger
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: no filter, defunct things, films 01:01:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews David Willinger 02:02:00 GREELEY TIMES 02:25:30 BUNION WATCH 02:30:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #184: A Passover Prayer 02:35:30 DAVE’S BIG DICTIONARY: assail 02:50:00 Friends of the Daverhood 02:59:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Ackmen, CO 03:02:30 DAVE GOES OUT
RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #184 (4/27/2024): A Passover Prayer
airs April 27, 2024 on Dave’s Gone By. Youtube video:
Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for these last few days of Passover 2024.
A zissen Pesach my friends, and I hope you are having a fun holiday, with maximal contemplation and minimal constipation. Actually, this year is less likely to afflictus with intestinal binding than gastric reflux: we want to throw up at everything around us.
That’s why I’ve written this little prayer that you can append to your Haggadahs this Passover. It’s an appeal to God to get off his lazy tuchas and help us, just as he did in Egypt. He doesn’t have to show himself as a burning bush; he could set Ilhan Omar’s public hair on fire: same thing.
Anyway, here is a Prayer for late Pesach:
Blessed art thou, Oh Lord, our God. King of the Universe. (Or Queen, He can be gender-ridiculous). Blessed be He who sanctifies us with a holiday that deprives us of bread yet consoles us with Joyva Ring Jells; where we are scourged by horse radish, soothed by charoses, and confused by putting them together; and where we learn morality by letting a child hide the Afikoman and then rewarding him for thievery and blackmail.
Dear God, in these times of woe, when the land of Israel rages and Jew-haters have slithered from their cages, we implore thee to restore righteousness in the world. To vanquish our foes, as you did the Amalekites and the Canaanites, and sometimes the Monday nites. Oh Lord, protect the tiny nation of Eretz Yisroel and smite our enemies. For example:
May Hamas fighters see their tunnels turn to caskets, their caskets turned to dust, and their dust hoovered up by your ugliest cleaning lady.
May you lift the Palestinians up, up, up out of Israel and deposit them in a galaxy far, far away. Or at least Kuwait.
May Iraq get so fed up with Iran for being only one letter different, that the two blow each other to bits, which will be especially amusing to Jews named “Ira.”
May the United Nations vote to sanction itself out of existence and have to relinquish its New York headquarters to a Judaica superstore.
May every Western woman who supports the Arab world actually have to live, as a woman, in the Arab world.
May the marching students of Columbia and New York Universities be boiled in acid and then, ironically, fail their chemistry exams.
May the idiots posting anti-Zionist misinformation on TikTok be forced to use Dos dial-up just to get WiFi.
May the members of “Queers for Palestine” be bent over and their assholes stuffed with razor wire. And AIDS.
May every troglodyte who scrawls “Death to Israel” in graffiti on a public edifice be given a 1972 station wagon and forced to circle the building eternally looking for parking.
May every Arab who danced a jig on October 7th have their legs hacked off and fed to starving woodchucks, and may those marmots come back while the cripples are sleeping and vomit in their mouths.
May every Jew who betrays Israel in favor of “Palestine” be forced to eat matzoh made of ground glass and soaked in rat poison. In thy mercy.
And may whoever becomes President of the United States live four more years — and that’s a stretch right there — to see Israel triumph, her children multiply, her enemies divide and die, and her friends figure out a way to make even a bacon cheeseburger Kosher for Passover.
V’yimeru, Amen.
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 chats with writer-performer BOB SPIOTTO
Topics include: Joel Grey, Eddie Cantor, theater, Hofstra, Friar’s Club, Country Pointe, directing
Segment aired April 20, 2024 as part of the 940th episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com
More about Rabbi Sol Solomon: http://www.shalomdammit.com.
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Here is the 940th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday morning, April 20, 2024.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews writer-actor Bob Spiotto and offers a Rabbinical Reflection on Passover; Greeley Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Aberdeen); Bunion Watch; Dave’s Big Dictionary (gingerly).
Guest: writer-performer Bob Spiotto
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: fake paintings, quid pro quo 00:39:30 GREELEY TIMES 01:01:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Bob Spiotto 02:08:00 BUNION WATCH 02:11:30 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN w/ Joyce: social media, The Heidi Joel 02:32:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #183: Passover 2024 02:42:00 DAVE’S BIG DICTIONARY: gingerly 02:52:00 Friends of the Daverhood 03:02:00 COLORADO THE LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Aberdeen, CO 03:08:00 DAVE GOES OUT
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Here is the 939th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday morning, April 13, 2024.
Featuring: My Sick Mind (O.J.), Greeley Times; Dave’s Big Dictionary (brusque); Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Able).
Guest: Rabbi Sol Solomon
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: Mission, Mr. Nosenbloom 00:49:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN: underdog victorious 01:14:00 GREELEY TIMES 01:49:00 BUNION WATCH 02:01:00 STORYTIME w/ Rabbi Sol Solomon: “Intifada” and “My Little Picture Bible” 02:43:00 MY SICK MIND: O.J. 02:48:30 DAVE’S BIG DICTIONARY: brusque 03:01:00 Friends of the Daverhood 03:09:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Able 03:11:30 DAVE GOES OUT
