Welcome to Kill Me Now with Judy Gold. I'm your host, Judy Gold. And this week we have

a very special guest, a great kid. His name is Jared Armstrong. He has an incredible story. He's a basketball player who is trying to make Alia in Israel. And you'll hear all about what that is when you listen. But I had to have this kid on because his story is it's really touching and moving and I want to help him as much as possible. So I do hope you it's a one-parter and I hope you enjoy. He was a delight

to have on. Also, I will be at governors on Long Island on April 9th. So if you're on Long Island and you want to see the hilarious Judy Gold go to my website, Judygold.com and get tickets for my upcoming show. But sit back, relax, enjoy.

Hey, everyone. Welcome to Kill Me Now. I am this is a very special episode of Kill Me Now. As you know, you know, I have a lot of celebrities on the show and people who I admire. But this is a story that is so close to my heart. And this is a person whose story needs to be heard. And as you know, I believe everyone has a story. And this one needs to be told.

And I have never met our guest, Jared Armstrong. I found out about him via Twitter, which I fucking hate, by the way, as everyone knows.

And another halal, Joe, this is going to be a big bell ringing. Jared, this is the Jew bell. So anytime I mention anything Jewish, the bell goes off. So this is going to be a loud. This is going to be a lot of bell rings. So everyone, please be prepared. And I don't want to hear. I don't want to get any mail about and the bell and the bell. Fuck you.

Okay, so let me give you a background about the incredible Jared Armstrong. He's from Philly. Jared, like my son, Ben is a basketball player, although he's already out of college. But you are playing in the Maccabee games, Jared, this summer, correct?

I was supposed to, but this whole process just so long, you know, I fucking killed them. My son, Ben is playing in the in the Maccabee games, three on three, but whatever, you should be playing. So here's Jared story.

Jared is a Jew born to a Jewish mother. And I want the, I feel like there's a lot of racism. There's a lot of anti-Semitism going on in this country. And we need to address it. And I'm going to be dedicating some of my podcast. Don't yell at me.

So these issues that need to be out front and center, Jared was born to a Jewish mother had a brisk penis cut.

He embodies Judaism on so on so many levels. He reminds me of my son, Ben, except my son, Ben is not, you know, it's just so such an interesting thing. My son, Ben has never had his Judaism question.

Although he knows way less than Jared Armstrong. So Jared Armstrong wants to become a citizen of Israel. That's number one.

Number two is that he would like to play basketball in Israel. That's number two. Number one is that he loves Israel. He loves being Jewish and he wants to be a citizen.

But because Jared Armstrong happens to be black African American, whatever you want to call it, he is experiencing unjust terrible racism from a group of people who should be the last to judge people on the color of their skin or their intentions.

So that is why Jared Armstrong is here. And I want to tell you, I really love your story, Jared, you, you are a black Jew. And you know, I just want to say my mother Ruth Gold, Rest in Peace.

I grew up in a household where my mother said, where all colors, shapes and sizes, there are Ethiopian, you know, something that struck me, you know, you wrote this amazing article for the JTA and the one thing that really pushed my buttons was this idea that whites and blacks praying together.

I never really thought about that. It doesn't, it's to this day is so quite unusual.

Yeah, for sure, for sure. It is a most segregated day in the world. I mean, people don't realize it, but it is like Sundays for Christians and Saturdays for Jews, it's the most segregated day in the world.

And they probably would ever change, unfortunately, but that's just the way it is, you know.

Yeah, but hopefully it will change. So 70 years ago, let's tell your story. 70 years ago, you're a great aunt who was a daughter of a Baptist minister.

She, she was a daughter of Baptist minister. What was her name?

Her name was Louise Daley creating the synagogue that's here today is called congregation temple Bethel, but the family she was working for was Jewish and kind of, you know, got adapted to the Torah and then kind of things just went from there and then it just grew to my mom's whole size Jewish from Orthodox were formed.

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