From Bokortoam, Florida, this is Behind the Bima.

On this episode, the Rappas are joined by a powerful and outspoken voice in defending the Jewish people, Congressman Randy Fahn.

A leading advocate for Israel and a relentless fighter against anti-Semitism, Representative Fahn has spent years on the front lines of political battles that impact Jewish communities across America. He has taken on extremists, exposed misinformation, and pushed legislation to protect Jewish students and institutions.

In this candid conversation, Congressman Fine shares his personal journey into public service,

discusses the threats he's faced, and the pressure he continues to withstand,

and offers an unfiltered look at what it means to stand up publicly and unapologetically for the safety and future of the Jewish people.

All this and more, Behind the Bima. This episode is sponsored by Elian Eva Ginnauer in observance of the art site of his grandfather,

Moshe Yehuda, Benid Yamada Levy Gennauer on the 8th of Kislave.

Welcome back to Behind the Bima after a fairly significant hiatus. Father Moshe, Yehuda, been medium on a levigan hour on the 8th of Kislave.

Welcome back to Behind the Bima after a fairly significant hiatus,

in which of Mascu and I, we're not Sepinacaladas and playing golf.

We were working hard, but taking a break from Behind the Bima,

we are super excited to be back and to be back and come to you from our new studio. New studio.

Now, this is a little bit of a different venue, Rabbi Goberg. Do you want to give a little context about how we ended up here? Yeah, the whole Pindavima evolution is, you were part of it from the beginning, but is really fascinating. It was never on our list. It was never one of our aspirations or goals. We're rabbis. We teach Torah. We help build community.

We try to impact people's lives. And even to this day, and I say this without wanting to insult anyone, you know, sometimes I got a call or email that says, we're doing a story about podcasters or influencers. I'm like, why are you reaching out to me? They're like, well, you have a podcast. I'm like, no, no, no. I'm a rabbi,'re like Shiram. And we also have like behind the Bima, but that's not like who I am, my career, my identity, my, my, my path. So, Corona struck and the world was shut down, which is in itself, something we, we all collectively try to shut out of our memory. But you remember that fateful day day it was a friday and we were sitting and we

got the local head of our hospital on the phone who asked us uh on behalf of the community the

all institutions religious included to shut down that wasn't the craziest part of the day what was the

craziest part the mincha right afterwards right after that we went into the shul i think it was

ten of us very spread out and we had a last

mincha there and it was a very emotional mincha because we knew we didn't know in the next time we'd be in that room for yeah we knew we were shutting down didn't know for how long this was the last tphilipid siwa the last mincha we'd be davening together it was very powerful and a couple weeks went by and you know we pivoted we were streaming like the whole rest of the world using zoom before

zoom knew how to have security, also suffering

from Zoom bombs, bursting in air, leaving some people still traumatized until this day, those who

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