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la me sh my oh on fore me Che the be be fore 5 minutes after 6: a.m. good morning everybody my name is SLE and this is your Jewish moments in the morning radio program and one of the reasons I'm laughing is because sometimes you don't realize how much noise a plane actually makes frankly a lot oh it's unbelievable okay uh it is it's really unbelievable I don't mind it all because this really authenticates and proves right where we are uh I never I mean after all these years you'd think you know can anything impress a guy who's been doing this for more than three decades and the fact that we are now doing part uh of a full radio show really a full part of a half radio show the way I would put it here from the plane as we're with neish in the air over the at Atlantic Ocean is the coolest thing ever I didn't think it would be this cool and it is in fact the coolest thing ever joined of course by Miriam Al wallik who is here and making fake Aliah with me how are you how are you good morning n good morning this is unbelievable would did you say it's up there in the cool Department it's certainly is and I cannot believe that this is happening we are uh we came up with this idea we um figured that if we split the show for Tuesday's JM in the am and we present half of it from the plane with special guests and half of it from the ground at the celebration that neish Benish has each time all the oim land in benon airport it would be pretty cool and I can tell you for the first 7 eight minutes so far it is very very cool and and this I'm sorry to interrupt the sound in the background the sound in the background it's the plane correct it's the plane and I don't mean the people speaking I mean all the engines that you hear revving we are actually uh on the machine we are inside the tube the the the machine that's taking all of these incredible people to live in his is real pretty remarkable it is incredibly remarkable it also was not an uncomplicated setup to to figure out we came up with this idea we both looked at each other with the please don't tell me you have the same idea and more than that please don't tell me this is the same idea that you have we um we're very proud of the idea though and we thank neish PES for not only partnering with us again but also partnering with us in this concept to do half of the program on board the flight giving our listeners a unique perspective into what happens on this flight in a way that they would never get otherwise if they weren't making Aliah themselves or if they were were not able to have the opportunity that we do to fly with them just to cover the flight now let me let me first of all I mean um the fact that now we're experiencing some turbulence adds to the fact that it's going to be more and more difficult to get guests up here right that Ding by the way right that was the getting to your seats fasten your seat Bel type of ding that you sometimes hear on airplanes uh so that's number one by the way no one's listening to that that's how you know this is an authentic situation yeah that now you know it's a real neish flight because nobody's listening when the telling you to sit down although I shouldn't say that because earlier we had real bad turbulence and people did sit down but this is mild and you know they put the fast and seat belt I'm sure people are mosing on over to their seats to sit down as quickly as they can but the uh so number one it's going to be um a challenge getting some guests up here but if you could in your inimitable style could you describe our studio tell everybody who's ever sat on a plane what this studio looks like okay well number one I think calling it a studio slightly overstates the setup that we have right now by the way props to ZK oh boy props to ZK is right zman you have outdone yourself oh and today's his birthday today's alman's birthday yeah today happy birthday to say happy birthday to ZK birthday to ZK um the situation is as follows we have two trade tables and uh a whole bunch of wires and that's really about it but the truth is that yeah and we opened up our trade table anybody who's been on a plane you know there's limited space on it uh but the truth is because he came up with this unbelievable mechanism that's really tiny and really able to do a full show which is incredible when I think about it um we give him the credit for all this and we're able to conduct a show uh here on the plane which is pretty remarkable there are a number of media by the way on the flight who have video cameras who are taking individual interviews and are walking around you know taking footage and whatever we used to do that didn't we then we used to walk around the plane and we did but now we're doing this yeah now we got a real Studio it exactly by the way next thing you know they're going to be there's going to be a plaque I would hope so who that's what we need to endow no wonder they put us against the wall for the plaque hanging of course oh that was a surprise as a plaque hanging ceremony in the second show imagine that so yeah it's a very interesting and different Studio than we're used to but it is uh certainly unique and a 218 oim heading to Israel and dogs yeah and there and there are five dogs aboard there's a canine stat that's how you that's how unique this flight is every flight has its own t its own taste its own feeling its own personality in this case there are dogs aboard there are three in cargo right right and there two up here and there oh somebody turned the lights back on and there are two um in in coach yeah correct they toing coach right yeah how they I don't know how I don't know who they knew they got the better seats I know exactly I don't know who they're sitting next to is more likely um I don't know what their choice was for dinner but it is a it is an exciting it is always exciting to be on this plane it is always exciting to be part of life-changing moments for all of these olim but this added element really makes things uh that much more exciting yeah people will probably be surprised to hear that we've never done this from the plane we've never actually done a full radio show from the plane it is the of course not it's crazy right it is a little nuts it is the first time but uh we'll see uh we'll see how it works out I have a feeling it should be it should be very nice and very interesting and we'll have a lot of special guests the um the the flight we mentioned is 218 oim uh the 50,000 Mark will be going they'll be going over the $50,000 $50,000 they'll be going over the 50,000 mark on uh in August during the August flight is our neighbor sleeping our neighbor is very much sleeping I wonder if you can hear our neighbors sleeping no I can't that's funny okay I don't know how good this mic is another way to authenticate that we're really out of flight somebody's sleeping next to us um so and and they go over 50,000 and the the work that they've been doing since 2002 is legendary at this point uh with all the people they' brought to Israel from North America with all the jobs they've helped people get and all the uh and all the um uh help that they've given people in terms of where to live and how to decide where to live and what to do with their families education wise and if there any other situations whether it's a medical license that's needed for a specific job or anything else any industry at all they have the wherewithal to go ahead and give accurate and important information to people so they can go ahead and do and do what they want to pursue their dream frankly and uh it's continuing now it's 15 years uh it'll be 15 years next year 14 years and just keeps going keeps going with this incredible enthusiasm R by F who's one of the founders said at the ceremony in Kennedy Airport that he's done this all these times before 40 some times at the been charter flights in addition to all the group flights and for him it just renewed each and every time A Renewed Spirit A Renewed commitment and renewed Joy there was a couple of very interesting moments I found at the ceremony at JFK number one I commented to a couple of people on the neish pfish staff and then to Rabbi fast himself that I have never heard him repeat a speech he gets up at each ceremony he welcomes these Zim he gives them a braa he gives them a blessing and he has a different message for each group and he has been doing this literally since its Inception but each time he gets up there it is with a renewed sense of optimism and and blessing and I find that completely remarkable there's no I've said this already there's no oh I heard him say that three years ago it it's not it's not like that it's not like the bar mitzvah speech where you're the rabbi of the sh and you can't figure out what to say anymore that's different every every single time he's up there it's Unique and I and I tremendously I give him tremendous credit for that and every group to him is unique which is so incredible and different personalities and one thing I noticed in terms of the personality of this group besides the canine statistic um and it was fun to watch those families at the ceremonies but there are always touching moments there are always tears and and there are always hard goodbyes to watch right but I noticed at one point that we wished a mle to the parents of of a family who was who were making Aliah you know obviously the grandparents in this situation and we were wishing everyone mle Tu I mean that's what you do it's a celebration it's a big Simka it is a big S but they did they those parents at that moment couldn't hear us and I thought that that was very telling we get on this plane and we quote unquote make fake alah and we sit here completely jealous and unbelievably humbled and somewhat embarrassed that we'll be flying back in a number of days and we long to be these people but there is all these family members that we have to look at that are still back who are trying to put aside their own personal feelings and emotions Etc and accept that mleta to accept the mazzle and to experience the joy right is is hard for the parents who know that their kids kids are happy and they're doing what they want to do but nevertheless it's they're apart and that I think is hard so that was a that was a moment for me that I didn't I didn't really grasp until until this morning yeah one of the things we always emphasize is that those moments before the flight and even the tech the ceremony of JFK itself has this real Bittersweet feeling to it because of this separation that's about to occur but once you're on the plane and all that separation has gone by then it does turn into a really festive atmosphere it's the party bus yes I refer to it as the party bus on and off the air and part of us in the sky it really is amazing all right we're going to be joined by some uh some wonderful guests and I think the people that uh most need to be heard are the oim we'll have some of them coming up yeah we have a number of oim who are going to be joining us on the air we have of course uh Tony gilbart and Rabbi fast will be joining us the dynamic duo as we love to refer to them we have a Columbia graduate uh who is a recent Columbia graduate who is making alah we also have somebody that you and I have discussed on the air before um and we adore him shakar azron now shakar is a personality in and of himself and we're going to have to take the mic away from him at some point you better stay on the air for that I'll be here we'll be here the three of us together but shakar is a professional photographer who not only covers every first family exactly every first family and every this and every that he is the guy in the know who has contacts with everyone but we'll see how many neish bfish flights he has been on but he certain has been on a a great majority and what he thinks of them and it's going to be interesting to hear his perspective I want to mention that we had tried to get a member of the LOL flight team to join us but that's not going to be able to happen because it was not cleared beforehand but I do have to don't they know we're an impromptu free form type of setup don't they realize that don't they see what we look like don't they see what they look like right exactly there's no signage there's no nothing yeah come on um but I want to just give them a shout out because we have commented before just how gracious and how wonderful the LL inlight teams are on these flights in particular because they know there is a mission they are bringing oim to Israel and they feel it and everyone is smiling and everyone is cordial and everyone is helpful soot to them for them it's not the easiest flight to say the least no it is certainly not especially when they're we're 30 minutes outside of Tel Aviv and they try and get everyone in their seats for those for those of you who have ever been on a Birthright flight or those of you who've ever been on a summer tour you know kids flight you know teenage summer tour flight you know exactly what we mean we imagine that to the nth grade it is with people of all ages behance correct cuz you're not going to find too many adults behaving that way but in this circumstance this scenario we also want to thank mayor crudder of cruder Photography who was with us at JFK taking pictures of the tchas of the ceremony that was going on and what you are looking at now on the Noam seal.com website on our homepage as well as on the app is a montage of photographs from the celebration this morning at JFK in addition to Olam checking in saying their goodbyes Etc so while we knew we would not be able to have a video feed here on board the flight we did want to make sure that there was a visual component to the first 90 minutes of this morning's broadcast and so we thank mayor cruder for partnering with us in that thank you mayor kruder thanks we have a lot of people to thank which we'll get to coming up all right so Shaka is joining us next shakar is on deck and then I assume we're going to have to because of the time constraints and the way the flight works I assume we're going to have to get to Tony in right by Fest uh soon after that am I right yeah pretty soon but what's nice about about having Tony and Rabbi F on is that number one hopefully we'll be able to have them on in benorian as well right but also they are captive audiences here they can't they're not going to run to Nach on sharansky who's coming in or this person who's going out or whatever the tech is not happening yet the ceremony the welcome ceremony at benorian that we all look forward to watching and being a part of isn't happening yet we're on a plane and they can't get off so we have them and they'll be here coming up exactly all right Jerusalem is calling as Miriam Alik always reminds us my name is nak seagull we are on the flight no joke Tuesday morning at JM and the a.m. what you're listening to between now and 7:30 eastern time is directly uh our experience here on the flight itself with neish benfish you are listening to JM in the AM from aam's open desert T history's children in every event are looking for a way to lighten up their load and brighter than the sun you shine Jerusalem you're on my mind you lift my soul you Echo the Divine the Providence that guides us so that we may teach and all may know the hand that may admonish or reward has given us this holy space Jerusalem to you I turn I trace my steps back to you now again Jerusalem is calling Jerusalem is calling here go through the Canyons of your mind until you reclaim the things you've left behind it's telling you this just might be the time Jerusalem is calling Jerusalem is calling there's nothing new the map is old it's left here for you to unfold a note a memo down from on high and lands upon foundation stone the messes you're not alone Jerusalem will keep your dream alive Jerusalem is call Jerusalem is calling here it echo through the can of your mind until you reclaim the things you've left behind it's telling you it's just might be the time goding you shall this he Jerusalem is calling is right and a lot of other great cities in Israel are calling as well it seems because a lot of wonderful people here on the neish Manish flight are going to be going to a whole host of different cities a variety of places around Israel to live once we land in Israel which is expected to be in a few hours we are actually on the flight doing the show as opposed to doing the entire show at Ben gon airport we're actually doing half of our show for Tuesday morning from the airplane could you imagine and the aforementioned shakar that we spoke about is here next to me he has been on many of these flights he is a worldclass world-renowned photographer and he can tell us what about some of the special moments that he has seen experiencing all of this Shak shalom shalom and B shalom shalom how are you sir I complain I woke up this morning very good point uh you estimate you estimate that this is flight number what for you with neish benfish I would say it's about my 20th flly to uh to Israel with neish uh and what stands out for you do you remember the first time do you remember the first few moments is there a specific time on each flight that you look forward to more than others tell us some of the highlights of being in the unique position that you have with neish to be honest being Israeli we never uh understood this feeling but uh since my first flight every time in each and every flight you find him very very special moment if it's uh the doctors are flying to Israel or you see a 3 months old baby sitting with a 94 years old beautiful woman and uh they're very very very like moment that you really perish like and for Israelis is very very hard to understand and uh um it's a really a great feeling to to see it do you have any photos of these multigenerational families where there've been three or four generations together making Aliah of course we have it we have I think uh once we had a five generation actually the very same photo wow but um I have to share with you and we mentioned it earlier that uh uh being a photographer and I travel around the world and and very few times in my life uh I feel when I take my picture I can tell you that uh by far in '94 when I took uh uh the picture of uh King Hussein with uh the late Rabin and President Clinton the White House I can tell you that I felt that moment I knew that I'm part of history and on many nees B nees flight I feel my photography and this is a really unique unique moment for me I know it's early in the flight anything that stands out aside from being with us anything that stands out that's pretty good by the way with us is pretty good I can't complain aside from that anything that stands out after all these trips could something be different about today's flight and all the others so first being with you I know that I'm already invited to the next suot that's the first thing but uh it it was very special want to see five twins actually five sets of twins are aboard and it's it's think about the odds how many flights you can see five sets of twin on the very same flight that's cool so and you know what looking at them uh going to five different cities um that's another special moment and over here they all Bor that they're not there is nothing to do with po politics over here there is nothing to do um you really appreciate those moments now as a photographer and someone like yourself who's well known and I'm being serious now for a moment well known around the world it is it's established and it is welln that people like you have a Keen Eye like I don't know how many others would have either noticed or paid much attention to the fact how cool it is that there's five sets of twins and that they're part of this whole experience what is it about that Keen Eye that gives you an ability to photograph something or figure out that this should be photographed that others may not see you know that's very interesting because uh very often I've been asked about um all those phones Instagram everybody are photographers right now and and that's great for us for photographers because we can show a different angle a different moment than anyone else can show and having said that it's all about 3 seconds and what I mean is before you take the picture and this is a tip for all uh our young photographers before you take the picture think think for a second is this is the right image can we add something else to this image um do you feel it and you know what before you click give him a few more seconds because the mother yes she's crying but she in two seconds she can put her hand on his shoulder and that's the image and today when we're shooting with our phones we're shooting and shooting and shooting and doing the editing actually at home and in order to be a great photographer you have to edit while you're shooting do we officially call call you a member of the paparazzi or is that a degrading term um I don't call Paparazzi photographers I can tell you that they are there are spies with cameras there are spies with cameras you don't have to be there's nothing to to do with art there is nothing to do with photography there's nothing to do with uh uh lighting it's just being the right place the right time um and it's really I don't think they belong to the W photography should we ask shakar a question it must be asked before we let him go obviously but of course you ready I'm ready the most famous or proudest moment for you in the world of Photography the image that you are most proud of that you took over your career um to be honest we spoke about it and and really really to be at the White House with President Clinton and King Hussein and Rabin and you know what I'll I'll share with you a very short story that years later uh I asked uh uh President Clinton assistant to sign if he can sign the photo for me the president so he went to his room he came back without a photo and he said the president would like to see you and I got into the room the president say hi I'm B said well hi I'm Shahar Mr President and he signed a photo and he said you know he put his hand on my shoulder and said this was one of the happiest days of my life and I miss this man so much sh wow interesting is there a my I do you mind if I jump in not at all is there a photograph you wish you hadn't taken Hayden taken I can tell you there are one or two images that I could take and I didn't as of respect to uh the person wow and one of them is was a uh Israeli goalkeeper who di in a car accident many many years ago and we got to the scene uh we got to his father restaurant and we saw his father sitting outside partying having fun and we knew that he didn't know that his son had died so that's one of those moments that I was with another journalist and we love this man very much and we agreed just not to pick up the camera leave the place and come an hour later so uh do you agree with me that only would happen in Israel that seems like it only happen in Israel I I agree with you but I but that's also It's a Wonderful commentary on shakar and on the respect that people have that a real photojournalist has exactly but unfortunately we're so lacking that in today's society that kind of human approach it's all about the get it's all about gacha as opposed to respecting the person and so hearing that story is very heartwarming H and now we have to admit Shaka is the real deal with all the joking around we've had with him over all these trips now we have to we got the real deal he's the guy he's the man just to be clear Mr seagull is my PR agent in the last few years or so now thank you so much well we we love associating with you yes shakar who's going to be easier for you to photograph Hillary or Trump well um you've had more experience with Hillary I hope President Clinton she will do well there you go now we know where he wants to be is and for the 20s something time for you beautiful thank you thank you unbelievable uh we learned a lot of that I'll tell you that much that's for sure more coming up here at JM and the am as we continue on the plane could you imagine we are on a moving aircraft we are on an aircraft we are move we are on a moving aircraft being led by some responsible pilot just feet away from us that is true it's also fun just to give people a perspective of what's going on there are a number of people who are gathered in front of us shmoozing like they would on any other LL flight there are kids running around behind us running up and down the aisles because of course they have nowhere to go and there's a tremendous amount of energy lied space in the exactly that was one of the best pieces of advice by the way that I got from my aunt who has seven children of her own the first time we flew she told me she's like let them run around there's nowhere to go just let them get it out then there's the gentleman next to me who's enjoying some RNR and some sleep and there are people in pajamas because it's it's night time in Israel are you getting the feeling there's some networking going on in this section as we do the show I'm getting the feeling that there's more than networking that there's like you know Hawk strategy at Hawk exactly going on I feel a little left out to be honest but uh but we got a job to do here all right who uh who's coming up next after this song I'm not telling you all right we'll have a special guest no doubt Miriam alal joins me Al seagull as we continue on this amazing flight a flight to Israel that is only a one-way flight for 218 people nefes Benish uh information by the way for you to start your very own uh application for alyah 8664 Aliyah 866 number 4 and then a i a and NBN org.il NBN dog. you are listening to JM in the A.M been a lot of places I've been all around the world seen a lot of faces never know where I was on the horizon oo well I know I know I know I know so we be rising back home no we won't forget where we came from the city won't change us we be to the same job no we won't forget where we came from the city won't change us we beat to the same job don't forget when you belong I'm going home to the place where I belong forget where you belong I'm going home no you think you got me all wrong I'm going home to the place where I your love has always been enough for me you say that it's hard to commit to it you say that it's hard standing still don't you know that I spend all my nights counting backwards the days till I'm home only New York so so far away promise this city won't get in our way when you're scared and alone just know that I'm already home be clear don't pay no mind to the demons they fill you with fear the trouble it might drag you down you get lost you can always be just know you're not alone I'm going to make this place I'm coming home coming home tell the world I'm coming home let the rain wash away all the pain of yesterday I know my kingom awaits and they forgiv my mistakes I'm coming home coming home the world I'm coming feels like I'm all the way back where I'm and no matter where we go we always find our way back home no matter where we go we always find a way back home it's the maab Beats they do a good job on that song it's called home and a lot of people are going home on the flight where we are sitting right now and enjoying a live well almost live uh broadcast here at JM and the am we're on a plane can you believe it Miriam wall on a plane that's what they tell me that's what the big LL sign above our head says crazy exactly uh with me is Marissa young Marissa young is until now until today a resident of West Hemstead New York after today she'll be a resident of what city in Israel uh your all right good old Jerusalem we love Jerusalem uh she's a recent graduate from Columbia is Columbia the joke they all say it is it is a joke right that's not such a joke I'm I'm kidding her out don't worry believe me I couldn't last a DAT in a place like that trust me I'm fine with that no I know Columbia is a tremend this academic institution did you have a good experience there as a Jewish youngster was it a good experience I know you know how it is on these ivy league campuses these days not everything's easy was it fine for you are you wearing youre old question are you wearing your Columbia Hill shirt I am which shows that I am a proud graduate I did have a good experience there the Jewish Community was amazing really really all our listeners need to hear that that there's some wonderful places around the country to get a good education and to be a proud Jew no it's true it's true it's there's a ton of Jews and I made some really really amazing friends all right Marissa young is here she's heading to Israel why when did you make this decision what was that thought process like this decision has been a long time coming um can I ask how old you are I'm just curious I'm 21 I'll be 22 next Mon it's been a long time coming which means what since the age of 10 you've been thinking of moving to Israel actually it's funny you mentioned 10 because I went to Israel for the first time when I was 10 and I wrote in my journal on that day that I was fulfilling a lifelong dream which is kind of funny because what 10-year-olds has a lifelong dream but yeah it's been it's been coming my whole life I think it wasn't so much of a decision as like natural um I wanted to go to Israel ever since I can remember and after I did it was just this is not following in someone's footsteps or being encouraged by anybody this was your own mission um well my family's very zionis we love Israel we support Israel you know big parade goers with the signs um specifically my grandmother is um my whole life was always talking about you know how important it is to support the state of Israel and our soldiers and she would buy things from that are made in Israel even if she didn't need them just they were made in Israel oh she says sounds wonderful um so you're heading to Jerusalem you are you are what fill in the blank how would you describe your emotions right now how would you describe what you're going through how would you describe how you feel at the moment the most mixed emotions I am so so so excited um and yet a few hours ago was was one of the hardest things to leave my family it was it was very emotional really really sad but are you nervous are you nervous about what awaits you on the other side of the world who's not nervous to move 6,000 mil away yeah I guess but I know there's a lot of good people there and I have good friends and family and what are your plans anything lined up yet I'm actually going to the Army very nice call cavod and is that all set like is that something you could do from the United States and just make all the arrang and know when you're heading in or not so it's actually not um unless you go through a program like G sabar which I'm not um but mostly I've just been talking to a lot of people trying to get as much information as possible and the second I land that's when Showtime starts and you could be in the Army as early as they say it takes like four to 6 months but it's not really you know it's like a big any big bureaucracy you're not really going to get answers 21-year-old woman heading to the Israeli Army who just grabbed graduated colia and I'm wondering how she's going to apply her colia degree as an Ola good question um that's something that I really really hope to be doing I studied political science and international relations and uh there's a lot of things in the army that are related to that so I hope to get a job that has something to do with foreign affairs or um strategic policy um maybe Army spokesperson there's there's a lot of units that I'm interested in so I'm trying to keep my options open how's your Hebrew it's pretty good it is pretty good where did you study abroad for uh for you Gap year yeah I did I studied at MES at harova in The Old City cool um I mean I learned Hebrew my whole life and I went to Hank for um you know Elementary School through high school um and then after that it was pretty much watching K every day and um Israeli TV music you know unbelievable I found that my Seminary year when I could understand the news in Hebrew I knew that my Hebrew had reached a certain level yeah it's really satisfying right oh it certainly is and to yell at someone in Hebrew is also very satisfying and not sound like an American when is your family coming to visit uh I'm sure there are plans hopefully as soon as possible um maybe November no flights are booked but they'll be there Marissa Young from West Hemstead New York graduate of Colombia and heading to Israel on this flight have you met anybody you know on this flight uh yeah a few people that I know from like like that I've met met here and there no one that I know well right um so I I'm alone on the flight and well you're not alone you got all these great people to party with as you start to uh get closer and closer to Beno airport so you took political science any of your favorite historical figures in the world of government whether Israel United States or anywhere else whoa um I'm right now I'm hoping you're a Hamilton fan at this point Hamilton Hamilton I I haven't you mean the play or the person well yes everybody in New York means most historians in your field think the person we have someone who thinks the play I haven't seen the play I'm moving to Isel so I'm trying to save my money exact but um but Hamilton the historical figure is great big fan of Reagan uh I mean if you want to go with Israeli politics there's plenty um ban for sure there you go um now we know I I love the book the book The Prime Ministers is a favorite of mine phenomenal book she's not 21 this kid is not 21 I know it doesn't seem anybody who just said the prime ministers is one of her favorite books exactly and of course when I was handed the book book I was like that's a 700 pages long well you should be proud of yourself thank you if that's one of your favorite books well good luck Marissa Marissa young West hempston normally I would say Round of Applause but I don't know if this audience will oh look at that our audience is comp and Round of Applause for Marissa and all the young o and good luck to you thank you for joining us today thank you so much well there you have it our first Ola of the day this is I it's unbelievable I know I'm shepping for you I'm shepping you're you're fantastic you are unbelievable you're unbelievable and you're doing it at so the right time you really are we are we are incredibly jealous and increasingly humbled as this flight goes on as this broadcast goes on I can think of much stronger words to use by myself and I'll take humble okay we'll take that we'll take that thank you very much more coming up keep it right here at jmn we are literally on a flight on a flight a charter flight to Israel with neish Benish could you imagine I thought we had done it all over all these years but we had never broadcast tested from a plane that has changed today as you listen to this Tuesday edition of JM in the AM uh meanwhile we continue uh with this selection as we um as we present more and more from our uh flight here with neish Benish here is the one and only schoa for keep up way keep give all give up give up give up give up keep more keep give give come more away give give la la la be more give GL give GL give GL give all give JM and the am our next guests are from an area that often is called uh wal to Wal Jam in the AM country yeah Bergen County New Jersey wal tool nakam SEO country as we say uh David and Penny Rabinowitz are here they have said goodbye to Englewood New Jersey so long Bergen County uh Bergen County does not have the same number of Jews they had yesterday uh David that was you like that huh David it's unbelievable how sharp I am in hour number one David welcome to JM in the am thank you you've heard of this show before right indeed Penny welcome to JM in the AM hello how was it saying goodbye to Anglewood difficult it was difficult we we'll get over it when did this whole process start at what point did the rabbino say to each other you know what it's time to get to Israel 35 years ago slow process huh when did it accelerate at what point uh about a year ago oh very nice and the LA in The Last 5 Years three of our four children have made Aliah wow and have we been with them on planes I wonder with any of their kids we probably have been on with them on some of these flights right one was one was on NE okay and the other took uh group flights group flight flights and one's three out of four are there that's it we'll leave one behind it's time to move uh you know it's funny I it's it's such an and it's a tough way for him to find that out I think on the radio but he doesn't listen to Jame in the end don't worry well probably know somebody who knowes he won't he won't listen to anything that I listen to that's where we lose out they won't follow their parents' example um I you know one of the one of the funny parts of doing the shows that we do in New York with NE f neish is that we really can't announce certain people are there because others in their lives like their family or their co-workers have no or their boss have no idea they're thinking about Aliah in your case I guess it's well known already yeah except for the US Marshals but they don't know about it thank God what's the plan what's going to be happen there reines will be in Israel what city will you be in we have an amazing setup we already have businesses set up um I've been doing events in Israel for years nice and uh I'm just continuing I'm growing it it's based where it's based in both both Anglewood New Jersey and yine and yine very nice that's good y that works out nicely and and do you have something to occupy your time with uh yes I I recently started a financial planning and wealth management business uh my clients are all Americans most of whom are back in the States and some of whom are uh in Israel so it's a it's a new Venture but it's something I've been doing in one form or another for the last 30 years all right you're both professionals analyze for me the neish Benish process it's uh any kinks any any no I guess the word is right it's in the armor anything anything that that should have been done better obviously we know the answer to that already but uh how would you evaluate the neish experience every everything was really uh fantastic and I felt that even before they upgraded us to business class so it really was the Clincher exactly um if I get an extra pair of slippers i' out of the that they got it's really uh every they're so professional and such a great energy and so attentive and it's makes you it's such a warm embrace from the really from the from the first interaction is your new home going to be in Jerusalem yes very nice well you can't beat that moving straight to your Shan from Englewood welcome anytime I appreciate that and I'm sure your neighbors in also appreciate that would be pretty cool wouldn't it uh the rances it's David and Penny they're here making on this unique and incredible neish Bish flight with 216 colleagues and we wish you the best of luck sounds like everything's great so far thank you so much uh more coming up this is JM and the am say it again what's the fourth kid doing oh you want to know what the fourth kid is doing I have I have to revisit the interview now okay uh we're speaking with David and Penny Rabino mam Mal wallik insist that since only 75% of your kids have been discussed this conversation that we find out what the fourth one is doing he's he's a senior in college all right he's fine we don't can she sleep at night knowing that he's well taken care of very very happy that we left what took you so long'll be I love it I'll tell you the other three kids are working and one is going back to school what cities are they in two in Jerusalem and one in Tel Aviv very nice there you have all planning to meet you at the the celebration if they know what's good for them they better be at the celebration well well before you leave anything else you know what thank you very much seats in coach it's much appreciated thank you to the rid is a ma to you wishing mazov to everybody on this flight after all it's a big Sim as we talk about and experience what these oim are talking about and experiencing Soul Farm is next at JM and the am then we'll be joined by two Jewish Heroes we'll explain who they are coming up m n 7:00 in the morning on a Tuesday a unique Tuesday and this is America's one and only Jewish moments in the morning radio program heard on listeners sponsored WFMU East W mfu Mount Hope Rockland County at 91.9 on the FM dial broadcasting live from the Sonia and Robert gold studios in Jersey City New Jersey around the world in the web JM m.org and of course on the NSN app I said we have two Jewish Heroes coming up it is the first time with all the conversations and all the interviews at Mega events in benon airport on the telephone AR shabish with all the times we' spoken to them over the last 15 years it is the first time that we are having a conversation on the aircraft itself the actual aircraft that's flying 218 o Lim staff press volunteers Etc to Israel as they make Aliah we welcome the co-founders of nefes Benish Tony gelbart and Rua Fest gentlemen welcome to the show thank you so much look at you look how awake you are and how invigorated you are you must you must have napped for hours already at the oh yes it's been wonderful isn't it so quiet here it's amazing no babies crying and we've added to the excitement let me tell you we don't need babies crying we're making plenty of noise I asked this to uh people earlier it's a question that we don't always get to because we're never on this flight uh doing a radio show uh is there a moment is there a uh a time during this flight itself where something begins to hit you where you're saying to yourself we are involved in such a special project and no matter how often you've done it it seems to hit you every single time at that same moment is there something that you can site on these flights that's like that Tony yes which is it I'll tell you what when I take my corner seat by the window yeah and I see my partner Rabbi fast sitting next to me I look over to him he looks over to me and we go we did it again and the thing is that I get a dossier which I just finished looking at of all the people on this flight and I see and I read about the amazing doctors and lawyers and engineers and kids and teachers all following their dream and making Aliah and the crazy part of this thing is and I just finished it I take my walk up and down the entire plane while people are sleeping while people are eating while people are watching movies or doing whatever they're doing and I think for them what is going on in their mind and I think for myself what's going on in my mind and it looks at something special because you'll find very very different backgrounds but essentially they're all Jews with one dream returning home you know Miriam point to that and I've said it in the past as well it seems with both of you you have this you know renewed incredible enthusiasm for each and every one of these flights I'm not minimizing the flights and how exciting they are they're wonderful and we're glad to be part of them but it must be you know after what it's today 43 44 what are we up to in terms of charter flights 5 54 54 I thought 44 it's 54 after 54 charter flights and sending off a group you know 54 times one might think you know it might become a little stale it seems that both of you are a easy to excite I think the two of us we have very low bars of excitement it's all about your personalities that's what it is no when when you see when you see the excitement in the eyes of the oim it's their first time the only time of making Alia some of these families have been in touch with us for years have been coming out to seminars events phone calls back and forth Mega events and they they're talking their three-year plan and their 5-year plan and you've been in touch with them and you see their kids grow up and all of a sudden you see them at JFK you know lugging their luggage and it's finally their day and you see the tears in their eyes getting brot from their parents and the hugs farewell how could you not be moved and then you have guests that come on the plane from our partners and they're witnessing and experiencing for the first time and you're explaining to them the process and explaining to them the next steps and they get moved and then you are moved emotionally it's uh the dream becomes a reality it's hard not to be touched by it um yes Tony for for us even though it's not but it could become routine and that's a great routine yeah everyone who's making Ali is making Ali ey for the first time right so that's the excitement right you're also going into your 15th year together right you're heading into your 15th year at this point well we started 2002 right so you know soon enough we'll have a 15th anniversary for neish Bish it does take some type of vision and some might say discipline to keep your eye on the ball and to really appreciate each and every one of these flights each and every time I heard that the 15th anniversary it's a silver Falafel year or something like that golden piz only Falafel that's what I was told uh July and August flights this has a different makeup than what the type of flight you'll see next month am I right absolutely and give me one or two examples of that difference is that all the well the lone soldiers is the is one example flight is a lot of a lot of Lone soldiers have to plan is filled with with a younger younger population right um incredible inspirational um cabin of close to 8090 young adults who are going straight to the Army so that takes on a different flavor on this flight we have a lot of families and a a nice representation of people who are moving straight to the North and South which is really incredible it really is amazing one of the great one of the Great Moments I would say is uh on those flights that do have a large collection of soldiers or those who are heading straight to the Army uh you bring them outside the plane you know as they uh as they Dean they're taken to one area they get together and take one beautiful photograph a commitment a commitment of 100 or whatever the exact number might be that time around a commitment of like no other commitment to the land of Israel the O Li of course are making a commitment it's admirable but you're talking about a group of people that's willing to give their lives as we know and it's happened unfortunately you know many times uh for the land of Israel it's just an incredible site that for me is one of the most iconic moments there you have it it's breathtaking yeah for me it's breathtaking and the support that they get from their from their families in this move is equally inspirational yeah I've pointed out to you you how remarkable a job is being done in so many areas of North America by Jewish families of all backgrounds when it comes to Zionism yeah it is incredible to see people especially you know people listening right now might think that soldiers come from one area of Jewish American life you have seen them come from everywhere yep really incredible uh well uh more and more is going to be happening there are um uh there is another flight in August or group flights all the time uh another Charter flight in August I should say and now both of you have a North American primarily we know thank God there are people listening around the world but primarily a North American audience to speak to you're on the plane you're here escorting a large group of people to Israel and we are literally speaking from the aircraft give me your message Tony and then R by fast give me your message to the people of North America as you sit and are flying toward T Aviv the message is very simple if you have a dream to move to Israel and you need a little bit of help there's an organization called neish Manish who has a lot of partners are ready to help you it's the first phone call the first email the the first you know facts or whatever uh first checking out the website um from that we'll give you a spark and the spark we'll give you the flame and and we'll go from there we'll we'll take care of you it's a good message good time for me to remind everybody there is a website NBN org.il and a toll-free numbered 8664 Aliyah and they can start their process right now we know many listeners have done that after hearing these P or these pieces of advice or by fast what would you say well I was called for this interview as I was thinking about what I wanted to say at benuron and part of our DNA our national genetics is to yearn for a Homeland and since 1948 we have the rare miraculous opportunity to actualize that dream and unfortunately um hundreds of thousands have had a difficulty of transitioning from yearning to actualizing and don't underestimate the power of a national inertia we've seen it many times so I beg whoever is listening for their own sake to start breaking that inertia and to start taking baby steps to examine how they can change the destiny of their of the people and also of their family's future and start making baby steps and seeing how they can make a difference and entertain this option this incredible option of moving to Israel and you've seen this happen almost 50,000 times already 50,000 yeah look if anyone out there thinks their situation is unique and special I can assure you them all of them that with neish Manish what 50,000 people already have come through our hands there have been a lot of unique situations and a lot of special circumstances so take the plunge make the call look at the website and don't be afraid phenomenal thank you both Jewish Heroes whether you like it or not Tony gilbart or by yosua F do people realize this visual do you want to explain this visual May list we went through the details earlier for the listeners the poor guy next to me is trying to sleep for the last 3 hours we feel so bad about that he's the happy guy but we got to conduct show one of the interviewees is in pajamas the other one's sitting on the floor I'll let I'll let the audience decide which one's which and we have Visual Evidence of all this I'm sure there have been photos taken already of this scene well what can I tell you this is what we call a makeshift Studio boy you guys really provided a great makeshift Studio I can tell you that well you know of all the interviews we've ever done we've never asked you a question oh yeah my turn to ask you a question how do you feel being the voice of the Jewish people and Drive Time radio in the New York area especially being able to be on this plane and involved in all the things that you do how do you feel how's that responsibility because you're awesome and you have to understand it's a major responsibility well I appreciate a followup question by may as well I I I do I think I hope I in fact appreciate the awesomeness of this responsibility um how do I feel as I sit here in this chair I feel that the the fact that I'm in the position you just mentioned has given me an opportunity to do some amazing incredible and special things over all these years this being one of them of course and you know earlier it's funny earlier we were talking about uh people who at times will come over to me or my one of my staff members and talk about transitions that have happened in their lives because of what they've heard on the air uh because of things that we've said or even people who made Aliah frankly because and attributed to us attributed to the conversations we've had on the air whether began the process or whether their entire thinking of moving to Israel was because of all the all the things we've said about Israel over the years it's a an unbelievably satisfying feeling it's really hard for me to believe that you know that we could have this kind of influence but you know the proof is in the pudding as they say so it's just it's very satisfying and a big big privilege I don't take lightly wow thank you great here's my question I'll be I'll be soft this be a softball love yeah thank god let's see what he calls softball without a question uh undoubtedly you've inspired tens of thousands of individuals to palpably connect to Israel to viscerally connect to is Israel over so many years we pick up the the products the byproducts of the inspiration that you've really made on so many different individuals now how do you what is your Source continued source of inspiration to be an Unapologetic unabashed fervent Zionist who who understands the miracle and the miraculous times we live in and pass on that inspiration because if you can share your source of inspiration to others and I think that will also impact this generation um I I I hope this comes out in a positive manner this answer I was once walking in kevone and made a point of and I you know I'm relatively large and have AE and you know establish some type of a presence as I walk down streets and sidewalks sometimes or at least have the capability of doing that and I made sure as I was walking in Kon with my family that I walked a certain way and made sure that everybody there saw that there was a certain posture a certain attitude that was being uh projected on the streets of kevone at that time and someone commented wow you're so courageous you're so brave and I said no I'm the biggest coward there is but for some reason when someone says to me you can't live here or you can't be here or we don't want you here for some reason it just gives me some shot of Call it Courage bravery anything else you want and it just Spurs me on now that might be coming from a more negative place so to speak but with the whole world and believe you me as I get older and as time continues to go by it seems it's happening more and more with the internet and social media it seems to be happening more and more and in more and more countries it seems to be happening with so many people telling Jews what their true feelings are about Israel and frankly what their true feelings therefore are about Jews it just gives me the enthusiasm the desire the incredible momentum to just keep fighting and to keep uh issuing to everybody out there a positive message about Israel and a positive message about our heritage and as you said Israel and our heritage are intertwined and I think that's the uh I think that's the motivation or at least part of it thank you thank you for being on our show nak yes we're now our next interview where's my producer tddy karer to get these guys out of here maybe moving over I'll get a seat can you imagine that's my ticket to getting off the floor I never thought that I'd have to move to give her my fastest You' think you haven't seen on a play like this huh no problem you you would think thank you both all right thank you both thank you very much for being here Jewish Heroes both simple as that uh we are at you know where we are we're 30 some thousand feet in the air how many feet in the air are we or me I'm sorry I got to speak I got to we have to check the screen I got to speak like somebody who's actually making alah how many meters are we in the air I need to know right but we're making fake alas so it's still still we got to you know we got to fake it then make sure we uh utilize the right terminology I want to be honest that that might have been one of my favorite moments ever but certainly on this program today he I'll tell you that was good and I didn't even know that was coming yeah hey I didn't know any of that was coming that was a lot of fun I really I thought they were serious when they said you know thanks for being on our show yeah to me I thought they were being serious maybe on the next flight Rabbi F can get a seat they were maybe he'll know somebody on that flight that he can get a seat if you're not understanding what we're talking about just just check the social media here for the knal network ex and you'll see exactly how that interview was conducted exactly more coming up it's JM in the am on a Tuesday the second half of our program starting at 7:30 is going to be from Ben gon airport a long road of tears and broken hearts the flame that wouldn't die The Hope in our children's ey M the taste of the land of milk and honey lingers in the words on our lips Shai Israel our God is alive and well it's a dream come true in our lifetime a supernatural Miracle of birth confidently flying high upon the wings of eagles to Jerusalem Jerusalem to Jerusalem my home turning the desert into fields of Green Forest stretching proudly to the sky from a lot to the Hermon to the city of Golden Stone a future of endless opportunity fulfilling the promise of the land where one wers never cease her ways are ways of Peace it's a dream come true in our lifetime a supernatural Miracle of birth confidently flying high upon the wings of eagles to Jerusalem Jem Jerusalem to Jerusalem Jerusalem to Jerusalem my home it's a dream come true in our lifetime a supernatural Mir called H flying high upon the wings of eagles to jus Jerusalem Jalem to Jerusalem it's a dream come true in our lifetime a supernatural Miracle of birth confidently flying high upon the wings of eagles to Jerusalem to Jerusalem Jalem to jus SL my home jam and the am Sam Glazer it's called to Jerusalem all right Miriam Al wallik has a is it Dove is it dovec dovec is here and we've just played a great round of Jewish geography I don't think we lost that round at all it would have been more fun had we done it during visiting day in Camara but that's okay cuz getting you on campus is a different story really yeah thank you uh s do remembers the old days in C marasha he is also the uh grandson of the legendary Israel Miller who was the chairman of the conference of presidents of major American Jews organizations in the 1970s I would bet that sounds right the 1970s you just freaked him out a little bit that you just did that whole thing by yourself and uh his uncle is Michael Miller who of course we know from jcrc of New York and helps us with the parade and everything and uh it turns out that somehow the two of you are related exactly honorary relative exactly anyway so uh dois here where do you live until today until today I've been living in Newton Massachusetts I grew up in Brookline the last 11 years in Newton so you know you know who the rabbi is in Newton uh if you're talking about R rev Benji as I affectionately call him rev Benji Samuels so one second is my cousin not in Newton is Rabbi seagull G seagull is the rabbi of the Sho right across the street I doen there for many years and I didn't leave because anything uh happened I I left to run towards R Benji support both both sh Rabbi seagull is my first cousin oh wow yeah there you go the get closer related I was going to say that I win this rounde but I guess not no not so much anyway so you're Newton Massachusetts in what line of work uh building contractor all right and it's at some point you say to yourself you know what let's just drop everything and go to Israel how work blow it all up and uh start over in the Homeland is that really what happened what really happened was uh unfortunately I lost my father a little more than a year ago and uh after he died you know there was a lot of uh time to think about things in a different way and at first I started thinking about how for all of us life is short uh even if you get to live a long life my father died very unexpectedly at a relatively young age and uh so that caused me to start thinking about if life is so short what are our priorities in life you know I should know that off the top of my head but I had really never stopped to think about it and I shuffled that deck a lot of different ways over a month or two and no matter how I looked at it family was uh very clearly the most important thing to us and uh my siblings and I have had now chosen to make Aliah in Reverse reverse B birth order with my youngest sibling my sister making alad about 6 years ago and my brother two years ago and except for my mother who's still in Newton but plans to make Alan a few years the vast majority of our extended family lives in Israel wow and so it became very clear to us that we needed to get uh closer to family uh where you going to be living in eat oh wow six doors up from my brother what neighborhood of eat in Z oh you're in z Oh Boy the lower Pitto stretch that's great what street may I ask we're going to be on hatti poren oh wow course and nak will be there next week for shabas um this coming shabas we're going to be up in in kib celebrating my nephew's bar he just invited himself over as come I love that frud the Miller family is well known for a number of things including community service and I know that it has been a tradition to serve in the US Army as chaplain is that something that made it to your generation was your father also someone who served no my father didn't serve my father so my uncle Michael as I'm sure you know uh he served my cousin Yoni my uncle Michael's son my first cousin he served but in the Israeli Army oh that's and not as a Chaplain got it and your grandfather my grandfather was a chaplain in the uh in the US Army during World War II right aming wonderful family history Oh yeah talk about iconic families you're part of it my my grandfather Rabbi Miller's one of his closest friends Rabbi shakar who was also a chaplain in the US Army he was with the group that liberated bald where my father's father was one of the prisoners there's a famous picture with Rabbi shakar speaking to the I know that picture the survivors my my father's father my grand father my is in that same picture and so then years later my father and mother get introduced and you know the rest is history unbelievable and then history continues as you make Aliah on this flight have you that's incredible have you or has NE helped you line up work for uh your stay in Israel uh I did not pursue them for help with work I'm starting my own construction company I've teamed up with an Israeli kaban uh I was just going to say there must be a lot of red tape I would guess that has to be I interviewed a lot of Israeli kbl before I found the that was going to really uh really work it uh for me uh because I'm looking to do something um a little bit different than than what exists currently in the market you we're going to be marketing towards Native English speakers in the high-end sector and we're creating a full a full service company with related Services uh including Realtors and mortgage brokers and accountants and uh Architects interior designers so we can take uh a client who wants a turnkey experience and help them from start to finish dealing with somebody who speaks fluent English who understands the standards in high-end building and hopefully give them an opportunity to build for themselves instead of what they're doing now because they're afraid to work mostly with Israeli Builders uh where they're buying at a premium through developers will your company be based in eat or you sh or I'm based in in eat we're going to work anywhere that there that there's work so I'm expecting to work in in the you know areas where there are a lot of native English speakers my to my first project Inus but I I won't turn down a project elsewhere in the country if it comes uh comes to if you're starting to help build Israel may as well start with Jerusalem huh and your wife my wife is a te trained as a middle school English teacher but uh her primary role I told her her job her job if she chooses to take it and she was very happy with the idea is to focus on helping our children get acclimated helping all of us get acclimated and uh and then we'll see we'll see what she ends up doing from there what were the last days is like in Newton was there a big send off it was amazing uh the whole experience has been surreal there was a a very big sendoff uh really which started maybe five or six weeks ago we have another family on the same flight with us making Alia from our community and they traveled around the US before coming to New York for this flight so we wanted to celebrate with them and there are four other families from our scho also uh coming either three making alah and three other families moving back to Israel so we wanted to do something when all six families were around it happened to coincide with the chabas we were celebrating the preot Mitzvah celebration for our number two our daughter Abby and uh on at shalas they had a a huge um get together where we celebrated all of our upcoming uh amazing so Newton Massachusetts is a feeder for nees PES seem 100% unreal Dove good luck to you than much entire family unbelievable uh we got to thank T Kramer T he said he could help us put together a great show and boy he wasn't lying that's for sure this was so much fun this was great uh our makeshift Studio has served us well here on the flight and uh we thank everybody in neish benfish my thanks to Miriam Al wallik we are concluding our first half of our Tuesday show second half coming up in minute and of course that'll be from the tech the celebration the ceremony that takes place upon the arrival of all the oin at benon airport in Israel I thank you all for listening to JM in the am this time each and every Monday through Thursday Golder his words here is Rabbi Golder with morning we learn when became illin came to visit him said to my brother don't you know that from Heaven it's been decreed that the Roman Nation should be rulers over us they have destroyed the B mikos they've killed the sikim and they've caused his wise men to perish and yet this ruler continues to exist I have heard about you that you sit in Larn TOA it has been banned by the government and you gather public assemblies to teach Torah with a Torah resting on your lap rabi khanina replied to from shim they will have mercy on me meaning that he would be shielded with Divine protection Rosa was Disturbed I am telling you things that are factual and significant and you're telling me things of the supernatural that from Heaven they'll have mercy on you I wouldn't be surprised if they burn you and the saer Torah in a fire R said to R where do I stand in regard to the next World R replied did you ever find yourself placed in a challenging situation reaban said yes I had my personal Pur money once become mixed up with General stoker funds I gave all the money to the poor without trying to recover my own share said to if that is so let my portion in Torah be from your share and let my lot in MIM to be from your lot life is full of Nas challenges our job in this world is to meet every Challenge and to pass them a few years ago there was a very religious Jew that arrived in a certain city to assume the position of Rabbi one day he traveled into the City and he took the bus when he paid the fair he received change but when he took his seat he realized the bus driver had overpaid his change by a quarter when he considered going back up front a person that was sitting thereby said you're going to go back for a quarter what does he care about the quarter no one will know it's missing he also noted that the driver wasn't Jewish he remained in his seat until he arrived at his destination as he left the bus the Jew went over to the driver and he said you gave me too much change the driver said to him aren't you the new Rabbi in town the Jew replied in the affirmative the driver continued for a long time I've been grappling with religion whether to go to synagogue or not I developed my own test and decided to see what would happen if I would give you a little extra you can be sure that you will see me in your synagogue this sabbath as the man descended the steps the rabbi felt himself shaking he went over to lean on a lamp post for a few minutes until he could regain his steadiness he said to himself Ron shal Master of the world I almost sold a ye for a quarter of a dollar this has been Rabbi David goldwaser bringing you morning kizik have a nice day JM and the am and as promised the second half of our Tuesday broadcast is from here at benon airport the first half we conducted on the plane itself which was quite an experience to say the least a makeshift Studio like none other on a very exciting journey of of 218 oim uh to Tel Aviv uh a very spirited Landing as it always is an incredible celebration here at Ben gon airport and look who we've stumbled upon one of the great stars in the world of Jewish music Benny fredman is here Benny is enjoying this celebration I assume for the first time am I right yes indeed good morning to you good morning welcome welcome is Right welcome to all these incredible oim describe for everybody from your Vantage Point the scene when you saw this outpouring of love from people in Israel for people who are just moving to Israel it's unbelievable it's unbelievable I see people getting off the bus in tears tears of joy it's this is an unbelievable experience this is something beautiful to see it is something and something amazing and people come from all over to make sure to be here to greet the new oim and to experience this entire celebration now you are actually part of this celebration when they heard that you're in the country all of a sudden yeah you're tossed into the Limelight over here they made me wake up so early that was the problem yeah so I just figured I won't go to sleep that's it at someo exting at some point during this ceremony you'll be asked to entertain the crowd and greet them with a nice musical performance yes and you consider that to be an honor I would guess this is an honor it's this is I mean I I can't my my my insides are buzzing this is so exciting uh in the background lots of music a lot of greetings uh snacks for the people who are on the plane who are desperate for something to eat or drink at the moment and uh soon you'll have a formal ceremony where members of government and of course the leaders of neish benfish will go ahead and address the crowd and make this an official welcome from the podium it is really something special we've had the opportunity to do it before but it never ever gets old and you can understand that right how it never ever gets old I know when I come to visit for a week I'm I'm I'm crazy with excitement I can I can't even imagine what it would be like knowing that you're coming here at to State and what do you think of the crowd the 1500 people that come on out just to greet everybody and make sure to make a festive and celebratory atmosphere people have been here waiting for over an hour yeah that's true and the excitement is just growing and growing and growing we saw in the video screens the airplane as it landed oh yeah they have the people coming off the off the plane and then of course waiting for the buses to arrive it's just I I mean I just keep saying it again it's so beautiful yeah it is amazing we're in an airport Hangar we're actually in an airplane hanger here at benuron airport that's where the celebration is taking place this year and uh this this is one of two charter flights for this summer in August there'll be another one which will include a tremendous number of Lone soldiers who are going to be coming to Israel this trip included a many many families a lot of kids some soldiers as well but mostly dominated by families was a uh a very nice and interesting trip watching all these young families with their babies and young children move to Israel and you just got the feeling that they were doing they were doing it at the right time that they decided it's time to get to the holy land and make our lives here instead of somewhere else yeah so especially because of the Heatwave in New York New Jersey the weather's a good enough reason to make Alia huh I whatever reason whatever excuse you can use have you decided what you're singing for the new oim today I figured I would do a brand new song for them we wrote special for this morning for this event we call it yes tikv special song for the event is it similar to yes TVA we're familiar with it might be I don't know all right they they they in fact hoped that there'd be tikva that there would be hope for them to finally get here and it's appropriate because they are here now anything else on the playlist today we're going to do to oh very nice and we're going to uh drink and bless them with success and happiness and the rest of their life should be just as joyous and just as happy and just as exciting amaz Benny fredman everybody that's Benny fredman he's here in Tel Aviv to welcome the oim and to be part of this celebration thank you Benny thank you aam zamist thank you everybody who is uh who's here today to welcome the oin uh yes Miriam Al W like your impressions I think it's first of all the crowd is insane yeah this is a big it's insane but more than that it's so much fun seeing so many previous oim here to welcome other people and I just saw the marilus I don't know if you remember binnie and a mar who made Alia from North Wood they're here and they're here welcoming friends and just you know returning the favor so to speak for other people who came out for them I know Paul cirin we said is here somewhere pul cirin PC guy is here it is part of his tradition to welcome other oim and um we just saw Haley gersberg Haley gersberg who I asked her I'm like who are you here greeting she's like I'm here for the kavaya for the experience again it's just incredible and there's that humbling and humiliating moment when we when we get off the bus I got to tell you if you saw my expression this time around I just can't take it anymore I just this is the why do I feel like this one was harder I know in as stoic way is possible I just made my way straight to the hanger and that was it uh because there's some real Jewish Heroes here who are now have moved officially from North America to Israel with neish benfish and hopefully what they've done is going to inspire others to do the same thing to look into uh being and uh and moving their own family to the Holy Land we were on the bus with one family who came and I look with four little kids and I looked at him the dad and I said you're doing the the you're doing right by your kids he's like that's what they tell me but they are they're all heroes and we mentioned all the families that were on this flight and it's not easy it's not easy slepping the kids along and look look at those smiling faces of oh there's some very happy people here I just saw Marissa who we interviewed in the first uh segment of the show and I said to her I wish her mazl tub and she said thank you and she goes was I on the air yet I'm like no and she goes I don't know what day it is I said right exactly but there's uh there's a tremendous amount of Hope in the air there's excitement in the air and this is a hanger filled with Jewish Heroes that's for sure Jewish Heroes and wonderful spirit and just an incredible of people who are here to greet them um it never gets old and that that plane ride was was one of the more solid plane rides a lot of great spirit aboard uh a lot but you know what was interesting about this plane ride we met a lot of people who were first timers with the Press first timers as observers first- timers with um organizations that are part sponsors of this event and just seeing their excitement and how they view the entire thing and how they look at these oim was just wonderful and what was interesting was that when we were watching the first set of oim come off the plane you talk about first experiences standing with Rabbi Josh fast who has done this many many times he say 54 times I looked at him and I said never gets old he's like I know isn't it great so for some I mean for us we've done this how many times five or six times we figured but for him when I when I commented in the first segment of the show that his that Rabbi F's remarks at JFK are never the same this just belies that same message it's always fresh for him it's always amazing for him you know he and Tony look at each other we did it again kind of a thing it is an unbelievable blessing to be that inspired at work to want to work that hard and to know that each time a flight takes off you have succeeded again and they see the fruits of their labor because they see these incredible people from young to old and all across the Jewish Spectrum from so many different Geographic areas and from so many different lines of work all coming together to experience this okay uh where are we heading next we going to some music should we do some Benny Freedman we should definitely do some Benny Freedman I think they're Gathering they're quieting down a little bit in here and I use that term quieting very Loosely um they are quieting down in here to begin the ceremony and I'm not sure by the way how many people here know that Benny is going to be performing yeah well we just left the cat out of the bag but for this crowd you're right they probably don't even realize he's going to be hitting the stage soon and he's going to be part of the big celebration there's always a big musical component here obviously cuz music means celebration right we've seen um um we Sawan Reichel was last year was Ry kleinstein Romy kleinstein the year before trying to think who else was here during our celebrations during our fake celebrations of Alia have you seen nut on shansky yet has I have not seen him yet no well I thought he'd be at the plane to greet the oims they got off the plane but he has not arrived yet has he been there before is that's where we usually find him I think he's been there before but he'll be here in this setting celebrating with everybody coming up for sure where is shakar snapping away I am sure now that we've revealed to the world in hour number one all about shakar yes now now it's just one name that's all you have to say exctly it's like Madonna exactly everyone knows who it is all right let's go to this Benny selection from Benny Freedman who's going to be performing a little later on here at the ne Benish celebration then we'll have more guests for you coming up if you keep it here at JM in the am. we are live in Ben gon airport we are actually in an airport airplane hanger could you imagine that's where we are and we are uh doing a Tuesday Morning broadcast here of JM in the AM for o fore JM and the am Tuesday morning and we're in Israel second half of our program program is here at the hangar at benuron airport the big celebration taking place as theim kashim are gathering in the uh in the hangar to participate in the big ceremony Kim afrat is with us Kim is the manager of overseas programming here with nefes B neish shalom shalom welcome to the show Shalom I'm Boer to Boer to is Right quite a Boer to it is that's for sure yes it is it's an early Boer how many years are you with neish Benish I'm with neish Benish 11 years um this is probably my 10th or 15th Charter flight out of the 54 and each time it's like a whole new experience well what was today like what was today not you don't have to necessarily tell us what we're so different about today but just describe for everybody what this celebration is like from your Vantage Point for the new o this is really the culmination of months and years of planning and um feeling inspired to come and change their lives and build their parallel lives here in Israel and today really is almost like the wedding meaning all the preparations and all the research and everything that went into it and today is really a day of Celebration that they're here and they made it and um really it's a it's not just a personal Simka it's really a a joy for all of Jewish people and for all of Israel that Joy is really the perfect word for this because there's such a joyous atmosphere people are just happy to be here the plane is filled with people who are exhausted they're tired their families need a little bit of rest and nonetheless they're able to really step it up and celebrate here this morning that's for sure uh director of a manager rather of overseas programming that means that you're responsible for I'm responsible for the events that we hold in North America whether they're seminars or workshops or our signature me megaair that we have in March or onetoone meetings that we have we find that these events are effective and impactful for people who are making their plans to meet with us even in our virtual world where you can get all the information and all the resources are available online there's nothing like the face to face and talking to somebody from neish Benish one of our experienced advisers and having somebody work through building helping you build a plan and this is something that's now happening not just in the New York area but in many cities throughout North America right that is true um New York and La um we're there probably every six weeks or so in New York every month La Chicago Florida Toronto Montreal Washington Baltimore it's all over all over do you have an easy cell at this point is it uh I don't know is it uh is it easy to walk into communities hold an event and get a lot of recruits for aliia um we do find that there's a lot of demand for our programming um there are a lot of people who have been thinking about Aliah and you know there's a big step between thinking about Aliah and in theory wanting to make Aliah and actually getting on the plane and being here to celebrate on a day like today so to bridge that gap between the thinking and the action and the execution there really is a demand for have to have people you know move them along those step move along and move them along well it's pretty amazing um uh this is a good opportunity with you on board here with us to remind everyone that if they want to start their own alop process it's pretty simple there's a website and that's NBN org.il that's right there's a phone number 8664 alyah right to free we have um aliad advisers who answer during uh us business hours right so that's it makes it easier as well Sunday through Thursday and we have Skype meetings available also for those who do not live or cannot come out to where we are and um like I said we are in the New York area for sure you know several times a month and in other areas as well well ma Alto to you and to everybody NE B it's a great day to you thank you very much Kim F the manager of overseas programming those of you who've attended over any period of time any of the uh programs take place in the New York area or um or the New York area or anywhere around North America then you know that uh Kim is responsible for all of that as manager of overseas programming we're in in the hanger as the program the official program here in benon airport is set to begin and as is the custom many dignitaries no doubt a member of knesset or two Natan sharansky chair of the Jewish agency and many others will be uh addressing the crowd the director of community engagement and development and that is quite a title is our good friend Aaron libowitz who's here to greet us again here in benon airport it's so great to see you it's really uh you you are an integral part of these uh neish neish Charter ceremonies thank you I appreciate that watching you off the plane watching you smile watching you take great pride and in the oim um is fantastic so thank you for coming well I do smile when I think of the oim but I don't know if you noticed how much I wasn't smiling as I was keeping this very stoic front as I was making my way through all the oin because of course I'm not making ala I feel that the people around me are real Jewish Heroes those are the ones that are getting this nice round of applause right now you know n please know that it's very important to n neish that that you advocate for Aliah you support Aliah um and you are our hero in broadcasting the message of the opportunity that people have to make by making Aliah and uh we we don't take that for granted to have a friend uh in New York City broadcasting our message uh around the world well I appreciate that Community engagement and development what does community engagement mean so it's bringing uh neish for neish out to communities sharing with people that uh we are here to help them we're here to service them we are here to make their dreams a reality cuz we think everybody knows about NE neish everyone knows about all the services they can provide that's not the case so it's it's not the case we have a we're like Coca-Cola uh people know our our brand they know neish bfish um but we like to give people a one-on-one uh opportunity to learn how we can service them how we can help them um and really we're a we're a family run organization that is about individuals helping individuals so it's not just about getting our branding out there like a Coca-Cola but making sure that each person understands how we can help them achieve their dreams tell me a unique experience you've had have you had an encounter with a I don't know a single or a potential lone soldier or a family in a remote area or in a common area of North America have you had an interesting encounter these ceremonies first of all nakas you've been here many times never get old um and I made aliat 2 years ago and I've been to a couple of these ceremonies and uh walking through the gauntlet here with the new o as as their family members are you know shouting and singing um it it brings tears to my eyes to see shimmy kleene from Woodmere uh with his family here greeting their children just made Aliah and and the tears that were in his eyes and how proud he was uh brought tears to my eyes so uh uh it's an every day is inspirational but these moments are are incredible and even though I I live here in Israel it's uh it's a booster shot of Zionism uh for me there a lot of people tuned in who consider moving to Israel and wonder about the obstacles and about the different uh hurdles that they have to overcome in order to do it you've had this experience now what word of encouragement can you give those people so if I can do it you can do it um that's that's defit that's a word of encouragement that's definitely true but uh we're here to help we neish neish is here to remove those obstacles um you it is a challenge moving moving anywhere is a challenge um and immigrating to Israel is a challenge but there's such great opportunities and uh the services that neish Benish has in place to help people achieve those to achieve uh their dreams and to remove obstacles um is fantastic I could not have made Aliah without neish Manish my sister and brother-in-law made Aliyah 13 years ago with nees Benes we came two years ago had it not been for the the air the atmosphere that they've created in North America and the services that he had my wife and I and our three children would not be in Israel and I'm grateful to rabby fast to Tony not just because I work for them but because they helped us achieve the dream of living in Israel and uh look what they've done for with 50,000 people at this point pretty amazing and all from a garage in Baton that's where it all started that around the plastic table what you could the vision the dream um and really it's it's it's uh the startup Nation happened uh with nefes Benes Aaron lewood director of community engagement development nefes Benes I thank you very much for joining us nak it's so great to seeing you thank you so much for having us and uh keep up the holy work thank you you as well Benny Freeman is on stage Benny Freeman is on stage here with neish benfish and here is his musical presentation at Jam I need everybody clapping come on hey fore foree for oh my everybody spee everybody everybody sing got for everybody let's hear you singing it come on one more time real everybody all right in the with Betty Freeman unbelievable a performance here in honor of the brand new oim hkv and uh we have here one of the Jewish Heroes oh yes you do have a seat you kidding me we witnessed you on that flight talk about Jewish hero anybody who could shap a family along the way you have this is Miriam Casper am I right and her daughter Talia Miriam Casper and Talia talia's how old how old are you three 3 years old and now you're going to be living in Israel what do you think are you happy is it awesome yeah talo has been having a countdown every morning she woke up and said it's 6 days till Israel and then the morning we woke up to move she screamed today we're moving to Israel unbelievable so she's excited and the whole family is excited so excited where were you until now before Israel what city we were living in whir very nice and now you're going to be living where now we're living in modan very nice how hard was this process you have how many uh how many kids you have we have four kids we have Isaac is nine Goldie is six Talia is three and Ari is two days shy shy of one and did it take any convincing for them to gree to all this if you ask Isaac it was his idea and it took us too long to agree to his idea wow and what was the flight like with the kids the flight was great our kids have done this many times before and they were very calm and relaxed right they slept a little bit we slept not a lot of it and we were excited to land that's one of the reasons I call you a Jewish hero there's Aliah and then there's taking the flight with the kids I said Thank God there's no return flight that's right now they'll be able to rest for a bit now they can rest my parents came to set us up and they're going to take the kids while we process all the paperwork so that's a huge help as well what was it like seeing them at the at the point when stay with you you want to stay with me we'll see what was it like getting off the bus and seeing them here the bus from the plane and seeing your family here it was overwhelming just so many emotions it's hard to describe what it feels like I don't think I fully processed what happened um but I'm sure by shabis I'll understand and a lot of time we spend on the air trying to convince people that this is a process that they can adjust to and that they can uh that they can go ahead and Undertake and eventually overcome um what would you say in terms of words of advice for people who are contemplating moving to Israel from the north American area speak to your kids about it get them excited about it and if they're excited about it it will be much easier for you convincing your kids is the hardest part and the neish Benish help that they gave you along the way instrumental every step of the way they were there to answer questions um about process and about the kids um practical advice um anything we needed they were there Miriam Casper maal to you and the entire family un unable we're honored to be here at this incredible auspicious day for your family JM and the am are my fastest speaking to the crowd and uh that means this co-founder of neish Benish is giving a special message to everybody here about um the fact they've taken this move they've made this step and they are now officially oim residents and citizens of the state of Israel more coming up it's JM and the am and here's Sam Glazer open my lips to sing your praise my heart to feel the joy let me have the gift for which I'm yearning another night in Israel desert flowers blooming in the spring The Grapes of upon the vine let me walk the beaches in the Moonlight let me fall in love in Israel wh you go I will go having to follow my heart riding the wings that will carry me home wherever you live you live I will live I will if just you breathe in the air you find me in Israel in Israel lift up my eyes to see the day of plow shares from our swords a time to SP a time to gather Stones a Time For Peace in Israel let me hear the voice of bride and groom of laughter in the SE answer the prayers of our children so they need not fear in Israel wherever you go you go I will go having to follow my heart riding the wings that will carry me home wherever you live you live I will live I love to see the people I want to share the dream to reach across the distance it's closer than it seems wherever you go I will go I go having to follow my heart riding the wings that will carry me home wherever you live you I will live I will live it's just to breathe you'll find me in Israel you'll find me in Israel oh oh JM in the AM that is Sam Glazer in Israel here at JM in the AM Natan sharansky is addressing the crowd his Aliyah was a lot different than the Aliyah experiened by the neish benfish group today that's for sure if you're not familiar with what I mean if you're too young to remember how Natan sharansky got to Israel and what that day was like in 1986 and certainly it is well worth researching and we encourage everybody to uh use the opportunity to tell their children and grandchildren about that incredible day back then uh we'll try to speak with him coming up here at JM the it's America's one and only Jewish moments in the morning radio program heard on listeners sponsored WFMU East Orange wfu Mount Hope Rockland County at 91.9 on the FM do broadcast live from the Sonia and Robert gold Studios Jersey City New Jersey around the world in the web j.org and of course on the NSN app neish benfish has an information phone number which allows you the opportunity to start your own Aliah process at 8664 aliia 866 number four and then a i y a there is a website NBN org.il that's nn.org doil and that gives you the opportunity to uh head to web and to start your process by applying for Aliah and for and by getting all the information that you would ever need in terms of moving you and your family to Israel whether it's education whether it's job opportunities whether it's any type of uh any type of information regarding housing Etc it's all available there on the web more coming up at JM and the am uh as we continue from the neish Benish celebration here in the airline hanger in the airport hanger in Tel Aviv and um we'll continue with more special guests here at JM in the AM JM in the am and here we are at the big Tech celebration Natan shensky is with us it's a pleasure to see you again at this amazing celebration what are your thoughts when you see all these oim here today good morning look I'm never tired to be excited from seeing Alim coming uh to iseland if you think how many generations are behind each of these persons praying dreaming fighting hoping and here it comes and this moment of closing the biggest thle of 2000 uh years it's extremely excit exciting and especially these days and so many terrible things are happening all the world and so many of our enemies are trying to undermine to delegitimize to to weaken Israel and we are becoming stronger with each one of these new immigrants a lot of times the media around the world paints a bleak picture of what's happening in Israel what would you say to people back in North America about what's really happening here well we uh we look to the north we look to the South we look to Europe we look to America and we think oh my God what a full interesting happy free Jewish life we have here in Israel and how glad I am that each of these 200 new coming American Jews will enjoy this life together with us do you ever consider how different your Aliyah was than their Aliyah uh I don't think it was very different uh because uh well it was difficult different uh physically I couldn't choose I was simply taken straight from pris and brought uh by the airplan but in terms of Thousand Years dream becoming true it was the same excitement and uh uh the same achievement and it's amazing to see how many people still have that dream huh yeah and also think for a moment many of the parents of these people we are fighting for my release right we are demonstrating we are uh writing letters which I never received but kjb received them yes and so that's the power of people their parents were fighting for bringing 1 million Jews from Soviet Union now we're fighting to make our home better to bring them we took great pride in hitting the streets on your behalf shalom shalom wonderful to speak with you Natan shedy who is of course one of the greatest Jewish Heroes ever and always has a special message for the oim and always has a special message for us here at JM in the AM we are at the ceremony as the conclusion of the ceremony the official ceremony has taken place here in the hangar at benion airport 218 oim have uh settled in to their new role as residents of the state of Israel and they'll soon be going to their homes to their new homes in different cities around Israel north south east and west uh in order to start their brand new life here those of you out there who have expressed an interest who have ever thought about Aliyah one of the things we do when we arrive here with neish benfish is we encourage others to get a plan of Aliyah onto your schedule onto your uh uh agenda and it's easy to do these days there's a toll-free number at 8664 866 the number four and then a i y a and there's of course a website NBN org.il NBN org.il and we got an opportunity to speak with some of the heroes of uh of this incredible and amazing organization I want to thank our friends at Travel cell travel cell makes sure that we are connected back to the United States of America to our family friends and staff travel cell has always made sure we are connected there at 718 38265 718 382 6500 and you can go to travel cell.com travel cell.com for information if you need any type of phone service any type of rental for Israel or anywhere around the world you want to go to travel cell and we thank them for keeping us connected with family friends and staff tomorrow will be broadcasting from ravim uh and the amazing ravim organization later in the week with our friends at ncsy we be Wednesday night ncsy Co baate Mayer for a Thursday jamm in the amm will be Thursday night at y ncsy there big massive Summer Event uh bringing together all the summer youth programs with ncsy together on Thursday night that'll be for Fridays JM and the am and we're on Sunday at marar Kim in the gush which you'll hear on the first day of the 3 weeks format this coming Monday at JM in the AM there's plenty happening this week as we continue to highlight what is happening here in Israel and enjoying this incredible Aliyah celebration we have met people on this flight uh with all different types of circumstances from families to singles to those who are heading straight to the Army lone soldiers people who come from different walks of life different walks of uh employment who are going to all different parts of Israel who are getting set to enjoy this incredible experience and it is really uh remarkable uh watching everyone come together from different areas of the United States and Canada and be part of this Aliyah effort we'll go to this selection and more coming up you are listening to JM in the AM and uh we will continue with more from nefes Benes live in Israel sh speak to the heart Jerusalem and Proclaim unto her done is the term of punishment God is the guilt that was no B your JM and the am well our wonderful friend Miriam Blum is here and she's made it to Israel mazal to you thank you very much a special shout out to who who are we saying hi to this morning so um growing up on the upper west side in Manhattan um and being a a Big Friend of of your daughter Kava and uh just knowing your family my mother has listened to jam in the AM for about 20 years or so and uh it's really full circle that I'm making Aliah and amazing we found out you were on the flight and and and she wanted to hear my voice so Ma I love you yakob I love you too I'm here's here I landed and uh I just want to say in general uh the fact that um nak the nak seal network is here and that they're making the keser with na manfish in general is an incentive for all of us who listen to nak every morning thank to to come and to and to and to follow him as he um carries all the charter flight members and makes it really so thank you very much thank you thank you for all the good music to you there's Mar of BL amazing all right we have another very special guest I'm going to ask her to come over here if you don't mind please we'll get him yeah I mean I I wish you would join us we're going to bully your husband for coming out this is this is the lady who has the distinction of being the mother of one of the great Jewish Heroes of our time Mrs esti F the mother of Rabbi Yoshua f is here with us in the hangar in the benuron airport the very first time we've ever spoken to a parent of rabbi fast Mrs fast welcome to JM and the am thank you what is it like thank you so much what is it like being the mother of a Jewish hero like Josh it's a tremendous cavod and it's a humbling cavod it must be amazing when did you know and he's always told us and I wish he was here I'd love to see the expression on his face when I tell the story but he's always told us that you what was it you spent one year in Israel am I right was it one year when he was Su it was one summer in Israel it was a year this is what he's always told us he told us it was one year that you spent in Israel and it was not exactly the most Pleasant of experiences for him is that accurate it was a difficult year for Josh it was a difficult year I know there was one movie playing on a loop that they were watching the entire time in the house and and it was it was one of those challenging times but yet he has told us on more than one occasion he has told us because of that experience that's what propelled him years later to dedicate himself to the Holy Land so anybody considering any length of time with their family in Israel it's a good idea huh it's a very good idea all the children uh came crying how could you take us from our friends and they cried even stronger when we went back after a year and each of them uh dedicated themselves to finding a shid that would also want to make Aliah and all of our children blessedly are here that was our my fastest father join us yeah uh no actually my f father's but here's here's the question when you first heard of the idea you first heard of the concept this young man comes to you and says Ma I have an idea listen to this we are going to really cut through the red tape make the Aliyah process for Jews from North America as easy as possible now you were somewhat familiar with the state of Israel at that point wouldn't it be natural for someone like yourself to discourage him from embarking on something like that knowing how bureaucratic te Ally things work in this country no the only natural thing for us as a family was always to make our home here and thank God Josh was able to facilitate it for so many other people as um children of survivors we always felt so fortunate to be born in a time when we have ER Israel and it was our family's dream to always be here and bar hasem we're all here what is this like for you today when you're here and you see the 200 plus oim walk into this big celebration amidst all the music and The Fan Fair what are your feelings I can't I don't know what my feelings are but my eyes are always crying I I feel overwhelmed absolutely overwhelmed and I would guess you've seen this scene before yes we're here just about every time right pretty amazing well what can I tell you uh it has to start somewhere and now we have found out we are by fastest incredible dedication to the holy has begun well he's the one who's carried it forth and bezat hasem will continue for many years to come you're here as well yeah Mrs fast was threatening to ask me if I'm going back to America but she she laid off of that question Mrs fast doesn't know that we're constantly giving roundtrip tickets exactly yeah oh boy oh boy well thank you very very much pleasure uh I never expected that don't you wonder what the other fast kids are up to yeah that's a good question it's an off thee air question we're not going to talk about that oh boy oh I didn't wish Mrs FASA mlov her grandson's wedding just took place masal to you I heard it was quite a celebration to say the least oh boy there are also two of The Fast children are here as well meaning Rabbi Josh vas's children correct they names they are Hana and yafa where are KH and yafa let's get them on the air there we go yes we begged them to come on the air we have begged them to come on the air oh do I have somebody who's semi interested come who is this this is this is is this is KH hey KH how are you Hi how old are you 11 do you understand what kind of Jewish hero your father is what do you do you understand what kind of Jewish hero your father is yeah he's pretty amazing man huh uh-huh so what happens what happens he's always traveling and always bringing people here and always helping Israel get larger and larger with wonderful families is that how it works yeah pretty good job he's doing huh mhm yeah yeah and you hear a lot of nice things about him all the time I'm sure uh yeah there you have it oh we have confirmation from somebody who's on the in on the inside how many flight have she taken oh have you taken any flights with Nish Manish um yeah all family um each four years we go to summer in America very nice yeah so yeah I guess we what are those flights like for you do you like the uh when do you like single amilies make Aliah decide to move to Israel the children they're bringing along it's fun right it's exciting it is exciting and what about this when you come off the bus from the plane and you see this kind of Celebration it's pretty cool like everyone was like Yay with flags it was really cute yes the quote of the day everybody was like Yay with flags well put I like that well it's a big celebration I thank you very much for joining us thank you best in the entire fast family thanks for having me goodbye she like a professional guest she is a professional guest wow it it doesn't skip Generations that's for sure this is the best show ever yeah uh We've certainly had a chance to do some things we haven't done before that is for sure we have to make sure to close of course with Tony and um we'll see if we can get R fast back on for a minute or two the uh The Hanger is clearing out we should just make mention that the that once the tchas was over now the olum are being shuttled over to terminal one which is why number one it's considerably quieter in here is it as close as they said it was I don't I don't know I haven't wandered outside walkable huh well we were told that from a security point of view they don't want you walking on the tarmac kind of a thing that's a good point right so you have to be shuttled over there um but this was I had mentioned to Y catsman also an esteemed member of the neish Manish team and certainly a friend of ours somebody I referred to as my sister from from another mother um this this teass in this hanger was superb yeah it was done well the enormity of the ceremony itself and the enormity of the space really they both they both filled each other out so to speak yeah no question about it then you knew well ne ne always does it right so you knew that it would be a good celebration and one that was taken care of the way it should be and just like the whole process the whole Alia they seem to always get it right they seem to always do you know do it well and do the right thing etc etc at one point when we were on the flight and we heard that beeping and we couldn't figure out what that beeping was and we're both and everyone's trying to sleep and we're like what's that noise and then we said oh they're processing passports right believe it or not it happens on the plane I I still can't get over the answer that Natan sharansky gave me when I thought I was being clever and asked him how different his Aliah was from this alah and he said it was very very it was not that different at all wow and I'm like and I'm wondering where he's going with that and he says that you know just like for thousand of years Jews have been hoping and praying they'd make it back to the Holy Land and people have this dream and they you know want very badly to be here and they love when they finally get here it's exactly the same thing that happened to him he says yeah it's true they took me directly from prison to Israel yeah that's true but still it was very similar experience I thought that was a good perspective because frankly I thought he would talk about just how different that experience was but yeah I guess the pining of Jews for the holy land is one very similar experience well we've also had very different experiences in terms of the ceremonies that we've attended here obviously we discussed the one during sokan two summers ago during the war this month in July right it's literally 2 months ago where it was under cover so to speak when every were when the flight arrived and the entire ceremony was 50 people deep no music no music no Fanfare no Fanfare but who was there Rabbi La Rabbi la which was incredible with little oim on his lap giving them brot and wishing them the best and just that was such an intimate experience it was incredible and he wasn't the only one there were a number of of notables who were there that day came for that reason correct I'm pretty sure that was there as well right and a we wouldn't miss this for the world kind of a thing that's for sure but that kind of one-on-one that intimacy that was made that ceremony special as well and there was a safer Torah right on that flight as well and again here today we see that there's a safer Torah always a safer T being not always I don't think but very often a safer tour being brought from North America to Israel for its new home which is pretty remarkable as well it actually won't be our own our only safer to experience this trip right because we have the big aasa safer toour with the Cutler family happening at Yen CS y on Thursday night which everyone will hear on Friday morning at JMM we just ran through the schedule a few minutes ago and there's a lot to expect this week from us here in Israel and I hope everyone will be tuned in all through the week here at JM in the am okay where are we heading um well I'm going to go grab Tony okay we can get him on it we should bring herbody fast with him if that's possible meanwhile remind everybody that we have a uh a full week of programming here at JM and the am JM the.org and later on today we're actually going to be doing a live lunch zk's live lunch we're going to be doing a live lunch from the Inbal hotel which has become a tradition for us uh here at the nak Seagal Network that's right the birthday live lunch we'll be celebrating zk's birthday make sure we have a cake for the live lunch for zk's birthday of course yeah Ian I've ordered it myself I mean there's not a chance in the world we'd forget that no no and we'll be speaking with him coming we're going to sing ha yum who it and I think we have both Tony and convening at the same time how do you like that imag Tony gelbart who is co-founder of nefes Benes and chairman of the organization and who we spoke to just a few minutes ago on the plane you may recall yes I do and now we are here post the ceremony after the dign Aries have addressed the crowd after the celebration has taken place after all the music has played and now the oim are processing and finishing up all their uh things that they need to do in the terminal next door and that does it for yet another celebration must be an incredible feeling having been here for yet another one look it's it's absolutely mindboggling because no matter how many times I do this and you know just ceremony just it's kind of like the balloon just got let out for me because you you retired before you got here you're slepping on the plane you get here and you have such a Ru and such an amazing feeling looking at everybody and then now they just left and went to Israel so for me the balloon just let the air out and for them the balloon is getting bigger and bigger and bigger but they'll relax over Shabbat trust me their dreams have become a reality and that reality is getting bigger and bigger and better and better so we asked Natan shansky a few minutes ago I say to him I thought I was being clever frankly um I said how different was this Aliyah of today from your Aliah you know meaning Natan sh's Aliyah he is not much different at all he says for thousands of years Jews have been pining to get back to the Holy Land to be in the land of Israel so yeah there's no question that I was taken directly from prison to Israel okay that may be a little bit different but other than that we're all dreaming the same dream we're all hoping to accomplish the same goal and we all want to end up here in the state of Israel I thought that was telling R fast what do you think that that his experience with Aliyah and today's experience with Aliyah was more similar than we might think I think it's it's a profound statement I think when you distill it down to its basic core value I mean that's how Natan viewed it then it doesn't all the trappings and the hoopla and the and the circumstances are secondary to this concept of a Jew returning home and I think it's very profound one can only imagine what he thinks as he sees this crowd every time and has he joined you practically for every ceremony I would assume at this point almost right for many cuz he was one of the first supporters we before we even launched in 2002 Tony and I sat with Natan this is this is I mean politics for Natan and uh he was very supportive so he's been coming to them to to to these ceremonies prepositions in the government prepositions in Jewish agency and what about the government officials who come here what is their perspective can they are they stunned are they in disbelief that so many people would like to be here what what is their attitude when they see this it's the first time that they're here they're just stunned and overwhelmed by the people themselves but if they've been and look we have some issues sometime we we have flights and many ministers and andess want to come and you know you can have 120 speeches here but the are tired so today long enough you know you know the old saying I say it a million times you know Su success has many fathers failures an orphan that's correct but we have a lot of fathers thank God thank God lot people want to take credit right you know Natan you mentioned about Natan Nan looked over to me I said Natan go upstage because they're taking a picture with oim and the and the new and he goes you know I just rather enjoy it from right here looking around I enjoy it by just looking around he said to me and I understand the feeling he just sitting back and just enjoying it as a bystander not as the head of the Jewish I've heard a lot from politicians as well that it's like a booster shot of Zionism there's a lot of cynicism that can happen in this country and when you come again going back to core values and you see a longing and actualization of that longing and celebrating with oim it brings you back to uh to why we're here strips us of the cynicism and and really focuses and highlights the positive elements Sor one more but but the politicians also understand and I talk about politicians that this is the good news this is good news you wake up in the morning tomorrow or tonight when you see the TV you'll open a t you know the TV or open the newspaper you see the good news o came everybody's happy everybody's smiling and there's no political there's no politics or religion or anything involved here it's just people Jews making Aliah early on early on both of you must have gotten that impression from those who are in Israel for most of their lives not all of their lives that we needed a couple of guys from North America to come and tell us how great it is toiv here like we we just needed that you know some things get so jaded or you know uh depressing at times cuz there are difficult circumstances we needed a couple of people that come from the other side of the world just let us know how remarkable this place is did you get that feeling early on my fast I'm not sure how you put that statement if you're if you're focusing on the positive elements yes yeah that's what I mean people needed that boost what was it like hearing your mother describe what she thinks of your accomplishments I didn't hear it I walked away thankfully well we did stress to her that you know you're a Jewish hero after all that's that's a term used too too Loosely you think so I don't know in your case it might be appropriate frankly with both of you well there you have it uh the message is very simple we've had an opportunity both on the plane and here at the celebration to remind everybody that if they're thinking of Aliah now is a good opportunity for them to start the whole process uh they what flight is this for you n we were trying to figure it out I think it's five or six does that make sense and was this different for you than others me you know why this flight was different I mean flying on five or six right but you've covering many yeah we've been on a million flights but this um this was different because I believe this was the flight that for us had many many more families than soldiers this was a real but one of the things I loved about this flight was watching the incredible Jewish Mothers deal with you know four kids at a time very close in age and they just you know you think you're going to see frustration and you think you're going to see you know people giving up on the whole thing and they just kept forging ahead and they just they projected to their children such a wonderful um uh such a wonderful disposition uh about the whole experience and then of course we put a kid or two on the air with them a few minutes ago and the kids are in seventh heaven they've been counting down to this day you know for weeks I standing on the bottom of the staircase with a minister and This Woman's walking down and there's a kid literally lying on her on the mother's head and another kid's on the woman's back and I'm like oh my gosh and the mother smiling from here to here like just an adorable occurrence enjoying the moment it was hysterical greatest but as as good mothers and fathers that they were on the plane whether changing diapers and feeding them and making sure the kids are happy whatever age they were I was watching them come down the plane which we do and he talking about families all of a sudden they all looked fresh like they took showers and cleaned up they're wearing their new t-shirts and they're putting on these bed and ribbons in their hairs and bows in their hairs and and all of a sudden it's like woo welcome home good morning you know well on the bus I turned to one of these mothers and I said wow you know it's amazing what you've done she said it's so much easier when you know there's no return flight that's great line is that wonderful oh my God so there you have it so it's a day of Celebration as all these families and all these incredible people from different backgrounds from different geographical locations in North America from different lines of work uh from different uh religious affiliations from different perspectives when it comes to Israel and the Army and all the different things that are zionis uh they all come together for this one purpose you pointed that out at Kennedy airport it's may I don't know of too many other organizations that can pull together a diverse crowd like this with one common goal and seeing everybody celebrate together is just wonderful it's the goal not the organization but it's the goal that brings people together yeah that's so true maal than so much thank you so much thanks for having us thank you for sharing the experience with us thanks for helping us deliver this message to the Jews of North America and the world I mentioned that there is a golden opportunity to um join this process of Aliyah uh all you got to do is um go to the web at NBN org.il again that's NBN org.il at the same time you can go to uh your telephone at 8664 alah 866 the number four and then a i y a why am I laughing not laughing why am I so giddy it's because the director of PRI Alia Mark Rosenberg who's been a guest of ours before and is always a great guest of ours is here with us in our makeshift studio in an airport hanger I would assume this is the first interview you've ever been part of in an airport Hangar am I right yes the closest to the tarmac I've ever been to it and and interviewed at the same time I mean they actually put planes in this building huh we're welcoming to O and suddenly this wing of the plane comes by as we're waiting for the uh waiting for the actual to get off I'm like that's not our plane but it's very close to us you can say that again so here we are at the airport and it's a day one of the rest of their lives this incredible group of o an experience you've had yes right you were an O at one point I guess you're still an O right um you know there's the question is when when do you stop calling yourself an O kadash and the answer is if you ask the question then uh then you know it's time then no no then you have to keep on saying it um no I made Al without neish pfish which the same year it started so I was greeted at the airport by myself and went out so it's a different experience um but my eight years working here and this is my eighth summer of of coming to the airport it it doesn't lose the specialness um but the perspect itive changes cuz now I get to stand in the back after the hard work and and people come up to me as they were leaving and this one family said we met Alia 2 years ago and it's so interesting to see how much changes in two years from the perspective of being here two years and uh seeing our kids more settled and the the nausea and and anxiety of of the jet lag you're worrying about and did I pack everything is is totally you know released and now their kids are speaking Hebrew more and integrated and they were smiling and and and to see that uh that that transition is is really remarkable and and that that gives me a sense of excitement Mark Rosenberg is with us someone calls someone goes to the website expresses an interest in doing this bringing their family to Israel or if they themselves are you know single person bring themselves to Israel uh what happens next are they contacted by someone at your office are they uh you know are they um vetted to see if they if Aliah is for them how would you say it works there are two types of people I think that there are um there's many types of people but there's two types of people that are interested in Aliah there's the firsttime callers um who who wonder and they call up and we have Aliah advisers that are able to guide them and say okay we we don't we don't phrase it this way but like what's your obstacle what's holding you back we say we say it nicer and say what are you looking forward to do have you thought about what what you'll do for a potential employment opportunities you know where's your dream place to live um and we we take that basic conversation and try to build with them in aliia plan and that's that's trying not to overwhelm them in that first conversation so we try and tease them a little some of the information and then we follow up based on when they think they're coming whether it's in the next year or in the next two years um the second type of person is um I guess it's more of a social media term they're the lurkers the people who are on you know are watching everything they're probably they watch the webcast they're listening to your program they probably have been around our website a bunch of times they've talked to people who have made Aliah they come here to visit for for Bar Mitzvah or or summer vacation and they they've peaked over the fence the schools that are there and they they've sat at the Shabbat table and they they've they've listened to people go through the process so when they call up they're asking very specific questions they're like okay I'm a nurse I have good Hebrew what do I need to do for the licensing process or listen I I'm I I Define myself religiously or jewishly according to this uh what's the best community me for me to be with some some English speakers but some Israelis that my kids will be able to do X Y and Z and still have a baseball team and therefore we're able to answer very specific questions for them it's just interesting it's like it's like the curve ball that you pick up the phone you don't know whether it's going to be someone saying hi you know I've always I heard about what do I need to do and you have to go through the ABCs and then someone calls up and it's like they need they need XYZ they they they have the desire they have that intensity they just they've waited to call us until they have that you know the that final that final uh screw or bolt that's going to that build the plan together and that's a a pleasure to be able to the puzzle for those people Mark rosenberg's with us a couple of things I've learned over the last few months because people ask me questions believe it or not about moving to Israel so first of all if somebody wants to get licensed as a physician of any type here in this country they actually have to make Aliah right there's no such thing as because we've seen where people you know commute back and forth things like that but they actually have to become a real correct so correct uh there are people I mean many of the commuters still keep their practices or uh work the licenses in North America there's this uh famous ol that we hear about that goes back to like Northern Canada uh like two times two times a year for like two weeks and earns enough money for the year because like it's a hard place to be the doctor for these uh First Nation Aborigines in in north northwest uh Canada and they they earn their income that way so that's the people who keep their keep their parosa in North America but I think that uh a lot of people are looking to integrate their life and therefore they want to be here and they want to work here so we have a specialist that helps them with their licensing and on the other side of it um people who are transitioning there are opportunities I again I don't want to put this one opportunity to for people to talk about but uh sometimes people say hey I want to start they'll work at terum which is uh the first care which I know is now a more popular a popular uh institution my my sister lives in Manhattan that they they go to Urgent Care yeah so ter teram is urgent care so that you have you have a way for some North American doctors to transition their license and still work and and practice here but it's precisely th those type of questions that um that that the difference between wondering and um and actually exploring people people wonder oh you know uh I always want to launch my own radio station people don't ask me questions about the radio business they don't I'm glad to see that people ask you about Alia questions um yeah one or two don't worry so uh so it's it's it's it's important to explore we say the difference between a a dream and a goal is a a goal has a has a deadline on it right so we we we want to move people from just dreaming about it to actually say okay I have a goal to explore Al I have a goal to actually meet with an aliia expert uh I know you've had Rachel Burger on here A bunch of times and she's really has more than a of experience in helping people helping people um build uh employment plans and I think that that's the important step to take forward for many people Mark rosenberg's with us uh do you know about uh well I don't know what's your department what falls under your jurisdiction but do you do you know of any obscure places in Israel that people are moving to from today's flight um I looked at the list in general I think that uh obscure is a weird term I I such thing anymore I I don't know I uh people when people ask me U like you know oh what's the What's a affordable place to live I say affordable is always a subjective term right so um obscure listen for some people a place like uh or even G but uh orov sounds sounds bizarre to C certain years the idea for some people to live outside Y is like bizarre because that's their dream place but it's interesting that Jerusalem is still the number one destination for but it does have a bounce rate it does have a after a year or two people say oh you know I'm looking for other options or something more affordable and they realize that all of Israel is wonderful um it doesn't have the beautiful night air that Jerusalem has or the special personality so I think that you see uh the traditional places that we're talking about um where oim are are really are moving to what we call the periphery beyond beyond the the Diamond of you have mod and be and and and ranana the two like the four the four Diamond places where many Anglo English speakers are going to they're going to places like Bersa they're going TOA they're going to Carmel zon's coming up there um you see places like again I hear rovo coming up a lot right um and ashalon was uh came up today I don't know if you've ever been to ashalon I've been there it's hard to believe people are moving there frankly it's it's actually really really beautiful I have this dream which I'm not I guess it's just a dream and not a plan it's a wonderful place that you can buy beach front property and live in a 10-minute walk from the beach and it has everything of a normal Jewish Community has it just has a small South African oim group there that's been there for about maybe 20 25 years and a recent influx of of North Americans and Canadians and Americans so it's it's has the right temperature it's close to the beach it's an hour from us it's 45 minutes from Tel Aviv so people are saying you know what I'll be able to visit my kids in mod bees ranana and I'll be able to be in Ash it's uh boy there's so many options out there it's incredible we just met someone last week who's been living in y since they Ali about 18 months ago now they're moving to T Aviv y um I think that's it's an interesting point about that um uh when young people are think about making Aliah the the traditional Place many people say is I'm to go to um it's also not because there's wonderful up there and obviously the the idea ofes but it's seen as the traditional place they call the you know Kat is is the upper west side of of Jerusalem or the swamp as the Israeli term because that's you know has that dating connotation of that's that's where everyone sinks in and meets each other but um GMU outside Tel Aviv which is where Ban's campuses is is is the place where most young people are really moving to now um people are going to the IDC or Tel Aviv or even going HEB University for students that's the place where the young people are congregating so the stories that we told ourselves or I'll pick on the New York Times here the New York Times had a story about two years ago about as it always has every single day a story about Israel and and and and it told the story about like in Jerusalem an ultra an ultra Orthodox person gathers Stones ready for the protest on Shaban and two gay men walk their dogs in the beach of Tel Aviv and it's the simplistic story of Jerusalem is for religious people and Tel Aviv is for liberals or non-orthodox people but the story is complet completely opposite we see we see uh lots of families um and singles who Define themselves as traditional Orthodox that are moving to Tel Aviv and give ASO areas and we see equally people who are non-orthodox moving to shal because of the opportunities and the the the startup the startup economy that is there but that that fabric of the story that's that's that is um that is different isn't translating beyond the headlines so I'm not surprised I'm not surprised that Tel Aviv is becoming a destination I will tell you a personal story when I studied in Israel um in a year that started with a one in front of it um I had an adopted I had an adoptive family in Tel Aviv she is from my hometown in chero she married a Seventh Generation Israeli so I used to go there for Shabbat every now and then and they davened at R goru who was a chief Rabbi of Israel famous for his chauffeur blowing at the at the cotel after The Six Day War so his SCH was he was he was a robin t t and we doin at his SCH and when I would go there on Friday the only place to eat was like a flaff stand around there and I used to joke I was counting the Kipas when I when I was walking to shore you go there now 20 years later okay there are too many josha restaurants to to to to count in the area the the identity of of of Tel Aviv has changed as the fabric of Israeli Society has has matured and changed and and and broken down stereotypes so I think that it's it's it's people who have a fear of spending a day traveling in Tel Aviv or or exploring it if it's about the humidity you should be afraid that is a legitimate fear of the humidity in Tel Aviv although here here we're feeling it pretty bad say that again um but uh it it it has this uh has this magic that is definitely attracting a lot of people and and first and foremost it has an incredible economy it is uh it is uh although Jerusalem claims it's the largest city in Israel if you attach you know khone or Rishon to Tel Aviv it is um it is the the heartbeat of the economy of Israel as well amazing so many opportunities so many options it's really incredible Mark I thank you Mark Rosenberg he's director of priia here at neish benfish 8664 alah nb. org. give us a call have a wonderful summer ahead thank you you too expect another great great Charter flight just a few weeks from now there he is Mark Rosenberg start wrapping things up how how we doing on time where are we on time with this edition of JM theam we have five minutes left five minutes to go as we wrap things up and start considering why on Earth we're going back to the United States yeah that's what it's all about want to thank our friends at Travel cell for keeping us connected uh go to travel cell.com for information about their services for Israel and the world Miriam Wallock is here and uh we have her final impressions of this incredible day you know it began I don't know if you remember do you remember that this whole thing began with a ceremony at Kennedy Airport which seems like days and days ago at this point it wasn't it was not days ago it was yesterday believe it or not um it feels like a long time ago certainly does I I joked with you on the plane that I got the question of my career at JFK when this gentleman walked over to me and said are you in charge of the sandwiches uh no that wouldn't be me but if it has to but if it meant having a position with that benef then I'm in'll take it I'll I'll do it I'm happy order the sandwiches it really doesn't matter exactly but I joke I I put that in the family WhatsApp group and my oldest goes yes you are in charge of the sandwiches found the right person no matter where you go you're in charge of sandwiches exactly exactly you know the um with everyone that we've interviewed and this entire experience and watching everyone wrap up and seeing the fruits of tremendous labor on so many different levels it was the interview of kava's friend Miriam oh Miriam Blum with with those t-shirts that say Miriam's alah that I think just totally messed with me just 100% just totally messed with me and she had a contingent wearing those t-shirts to greet her relatives and friends nobody made me a shirt but that's okay I mean imagine she's I assume I assume she's 18 years old I assume she's 18 years old she's now moving to Israel getting ready to live here is so happy and that happiness certainly came through on these Airwaves when we spoke with her for a minute I want to thank our entire team want to thank ZK birthday boy ZK yes is he going to be answering to birthday boy all day do I have to call him ZK I hope it'll be birthday boy I want to thank Jamie turel want to thank Elon Elon Catz the whose last name I'm going to remember one of these shows Elon cats is engaged to be married yes very very soon that's why I'm calling him the Cen it's not just nickname I understand that okay I want to thank Yoni and aami Back in the New York area or Baltimore wherever they may be hanging out and we're going to be broadcasting live from the Inbal tonight beginning at uh 6 which means everyone will hear it at 11:00 a.m. eastern time just two hours after the conclusion of JM and the am will be at the Inbal Hotel same location as last time on the on the Mir P head correct the Executive Suite ninth floor um balcony uh with the most amazing view of Jerusalem and unlike last time which was February it'll still be light out so we'll be able to actually show everybody how incredible that view is if they watch a video at knam seal.com yeah there won't be as much fetching about the cold I would assume not there'll be a lot of fetching from people like you about the heat but none about the cold Z if you could get my eye roll on camera right now that because I always say you can complain about one type of weather and that's about it how much time do I have left 27 now which means what which means we have three minutes to go so good with the counting I I just am completely confused you know it was it was such an incredibly we're still going it was such an incredibly spirited flight um you know with very little sleep for anybody who was there so it was just you know like I'm completely confused I can't calculate time at the moment it's impossible by the way leave it to the end of the broadcast to now have a technical issue yeah well everything everything we did on the plane was fine ZK thank God I have battery back yes yes there are two uses for 9vt Batteries one is your smoke detector and two ZK zk's emergencies n oh by the way ZK you should just know that nakum gave me the compliment of a lifetime this week when he told me that I was the ZK of the kitchen right anything that goes wrong in the kitchen I can fix because something had gone wrong with one of the shows and it's possible that there was it was a kitchen related problem and you were able to ZK the situation I was which is now a verb correct um and by the way our system on the plane which was incredible it was awesome set up by you uh really worked that well I'm telling you I I cannot get over how well that show the first half of this show went on the plane earlier today so call aote to ZK for all that y catsman thank youat amazing thank you for all your help thank you for letting us be part of this entire process and congratulations on yet another successful alah for hundreds of oim Amen just incredible and so un so amazing uh and so amazing and so uh remarkable um later this week tomorrow we're with our friends at ravim on Thursday we'll be doing a Wednesday night radio show from bate May year with our friends from ncsy Cola which you'll hear Thursday morning between 6:00 and 9: on Thursday night y ncsy including the Haka safer Tor with the Cutler family that's going to be happening on Thursday night we'll be broadcasting that on Friday's Jam you know the whole world is in Cleveland but we're in Israel everyone goes to Cleveland for all the activities that are going on there and we go to a much much better place for this week of broadcasting right why would I want to be in Cleveland when I can be here exactly yeah and then at M this coming weekend actually on which you'll hear on Monday the RNC is in Cleveland why who's asking I'm in Israel and I'm not saying who's asking folks I knew that okay just in case anyone suspecting right it wasn't n um Monday's JM and the am which is the first show during our three weeks format will be that conversation and radio show that we're going to be doing on Sunday from M A Yeshiva in the gush that has experienced plenty of Challen challenges over the last few years brothers and sisters in Israel we are with you it's your favorite America's one and only Jewish moments in the morning radio program heard on listeners sponsored WFMU East Orange W mfu Mount Hope Rockland County at 91.9 on the FM doal broadcasting from the Sonia and Robert gold studios in Jersey City New Jersey around the world in the web JM m.org and of course on the NSN app and that will wrap things up and there as we play the hatia in the background there was nothing like the hatia we just heard here among all the oim as the tech guest as the ceremony was coming to its conclusion uh there's no better feeling than that the collective Haik was sung by hundreds of people at the neish benfish ceremony my thanks to mam Mal wallik my thanks to everybody at neish benfish my thanks to our entire staff here and in the United States and our special thank you to Rabbi fast and Tony gelbart for joining us as part of this broadcast both here at the airport and earlier on the plane till till tomorrow nak sigle reminding you remember the past live the present and Trust the future oh