Episode 63: New York in the age of Tucker and Mamdani, with Noam Dworman

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🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Noam Dworman is the owner of the legendary Comedy Cellar comedy club in New York. He a lifelong New Yorker, a podcaster and an astute observer of his city and his country.

What does he make of the incoming mayor and his anti-Israel views? What about the rabid new antisemitism on the Carlson-Owens right? And how does he understand the weak responses to both by American Jews?

And finally: Will America weather these challenges, or has American Jewish life become less safe going forward?

Today’s episode is sponsored by Ruth Adler and Eric Weinthal and is dedicated to each and every hostage brutally dragged into Gaza on October 7, and their families. In their words: “We rejoice with each hostage family reunited with their loved ones and our hearts break for those whose loved ones were murdered or died in captivity. We would also like to thank the protest groups we marched with that have organized to help amplify our voices for over 700 days, including Run For Their Lives, Bonot Alternativa and many others. We will not stop marching until the last body is returned home."

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. Welcome to Ask Havid Anything. Thank you for joining me. I'm very excited to have Noam Dwarman here.
0:11.0	Noam is in my mind, New York. I'm just going to go ahead and say it and embarrass him. He is New York. He represents its culture. First of all, he grew up there, and he's the proprietor of the comedy seller, the legendary comedy seller in the village. And I want to ask him about Mamdani. I want to ask him about the New York Jewish community and where American culture is at, also on Israel, where Noam has some fascinating and I think really important positions.
0:39.3	And so we'll get into it.
0:40.6	New York, American Jews, what's going on?
0:43.8	What is this war done?
0:45.2	What is it like to be an American Jew right now?
0:48.3	Before we get into it, I just want to tell you for one second that we have a sponsor that we're very grateful for
0:54.2	it's a beautiful dedication uh... today's episode is sponsored by ruth adler
0:58.5	and eric wyenthal and is dedicated to each and every hostage
1:03.0	brutally dragged into gaza on october seven and their families
1:07.1	uh... they asked me to read these words we rejoice with each hostage family reunited with their loved ones and our hearts break for those whose loved ones were murdered or died in captivity
1:16.8	we would also like to thank the protest groups we march with that have organized to help amplify our voices for over seven hundred days including run for their lives bon Bonot Alternative, and many others.
1:28.3	We will not stop marching until the last body is returned home.
1:32.0	Thank you very, very much, Ruth and Eric.
1:35.7	I also invite you to join our Patreon, where you get to ask the questions that we tackle here today and in the episodes. You also meet thousands of members
1:47.4	and friends of the podcast who discuss, who comment, who share really valuable resources that I
1:53.2	learn from, and you get to take part in a monthly live stream where I answer your questions
1:57.7	live. So if that sounds interesting, join us. It's a great time.
2:01.7	It's a great place. I'm part of those discussions and it'd be great to see you there.
2:06.4	Noam Dorman. How are you?
2:08.7	Okay, Haviv. Thanks for having me. How are you?
2:11.3	Good. I want to introduce you really briefly and get into it. You're a veteran podcaster. I'm a new podcaster. So at the end,
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