Hasc Concert 2023 | The Biggest Stage in Jewish Music | The Daily Thread, Jan 9th 2023

hello everybody and welcome back to the Daily thread [Music] my father is back over there in Florida well these are these are these are uh I don't know these are two places that uh that uh I think uh our people uh populate uh Israel and uh and parts of Florida that's it just Israel in Florida I don't know it's sort of been the no in that sort of been I don't I don't want to be presumptuous a lot of people a high percentage of people don't budge you know so I'm being presumptuous by saying people go to Israel once or twice a year people go to Florida you know three or four times a year that's very presumptuous you know it's almost like when you talk about last week we talked about peso hotels and you know I've written about basic hotels extensively over the years but it occurred I didn't it didn't shock me but it occurred to me uh that um that uh the truth of the matter isn't probably 95 of our people uh observing Jews don't go to Facebook hotels first of all it's a lot of money number one okay yeah it is and even staying home is a lot of money on Pace after that that's something that we hear about uh every every year about the high cost of food around peso it doesn't stop the amount of the price of the food from going up but at least we get to talk about it um yeah yeah so I I I'm I guess I agree with that number at the end of the day I mean there's most people are making pizza at home um we try and I think you know we have a barisham a lot of advertisers doing pesach in hotels and in Orlando and in Mexico are back this year um we used to have I don't know one of the biggest place on Hotel sections in the in the anglo-chewish media it's a small it's smaller now because there's less programs I believe uh and people also have their loyal um their loyal customers that come back year after year so they don't have to they don't have to cast such a a wide net but I spoke to one of the guys I'm not going to say which hotel of course I spoke to one of the guys this week I said by the way how much you charging for a room this year and he gave me an astronomical price I said how can you charge that for a room he says inflation there's inflation there's inflation yeah so that's the answer to everything you want to go in place like this year it's going to cost you more money than usual you know why there's inflation yeah so last night um I was by the Hass concert and it was incredible as usual it's the biggest stage in in Jewish music uh a lot of great performers and artists and you know the thousands of people there they really up there they up the level of on how they do things you know it's really it's almost like it's almost like a dinner plus a concert you know they really they put out a nice spread and it's really really beautiful and I spoke to a lot of the performers before they went on stage and and I was I was shocked how like how chilled relaxed and calm almost all of them were and then none of them are nervous they've been doing this for such a long time whether it's Sean lemmer uh Yakov shwaki like they're so calm they're so relaxed how many performers how many performers did they have I think that they had seven performers seven only um the Miami Boys Choir Eton cats uh Sean lemmer Akiva it's a dadya um you see Waldner they had a mentalist too so the big name was Jacob yeah it sounds for me like [Music] Evo Akiva is a really he was amazing everyone really loved him where was the concert in uh it was in the NJ Pack yeah it was in New Jersey oh really the Performing Arts Center yeah it was it didn't take too it didn't take too long to get there it was very nice um it was really incredible Hask is they're doing great things I had the opportunity to speak to backstage his father started Hask in 1963 I believe wow and he his father didn't have any special needs children but he was you know he was advised by his rebbe he said Hey listen this is a need and he started asked and um I think the first summer he said they had 20 23 Campers or 32 campers and now obviously it grew into something way bigger than that you know they have they're not building a hospital within their Camp even to just keep up with what they're doing they're rebuilding bunks um but it's really incredible and and as I was speaking to him he remarked that it's the yard site of his father last night and I was wondering if like that generally happens yeah if the Hass concert usually coincides and it says it happens listen it's doing the 36 years it happens once in a while so it was it was really nice um a lot of people there it's an incredible thing and yeah you think back over the years and uh they've always been um you know children with various uh challenges that were born for any combination of Reason their genetics environment uh you know we have an ad running in the paper now Dory charm is testing for you know very lost yeah genetic hearing loss genetic hearing loss you know so uh there's a lot of issues there's a lot of issues that required people like uh the senior Mr Khan to have uh to have a vision of uh how the most important thing is you know most Societies in in the world don't have this type of respectable dignified environment from which their young people or even older people um Can can live with uh with yeah when I was when I was there this summer in Hask they had a birthday party for their oldest camper who was I believe it was 65 years old yeah you know I I think I I think I heard that uh there's a gentleman living in one of the base Ezra oh hell houses that's in his 90s you know really that's what I heard it's incredible when you speak to David Mandel when you when you interview yeah it's coming up in the next few weeks you could ask him about that but uh you know for sure that this is this is what a similar this is how a civilized society should function and it's really an example for the world and there's many examples I don't want to leave anybody out whether it's my lifeline or camp simcha or Hask or this is just one of them yeah you know it's it's it's such a beautiful thing and um and such a beautiful thing that you know the government subsidizes most of this so that everybody could could uh could benefit from it you know um yeah actually I saw a movie I saw a movie about it um on on high flicks an Israeli uh Movie Channel which has some very nice uh films about Israel um it's called shoelaces it's about a developmentally uh challenged young man who's living with his mother his parents are divorce and his mother passes away and his father doesn't want him uh but he ends up reluctantly taking him and you know it's just I started watching it on the plane yesterday coming down here uh on my iPad and um I finished uh singing last night uh after my riff and before dinner unless you want to know my schedule and um it's uh it's a tearjerker uh but it's very real it's it's very real and uh if you have time and you want to see something that really will leave an impression on you for for life it's called shoelaces and it's on high flicks it's uh it's a it's a great uh which I should add clean uh thing with a great uh a great moral lesson it stars Dan Glickman you know then you know Dan Glickman is I do not you play Shalom oh you know you know rings a bell who doesn't know let's get to the first story for today the first story today uh via ywn is uh the title shocking Jewish man injured in an intentional ramming attack in Crown Heights a Jewish a Jewish man was rammed and injured by a vehicle in Crown Heights on Friday evening in an incident that the NYPD is now investigating as a bias attack disturbing incident unfolded around 6PM of the intersection of Albany Avenue and Union Street in Crown Heights when the driver of a white sedan stopped at a red light appeared to notice a visibly Jewish man across the street the surveillance video shows the driver appeared to intentionally turn and RAM his vehicle into the Jewish man before accelerating and fleeing the scene uh the the man who is um in his 50s was treated by atsala he was taken to the hospital for the treatment where Albany and the Union Street Albany and Union Street okay I know chronized fairly well I'm trying to find a picture um I'm not I'm not going to show the video I'm not going to show the video because it's pretty disturbing and you know I don't think people need to see this unless you know you're going to go out there and try to find the guy so I know that it says here that you see World showed the video um hoping that it could expedite the apprehension of the suspect and maybe it will maybe someone will recognize the car but ultimately what the video shows is this car making a left turn a man crossing the street the car maybe you know slowed down a bit and then and then accelerated and hit and hit the man and the man fell um I did see a tweet I did see a tweet online um and I want to pull it up about somebody bear with me yeah I mean like I'm not you know what I'm the first one to say if this was a hate crime that we need to we need to apprehend this person regardless we have to apprehend this person they they left the scene of an accident that's that's a hit and run right um but what if it wasn't a hate crime like it maybe it could have been just a your typical hit and run like it could have been I don't know it could have been uh could it could have been a lot of things you know I I don't know did the police conclude that it was a hate crime I know they nobody they're investigating it yeah they're reluctant to do that um there's a there's a tweet here from yako Berman yeah um who his position is he's the director of Ops survival and he's the public relations headquarters um and he tweeted uh yesterday about the hit and run video NYPD is being responsible and investigating all possibilities it appears from the video that driver may have intentionally driven to the victim but we simply don't know yet for certain either way jumping to conclusions is irresponsible um well first of all you know first of all if everything is going to every time uh something like this happens it's going to be labeled to hate crime reflexively we're going to get used to hearing about hate crimes it's not going to have the impact that it should have when it's a genuine uh hate crime now I saw the video too I I would hope that the objective of watching the video is to get the leader and make it a car uh maybe a picture of the driver maybe a uh a photo of the of the license plate as a way to uh to track the person down I'm glad to hear the victim is uh is okay um but like you said to me earlier I mean the guy was about to hit the car that was parked I mean yeah he wanted to get this guy so bad that he was willing to uh you know uh do damage yeah well what person I mean yeah like why would he he's not intentionally trying to hit a car well I'm not making it was it it was a really weird turn like it wasn't maybe maybe it was a drunk driver I don't know you know I mean it's very I'm not making this it's very uncommon it's very uncommon to hear of car rammings in the states like we don't really hear it I'm not making I'm not making first of all you're right I'm not making excuses for the for the for the driver we don't know who he is but more likely statistically it's probably a drunk driver considering how he was driving and uh probably a stolen car on top of that probably an unlicensed driver or a guy whose license has been suspended 18 times well a lot of assumptions why are you assuming it's a stolen car no I'm not saying I'm not assuming this this happens more common than hate crimes is that is that so yes so look it up okay look it up but the number of hate crime I don't know how many hate crimes there are you know it just more than they should be one is too many uh but this is more kind of a drunk driving and uh driving without a license and uh Reckless uh driving is more common than uh than any any of those uh uh other things we were talking about uh I don't know if you saw do you see the video of the guy that walked into a restaurant in Houston everybody took money out of their pockets and uh and threw money on the floor and the guy picked it up and then when he turned his back one of the patrons the guy's in Texas and Texas everyone's walking around with guns I think the guy turned the guy turned it back to pick up some money and and one of the customers sitting at the table took out his own gun and shot the guy nine times and killed him nine times yeah Oh I thought I I I thought it was only once whatever again like I try not to watch these videos because it's like really desensitizing I'll tell you the truth you know what I was looking for the video online no wonder like I couldn't find the actual video online but you could you could hear the audio that's when you can hear the shots being fired you know so crazy so well listen it turns out the guy was the guy was carrying a fake the the robber was carrying a fake gun so so maybe this patron of the restaurant is kind of going to jail for murder as of yesterday they didn't find the patron yet although they have a picture of him they say give me the one second the patron left yeah the patron the patron left yeah oh he shot him and left yeah I as of yesterday you probably should stick around as of yesterday probably should stick it I don't know maybe maybe he panicked you know not everybody yeah that's not a good move not everybody that's a gun owner walks around shooting people you know I know but if you're gonna do that then you're a hero I mean a guy came into a restaurant with a gun you're a hero speaking of hate crimes uh there's a a story here via JNS Pedic Veer orders police to enforce a ban on flying Palestinian Flags in solidarity with terrorists mcver vows to fight terrorism and the encouragement of terrorism with all our might which is it might seem like a small order from bengvira but it but you know there's nothing worse I mean there probably are things worse but it's never nice seeing you know after a terrorist attack is committed and you see the Palestinians flying their their nationalistic colors like this is something to be proud of so um which which police force is gonna like what a band does maybe in the book that like was it legal I feel was it legal before like if someone commits a terrorist attack it's legal to fly the Palestinian flag like I think once someone commits a terrorist attack all bets are off nothing beyond that is legal no it's an interesting band to make well it's a it's a small step and it doesn't mean that much it's a small step it might be I don't know if it's a step it might be like a little like a toe tap uh maybe it's your toe tap but there's more important things that happened over the weekend number one one they um not been there but Patel swarovich who was in charge of the finance finance ministry first of all you know in an agreement with Israel going back over 30 years about about 30 years to the Oslo Accords uh they um the Israeli government collects taxes for the Palestinian Authority for business that's uh that's uh done in in you know in the Palestinian Authority what the Palestinians don't have the infrastructure to withhold tax and and do whatever has to be done with tax money anyway they have the infrastructure to fund terrorism where they don't have the infrastructure the whole taxes right right so anyway maybe maybe somebody Israel insists on his way of controlling the money anyway Israel has consistently transferred hundreds of millions of dollars to the Palace city of authority regardless of what's been going on for many many years because they don't want they want to keep good order and as long as you keep feeding you know you know if you if you if you come face to face with a lion chances are if you have a couple of steaks in your pocket and you throw it at them he's gonna eat the steaks not come after you yeah so they keep throwing uh they keep throwing money uh um after them but uh this weekend uh they signed uh uh uh they created a policy we're we're two things number one that was holding that tax money now and they deducted some of that money two things number one up to this point if someone um inches or kills a Jew in a terrorist attack and he gets imprisoned the Palestinian Authority um supports that family financially for life okay so in other words there's an incentive to commit these types of uh murderous um violent uh acts so but now you would think that they would withhold the money you would think they would have done 25 years ago but no there's a great debate and a great tug of war that wasn't to withhold the money or not but anyway now the new de Tanya government is uh is withholding that money and in addition to that there is a a case called uh it's called the litvoc case and it has to do with a family named litrock nothing to do with literally okay nothing to do with litch box I was getting excited happens to be it happens to be the family name in which the Israeli courts decided that there's a group of uh families that were victimized by Palestinian Terror injuries deaths in families and they were rewarded by the courts about uh 40 million dollars but they were never paid because all the money gets passed from the Israeli Tax Collectors back to the Palestinian government which uses a good deal of the money to reward families who has a family member who committed a terrorist act anyway now uh uh Mr smorrich and his role as Finance Minister has decided to take 40 million million dollars and distribute it to those families who won their case I think it goes back to 2009 so this should have happened a long time ago but uh you know Brock Hashem it's happening now these are not radical or extreme things these are right things that that's number one these people should be compensated for the pain that they suffered number one and number two you accomplish a great deal by withholding the money from people that misuse it 100 I I I think I think they should withhold the money regardless I think it's silly of the Palestinian Authority to like to expect Israel to hold their taxes for them and then give it to them considering any any act of violence happening um that's how Israel works is you know you know how Israelis are it's their money second we're collecting it for them it's their money but what about terrorists no no don't talk to me about terrorism it's their money well how how come the Israeli cab drivers are not the same like no they have no problem they have no problem charging me 500 checkout to go from television to use live if I'm American maybe maybe the maybe we maybe we should get some cab drivers in the knesset they know how to hold on to money no first of all I I've said I think I've said it here in the past and I've uh realized just many many years ago um you can't you can't overpay in a in a um in a uh Israeli taxi yeah no matter what you no matter what you give them um you know once you pay the fear if you're paying something over the fare it automatically becomes stucco so you're giving charity that that's what it is why so I say that's what I say all right you passed it yeah I was in a taxi I was in a taxi and uh you know it said 50 it said 50 sheko on the meter okay so I gave I only had 100 shekel bill so I gave the driver 100. nothing to do with the computer so it was a it was a hundred shekel I have a lot of stories about these TAXI fares uh it was 100 shekel and uh he got gave me back 25 shekel change what am I gonna say you need me another 25 shekel listen he's an Israeli driver yeah yeah he's play he's playing you you're American he's playing he needed if he needed the 25 shekel he needed the 25 shackle I was happy to give it to him if the guy's walking around you know there's people that I've seen by the hotel collecting money for the last uh 40 years okay there's one guy that I always see and I always give him a couple of bucks you know so I'm gonna commits for money that I bring with me you know so I saw him the first day a few weeks ago that I was in Jerusalem going to Daven in the morning at the hotel and I gave him ten dollars okay ten American dollars okay not a great deal of money okay anyway I saw him the next day and he put his hands out against me he said Steph I said to him I gave you money yesterday he says oh did you eat yesterday huh really yeah so he got me you know he got you he got you yeah I was like a little stun and uh I I'm always gonna remember that okay so I should come when you get back I should put my hand out to you every day oh when did you stop doing that [Laughter] I miss did I miss something very good very very good okay that's that's really that's a really nice story um these Israeli they have they have the wit uh they would be incredible businessmen you know if they were I want to go down that field that's why Israel Israel is like the fourth the fourth uh largest uh uh has the greatest presence on the uh on the on the NASDAQ for example uh they're very high up in the types of Innovations technological inventions my goodness they're 200 countries in the world and Israel's number number four you know if the United States and maybe into England maybe into one or two other countries but of course they have that that that that Co-op that that tremendous ability anyway what else I want to give a big shout out a big Mazel Tov to yassi um who many of you know from music video with hopper freed he's rolling around the five towns doing his thing he got engaged really last week his Bart his fart was yesterday yeah it was in the white Jewel um beautiful you gotta engage to a girl from you gotta engage your girl from Los Angeles I believe her name is Sasha Frankel beautiful I think I hope I got that right and yeah it's beautiful to see it's beautiful to see um so big miles stuff to him he had a star-studded vote revalia Brittany showed up but Bender showed up valtizkid showed up he had a lot of people there and it's beautiful to see uh simplest and that's what we should continue to see is more simplest more simplest of course um okay so listen we there's this is just the beginning of the week um first we can it's like we're heading to the second week of January 2023. so I uh let me just finish up by telling you something about but um you know we we had a like 11 o'clock flight down here yesterday so we got to the airport around 9 30. uh you know and uh we we flew down here bro Hashem very quickly two hours 20 minutes very smoothly then you land and the uh and the pilot announces that we landed early but that's that's that's not just that's not only good news when you when you land early then they tell you oh you know there's somebody in the in our space so we got to wait we gotta wait till the plane before us clears out and then we get so it's 20 minutes so so much for uh yeah anyway we've only got a car we got here and reminded me of um a great classic who was arrested by the Soviets uh for teaching Torah underground in the olden days and they arrested him because he was teaching and they put him on a train to Siberia and they blindfolded him and he was on a train for 36 hours until uh he was telling a story when he finally got out of Russia and he came to America and he settled in Crown Heights and they said to him remember you're on the train 36 hours with with a blindfold on when you finally got there in the train stopped and they took the blindfold off what were you thinking he says I'll tell you I looked outside it looked like it was time for Memphis so I thought for mental so when I got it yesterday it was like a half hour before men Club so I looked at my schedule I reminded you of that no I wasn't on a train to Siberia exactly it wasn't the same thing did you fly Spirit Airlines like no I we we flew we flew Delta Brak Hashem and uh but when I got here it was about a half hour before America so I got ready to 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