Here is the 384th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, May 5, 2012. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with Jake Ehrenreich (A Jew Grows in Brooklyn). Plus: Inside Broadway (4000 Miles, A Streetcar Named Desire), Saturday Segues (frozen cows, Beastie Boys), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (France), and Dave Says Bye to New York radio legend Pete Fornatale.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guest: monologist Jake Ehrenreich
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:10:00 DAVE GOES OFF – Frozen Cows 00:17:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with Jake Ehrenreich 00:48:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – The Beastie Boys 01:11:00 Weather 01:12:30 INSIDE BROADWAY (news (01:19:00); 4000 Miles (01:31:00) & A Streetcar Named Desire (01:35:00)) 01:47:00 Sponsors 01:52:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (France) 02:27:00 DAVE SAYS BYE – Pete Fornatale 02:45:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Fornatale Segue
May 5, 2012 Playlist: “Sour Milk-Cow Blues” (00:13:00; Elvis Costello). “Bob’s Birthday Song” (00:16:00; New Orleans Klezmer Allstars). “No Sleep Till Brooklyn” (00:48:00), “Sabotage” (00:52:00), “Girls” (01:00:00) & “Sure Shot” (01:02:00; The Beastie Boys). “The Moon” (01:28:00; Once 2012 Broadway cast). “Cinco de Mayo” (01:42:30; Liz Phair). “Isis” (01:53:30, {live 1975}), “Arthur McBride” (02:04:30), “Bob Dylan’s New Orleans Rag” (02:10:30), “Slow Train Coming” (02:14:00) & “Dark Eyes” (02:19:00; Bob Dylan). “Gotta Serve Somebody” (01:58:30; Shirley Caesar). “Goin’ Back” (02:45:30; The Byrds). “Song for the Asking” (02:49:00; Simon & Garfunkel). “Here Today” (02:50:30; The Beach Boys). “Pack Up Your Sorrows” (02:53:30; Judy Collins). “Follow” (03:06:30; Richie Havens).
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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews actor and humorist Jake Ehrenreich.
Topics include: A Jew Grows in Brooklyn, theater, comedy.
Segment originally aired May 5, 2012 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 383rd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired April 21, 2012. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Dave chats with actress Catherine Russell (Perfect Crime) and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Melissa Manchester. Plus: Saturday Segue (Levon Helm tribute), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (in the Wind and in The Band) and Inside Broadway (Shrek and Marion Blumenthal-Lazan).
Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: singer Melissa Manchester & actress Catherine Russell
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:11:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Levon Helm 00:35:30 GUEST: Melissa Manchester 01:19:00 Sponsors 01:33:00 GUEST: Catherine Russell 02:05:00 Weather 02:07:30 Dave on Shalom Dammit on Youtube 02:16:30 INSIDE BROADWAY (Shrek (02:17:00) & Marion Blumenthal-Lazan at UNC (02:28:00) 02:47:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (in the Wind & in The Band) 03:02:00 Friends 03:05:00 DAVE GOES OUT
April 21, 2012 Playlist: “The Shape I’m In” ({live}; 00:13:00) & “Anna Lee” (00:21:00; Levon Helm). “We Can Talk” (00:18:00), “Get Up Jake” (00:25:00) & “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” (03:07:30; The Band). “Looking Through the Eyes of Love” (00:29:30), “Rainbird” (00:33:00) & “Don’t Cry Out Loud” (01:14:00; Melissa Manchester). “The Perfect Crime #2” (The Decemberists; 01:27:00). “Perfect Crime” (02:01:30; The Story). “Morning Person” (02:25:00; Shrek Broadway cast w/ Sutton Foster). “Blowin’ in the Wind” (02:47:30), “Dontcha Tell Henry” (02:56:00) & “Under That Apple Suckling Tree” (02:58:00; Bob Dylan). “Blowin in the Wind” (Joan Baez; 02:50:30). “Blowin’ in the Wind” (Peter, Paul & Mary; 02:53:00).
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Dave Lefkowitz interviews actress and producer Catherine Russell
Topics include: Perfect Crime, theater.
Segment originally aired April 21, 2012 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Dave Lefkowitz interviews Grammy-winning singer Melissa Manchester.
Topics include: music, I Sent a Letter to My Love.
Segment originally aired April 21, 2012 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 382nd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, April 14, 2012. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with monologuist Andrew Goffman(The Accidental Pervert) and with actresses Gretchen Cryer and Miriam Kulick(Open Hearts). Plus: Dave chats with folksinger Eliza Gilkyson. Also: Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (taxes), Saturday Segue (Robin Gibb).
Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: musician Eliza Gilkyson, actor Andrew Goffman, writer Gretchen Cryer, actress Miriam Kulick
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:09:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Robin Gibb 00:31:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Gretchen Cryer & Miriam Kulick 01:17:00 Sponsors & Weather 01:30:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Andrew Goffman 02:20:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (taxes) 02:33:00 GUEST: Eliza Gilkyson 02:53:00 Thanks & Friends 02:59:30 DAVE GOES OUT
April 14, 2012 Playlist: “I Close My Eyes” (00:11:30), “To Love Somebody” (00:13:30), “In My Own Time” (00:16:30), “Red Chair Fade Away” (00:19:00), “Close Another Door” (00:21:30) & “Massachusetts” (00:26:30; The Bee Gees). “Strong Woman Number” (00:29:00) & “Old Friends” (01:10:00; I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking it on the Road London cast w/ Diane Langton). “Generation Sex” (01:26:30; The Divine Comedy). “Get Up I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine” (02:13:00; James Brown). “Copper Kettle” (02:20:30) & “Ballad of a Thin Man” ({live Budokan version} Bob Dylan; 02:24:00). “Looking for a Place” (02:30:00), “Midnight on Raton” (02:48:30) & “Blue Moon Night” (03:00:30; Eliza Gilkyson).
(pictured: Gretchen Cryer, Gretchen Cryer, Miriam Kulick, Eliza Gilkyson, Andrew Goffman in The Accidental Pervert, Barry Gibb.)
Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews writer-actress Gretchen Cryer and actress Miriam Kulick.
Topics include: Open Hearts, I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking it on the Road, Jon Cryer, theater, musicals.
Segment originally aired April 14, 2012 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews actor and monologist Andrew Goffman.
Topics include: The Accidental Pervert, porn, off-Broadway.
Segment originally aired April 14, 2012 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Dave Lefkowitz interviews singer-songwriter Eliza Gilkyson
Topics include: music, Roses at the End of Time.
Segment originally aired April 14, 2012 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #40 (4/8/2012): Mezuzah Meshuggah
Aired April 7, 2012 on Dave’s Gone By. Youtube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mov2WBjah6k&feature=youtu.be
Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of April 8th, 2012.
“The mezuzah stays up!”
No, that’s not what my wife says when I take Viagra. It’s what a lawyer told the public after both sides settled a brouhaha over a Jewhaha.
A week ago, a woman living in a ritzy-titzy condominium in Stratford, Connecticut, was ordered – ordered! – by her co-op board to take down her mezuzah. A mezuzah, of course, is the tiny scroll of parchment that Jewish people put on their houses to ward off Jehovah’s Witnesses. We place a mezuzah on the frame of every doorway, so whenever we walk into a room, we know there’s a shriveled little piece of paper watching over us. Well, it beats a rabbit’s foot.
Jews have been doing this for thousands of years based on a mandate in the Torah that we should affix certain phrases to our doors. And not just phrases like, “please, no more menus.”
So out in Connecticut, Barbara Cadrenel, a plucky middle-aged Jewess, did what the Torah asked her to do: she put a mezuzah on her door frame. “No!” said the co-op board. “You are structurally changing the design of your home, which goes against our bylaws.”
How did the co-op board explain the presence of crosses on many other doors in the complex? Simple. The crosses were nailed to the doors – not the door frames. Ohhh. Must be nice to have a lawyer in the Klan.
But seriously, to me, the most infuriating part of this double standard was that the lady didn’t even nail her mezuzah to the frame. She velcroed it. Velcro! The best thing to happen to a pair of shoes since taking them off.
And still, the co-op board threatened to fine Cadrenel fifty dollars a day if she didn’t take the scroll down. One week, one lawsuit and a media firestorm later – I am happy to say, everything has worked out for the best. The co-op board apologized to the woman and said, in no uncertain terms, “we were stupid, we were ignorant, the only Jews we’ve ever seen are on `Seinfeld,’ please put your mezuzah wherever you want, so long as it doesn’t put some voodoo hex on our crèche.”
By the way, if you think I’m exaggerating the board’s dumbness, this is what their attorney said in settling the case. Quote: “I didn’t realize, and the board members didn’t realize what a mezuzah was. I didn’t realize the significance.” Unquote. The board members didn’t know what a mezuzah was? Is this a co-op or a yurt? And while I appreciate their apology, don’t tell me the second they started threatening this woman with fines and legal fees, and she came back to them saying, “this is a religious symbol. My people have been doing this for thousands of years. Walk through a Jewish neighborhood – okay, maybe not in Connecticut but in New Jersey. Open a goddamn Wiki page!” Why does it take a week of closing in and lawyering up to come out and say what you must have been told the first hour this mishegoss went down?
Now, I’m not pointing fingers or shouting “anti-Semitism” or calling for a Million-Jew March down Milford. I’m just saying that even in this day and age, when we know something about everyone, and we’re a mouse click away from knowing too much about everybody, it’s amazing how people can have no clue. Next time I see someone sitting on a subway holding a rosary, I think I’ll say, “Hey! Nice beads. Do they all go in your vagina or do – what? You mean that t-shaped thing in the middle isn’t a battery-operated control stick?” Well, whaddya know.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, New York.
