#19: Special Guest - Aryeh Lighstone, Senior Advisor to the US Ambassador to Israel
Behind the Bima
Rabbi Efrem Goldberg
4.8 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From Boccerotome, Florida, this is Behind the Bima. |
| 0:05.0 | On this episode, the rabbis are joined by Rabbi Arie Lightstone, |
| 0:09.0 | senior advisor to U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman. |
| 0:12.0 | Rabbi Lightstone gives an inside look at the recent historic peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, |
| 0:17.0 | and reflects on some of his experiences over the past few years. |
| 0:24.6 | Also, the rabbis discuss some of the positive takeaways from pandemic life. |
| 0:30.1 | Plus, the Bocartone Synagogue Ell brochure and some of the exciting programming coming this month. |
| 0:34.5 | And where do the rabbis stand on Fernando Tatis and baseball's unwritten rules? |
| 0:37.0 | All this and more behind the Bima. |
| 0:43.8 | Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It's Wednesday night, 9 o'clock. I am your host, |
| 0:49.6 | Rabbi F.M. Goldberg, joined by Rabbi Philip Moskowitz and Rabbi Josh Brody, and we are here to take you |
| 1:13.6 | behind the Bima. Behind the Bima. As we do every Wednesday night, to fill you in a little bit more about our thinking, what's going on in our lives, personally, and more importantly, communally. So, of course, interact with the special guest tonight. We have a good friend, an old friend, an old friend of mine, and even older friend of Rabbi Moskowitz, and a roommate. We have the senior ambassador, senior advisor to the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Arielyt. Don't can't wait to bring him on. But first of all, let's begin by wishing everyone a Khadash Tov, a good Rosh Khadash. Khadish. Khadish Tov, I cannot believe it is Elul. It's really, really hard to believe it's Elul. One month from tomorrow night, we will be in show, please God, for Russia Shana. |
| 1:28.6 | Think about that. |
| 1:29.9 | Wow, it's ill you know I one month from tomorrow night we will be in show please god for |
| 1:27.9 | russia shana think about that well it's hard to believe I began my article this week and I |
| 1:32.9 | said that when this whole thing first broke and someone said to me I think it was the |
| 1:37.7 | fact checker actually who said to me back then the perm time could you imagine if we're still |
| 1:42.7 | dealing with this russia shana and I totally dismissed him and poo-pooed him I was like what are you talking about we're still dealing with this Russia Shana? And I totally dismissed |
| 1:45.1 | them and poo-pooed him. I was like, what are you talking about? They're going to get this under control. It's going to fade away. It's no big deal. It's not really hitting Florida. There's no way Russia Shana. We're not going to all be ensuring. Russia was going to be. Russia. Yeah. You thought two weeks. |
| 1:59.8 | You're like, we're closing two weeks. |
| 2:01.3 | We're going to be back open. |
| 2:02.6 | You said a video I sent you two weeks. |
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