Hi everyone,

It’s a week of hope, despair, commemoration and as usual, unbridled rage. We caught up Friday to cover the many events of the last few weeks. Also we recorded this before the announcement of the Trump plan, sorry. Hard to keep up with the madness of the times.

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Also:

* Chaya Leah apologizes, and not to me.

* Yom Kippur recap

* Megyn Kelly chat - because you are reuired by law to discuss this if you have a podcast.

* Yes podcasts matter.

* Vote! And do it more than once if you can.

* Save us, Hugh Jackman. Ok fine, Taylor Swift will do.

* My enemies enemies also suck.

* Thank you 12-year-old Jewish girls at the Museum of Natural History.

* “Screw You” Judaism

* Call that friend.

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In other news, yesterday there was an amazing rally in Central Park NYC to commemorate October 7th and call for the release of the hostages. It was a beautiful sea of Israeli and American flags, and only 2-3 screams of “baby killers”, one from a guy on one of those wheelie things you stand on so frankly he may have other issues. We also heard from hostages Keith Siegel and Iair Horn, who were amazing in their courage, hope and humor. Iair’s brother Eitan is still being held by Hamas, and when they were held together they often dreamed of coming to the US. Now Iair is here (he jokes that every time he comes he gets to meet with the President) and is doing everything he can to fight for his brother and the remaining 47 hostages. May our nightmare be over soon. See Substack for pics.

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