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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with writer and TV host BILL BOGGS
Topics include: Spike the Wonder Dog, interviewing, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., television
Segment airs Dec. 6, 2025 as part of episode #1010 of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is episode 1008 of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, Nov. 22, 2025.
Featuring: host Dave Lefkowitz interviews theater critic Ben Brantley; Greeley Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Carracas); StoryTime w/ Rabbi Sol Solomon (The Pout-Pout Fish).
Guests: theater critic Ben Brantley; spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: desktop drumset, theater critics, washing machine, crochet potato 00:44:00 DAVE GOES AWAY: Boston 01:15:00 GUEST: Ben Brantley 02:15:00 STORYTIME w/ Rabbi Sol Solomon: “The Pout-Pout Fish” (by Deborah Diesen) 02:33:00 GREELEY TIMES 02:48:00 Friends of the Daverhood 02:54:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Carracas, CO 02:58:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for September 20, 2025.
It is an honor, a privilege, and a joy to wish Duvid Lefkowitz mazel on his 1000th episode of the Dave’s Gone By radio-internet-podcast-Morse Code program. This would be a stunning achievement even if he didn’t spend three full hours a week talking his head off about absolutely nothing. But he manages this feat in a surprisingly non-annoying way, and has been doing so for 24 years.
I was there from the very beginning, you know. On the debut episode of Dave’s Gone By, the host brought me on to talk about breast-cancer awareness. I am aware of both breasts and cancer, so this was a natural fit for me. Despite complaints to the radio station about my calling breasts “boobs,” instead of—I dunno, hooters, jugs, melons, or love lumps—my segment was a hit. And it set the template for what would become my Rabbinical Reflections—mini-sermons about life, Judaism, politics, and my non-stop nagging prostate.
Today marks my 198th Rabbinical Reflection, and I thank Dave for allowing me this platform to expound upon my small world at large. It hasn’t been easy. My defense of Israel and Zionism has cost Dave a number of friends. They’re self-hating Jews and miserable anti-Semite bastards, but still, they’re missed. By the same token, I am appalled at the MAGA cancel culture going on right now, with late-night television hosts in the crosshairs of a despotic purge. I hate to say it, but the left-wingers were right: Columbia gadfly Mahmoud Khalil might be a lump of rancid hummus, but if he wasn’t breaking any laws, he had the right to peaceful protest, whether he was an American citizen or just a visa visitor. Now he’s being deported, and the government has gone from over-prosecuting “hate speech” to indirectly silencing anyone who doesn’t bow down to the orange clown.
So Dave, I celebrate your longevity and success. Such as it is. But I also urge you to speak your mind. You’re no Steven Colbert. You’re no Jimmy Kimmel. (If you were, let’s face it, you’d still be banging Sarah Silverman.) But you are you, an opinionated aging Jew with a moral sense of right and wrong and the linguistic skill to share your beliefs with those willing to listen. And if you’re sometimes reticent to tackle certain subjects and put your tuchas on the line for free expression, I am generally not. I promise, oh Captain, that as long as you keep allowing me to be part of your podosphere, whether doing interviews, Reflections, or baking shmura matzohs for you and your lovely missus, I will remain me. I will say what I feel needs saying, seriously or joking, and if ABC or Disney or Paramount-Skydance doesn’t like it, shtup `em. It’s not like they’re signing my checks. (Of course, if they do want to hire me, please forget everything I’ve said the last two minutes and God bless our stable-genius President.)
No matter what, though, I congratulate you, Dave, on giving the world 1000 examples of your humorosity. As you know, without comedy, irony, silliness, self-reflection, and a healthy b.s. meter—plus a little showbiz b.s.—this world would be a poorer place. Or just Newsmax.
I will close, Duvid, with a poem I have composed in your honor:
Hear, O Israel, about a Jewish guy
Who created a show called “Dave’s Gone By”
He tells of his bunions, his harelip, and phlegm
That turns off some people, but guess what? Fuck them!
He talks about theater, sometimes to excess
He jokes about life and how it’s a mess.
He lets me do interviews, though I’m controversial
He goes for three hours—with not one commercial!
From terrible puns to trivia quizzes
To bantering with his unseen mizzus,
To crafting a loathsome limerick rhyme
Dave makes shabbos a happier time.
So, mazel tov, Dave, on your 1000th show
May good fortune follow wherever you go.
Amen.
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 999th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, Sept. 13, 2025.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews comedian Dave Konig; My Sick Mind (Charlie Kirk); Greeley Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Camp Bird), Dave’s Big Dictionary (consummate).
Guests: comedian Dave Konig; spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN: Show #1000 ideas, birds 00:46:00 GREELEY TIMES 01:04:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN: Mission BBQ 01:15:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Dave Konig 01:54:30 MY SICK MIND: Charlie Kirk 01:58:00 DAVE’S BIG DICTIONARY: consummate 02:16:00 Friends of the Daverhood 02:29:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Camp Bird, CO 02:34:30 DAVE GOES OUT
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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with comedian DAVE KONIG
Topics include: cruise ships, Friar’s Club
Segment aired Sept. 13, 2025 as part of the 999th episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 996th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, Aug. 23, 2025.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews actress Linda Livingston and reads more of “Spock, Messiah!”; Greeley Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned.
Guests: actress Linda Livingston; spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: autumn beckons, Potato Day, hot hotel 01:03:00 GREELEY TIMES 01:29:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Linda Livingston 02:19:30 STORYTIME w/ Rabbi Sol Solomon: “Spock, Messiah!”, pt. 4 02:36:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (news, review (02:45:00; Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride) 03:03:00 Friends of the Daverhood 03:08:30 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN: fingerprints redux 03:25:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Calhoun, CO 03:27:30 DAVE GOES OUT
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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with singer CAROLE J. BUFFORD
Topics include: cabaret, Too Darn Hot, musical theater
Segment airs Aug. 16, 2025 as part of the 995th episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 992nd episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, July 19, 2025.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews playwright Sara Farrington; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Cable); Dave’s Big Dictionary (embellish); Greeley Times; Bunion Watch
Guest: playwright Sara Farrington; spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: wildlife, ointment warmer, Colbert, Ozzy & Hulk 01:05:30 GREELEY TIMES 01:33:00 BUNION WATCH 01:38:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Sara Farrington 02:36:30 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN: Korean game show 02:50:00 DAVE’S BIG DICTIONARY: Embellish 03:03:30 Alumni of the Daverhood 03:20:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Cable, CO) 03:23:00 DAVE GOES OUT: nice hotel
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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with playwright SARA FARRINGTON
Topics include: A Trojan Woman, Eugene O’Neill, #MeToo, Judaism
Segment airs July 26, 2025 as part of the 991st episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #195 (6/28/2025): ZOHRAN MAMDANI
This Rabbinical Reflection first aired June 28, 2025 on 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.
RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #195 (6/25/2025): Zohran Mamdani
airs June 28, 2025 on Dave’s Gone By. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_8PqbgcvwE
Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for late June 2025.
Well, congratulations, progressive Democrats. Your efforts to transform once-magnificent New York City into a terrifying shithole are going splendidly. On June 24th, Primary Day in NYC, voters rejected Andrew Cuomo—whose only sin was hubris and killing a bunch of old people during COVID (ask yourself: were they missed?). Instead, these lefty losers pulled the trigger – er, lever – for Zohran Mamdani.
Who is Zohran Mamdani? Or, more precisely, who the fuck is Zohran Mamdani? He’s the son of a Columbia Professor of Colonialism (that should tell you something right there) and of a filmmaker mom who’s spent a decade boycotting Israel. Little Zohran got his start stumping for a Palestinian pastor and joining the anti-Zionist Democratic Socialists of America. Bolstered by these unassailable credentials, in 2020 Mamdani was elected Assemblyman for Astoria and Long Island City, Queens.
Like so many liberal Democrats, Mamdani has ideas that sound good on paper: raising minimum wage, free busing, government-run free grocery stores for the poor (can you say, Russia 1970s?), prison reform. But like so many socialists, he has no idea where to get the money to pay for this Marxist utopia. But that’s okay; all politicians promise pie in the sky but deliver olive loaf in the gutter. The disaster of Mamdani is not inexperience and economic naivete. His worthlessness boils down to one issue: virulent hatred of Israel. When you elect someone whose rallying cry is “globalize the Intifada,” who calls Israel’s revenge against Hamas “genocide,” and who refused to co-sponsor Holocaust Remembrance Day, you’re putting power in the hands of a dangerous, evil radical.
The very fact that Mamdani was backed by AOC and by Bernie Sanders, a self-hating Communist kike if there ever was one, tells you everything you need to know—except that this guy isn’t even Arab! Mamdani is Ugandan—the country that gave us Idi Amin, child soldiers, and anti-gay legislation that makes Yemen look like Rainbow Station on Christopher Street.
So, New Yorkers, when November rolls around, you have a choice. You can reelect Mayor Adams—who may not be Giuliani but he certainly moved the city past the DeBlasio debacle. You can go Republican with Curtis Sliwa, who’s run so many times, he should campaign in jogging shorts. (Actually, I think he does.) And, by the way, the platform of pro-police, anti-crime, anti-illegals, conservative Sliwa also includes pilot testing universal basic income. Put that in your progressive pipe and smoke it!
Oh, and there’s also an independent candidate: Jim Walden, a high-powered attorney who has as much chance of winning as I have of growing my foreskin back. Then again, the impossible and unthinkable have happened so many times the past couple years, I keep Ripley’s Believe it or Not on speed dial.
What I do believe is that Big Apple Democrats now have their own Trump – a scary wildcard they chose mainly to signal their exasperation with the status quo. Or at least I hope that was the motivation. The other option is that pro-Muslim anti-Semitism has become so ingrained in the left—even the Jewish left—that they’d vote for Bin Laden if he used the right pronouns.
Me? I fear for New York and America, not because Zohran Mamdani will build concentration camps or start pogroms, or close all the delis. I dread a culture that turns a blind eye to hateful ideology and a deaf ear to common sense. Too often, socialist policies meant to provide a safety net instead ignite lawlessness. But look on the bright side: there’s always sharia law.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, (you should pardon the expression), New York.
