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Sid & Friends In The Morning

Jeff Lax | CUNY Professor | 4-3-25

Sid & Friends In The Morning

77 WABC

Sports, News, Comedy

4.2826 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

CUNY professor and local pro-Israel activist, Jeff Lax, joins Sid to discuss a column he drafted in Jewish News Syndicate, run by good friend of the program Alex Traiman, detailing how Sid's alma mater in Kingsborough Community College is trying to erase Sid and any record of him attending the school at all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is sit-in friends in the morning.

0:03.3

Entertaining and informative.

0:05.8

Oh, you're my best friend.

0:08.1

77 W.A.B.C.

0:11.1

I'm Mr. El-Kly and God bless America.

0:14.4

And, yeah, I mean, I'm a Zionist.

0:16.9

I'm a loud, proud Jew that is so grateful to be able to live in this country where anybody can be anything.

0:25.0

Yes, there are going to be obstacles but not roadblocks.

0:27.7

And we have three Jewish basketball coaches that are going to be playing and coaching in the final four.

0:34.0

Todd Golden of Florida, Bruce Pearl at Auburn, John Shire at Duke.

0:38.9

And so don't tell me this isn't a great country. Don't tell me this is not the land of opportunity. And, you know, I just feel

0:44.7

my Hebrew name said is Mordecai. And as you know, the story of Porum, Mordecai had a responsibility

0:50.5

to speak to Queen Esther and remind her that if she did not speak up, that her people may all be dead the next day, including maybe herself.

1:01.4

That's right.

1:02.0

And people think I'd jump on this stuff because it's politics. It's not politics. Yes, I'm a President Trump supporter. I have been a long time.

1:09.9

But it's about our survival.

1:11.5

Like, this is about living, being able to live or die.

1:15.9

Because there are way too many people out there think it's okay to say from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

1:23.0

Well, free of exactly what?

1:24.9

Oh, you mean me and you me, and you mean you.

1:27.8

That's right.

1:28.2

And you mean my kids.

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