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Please welcome to our stage, Dancing North.

It's 7.30 p.m. here in New York City.

That is the true acid test, if we have called me back listeners in the audience.

I told Deborah that she says, are you going to say something optimistic tonight?

We need optimism.

And I said, I thought to myself, I can do like Jewish optimism.

Which is, you know, when someone says,

things could not get any worse,

the Jewish optimist says, yes, they can.

I actually will get to optimism.

My friend and teacher, Rabbi David Inber, asked me to give this talk to the state of world jury.

And in typical Jewish fashion, I am going to change the question.

And refashion it.

Instead of being the state of world jury, I'm going to talk about the state of world juries.

In fact, the two largest juries, the two largest Jewish communities in the world.

Israel and the United States.

And we consider these questions at a precarious time in American Jewish history.

Consider just this past week.

Kanye West, world famous rapper, released a new song called Hail Hitler.

The lyrics, these people took my kids for me.

Then they froze my bank account, and it closes with

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