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We are joined by an amazing delegation, a delegation that includes people from France and people from the United States and people from Israel, all here together in a Jewish unity initiative that delivers one very simple message. When Jews and are in a challenging situation anywhere on this globe, their brothers and sisters care. Beyond that, with the attacks of November the 13th fresh in the minds of everybody around the world and for sure everybody here in Paris, we spent some time and that is where the audio came from before Modani this morning. We spent some time at different memorials over the last couple of days, including the very very large one at the Bataklan theater in Paris. And that's where that selection uh done by youngster UAT Saddok was recorded. And we felt to gather together with everybody Jew and non-Jew alike and to stress that we are all one. Those who are freedom loving, those who want to live in peace and harmony are in are are as one in light of these attacks are as one in the face of the enemy. And this message which has been making an international impression over the last couple of weeks and has been met with so much support and enthusiasm by our listeners and those who take great pride in our work is spreading throughout the entire world. And that brings us to today Thursday morning. And you'll hear about the concert later on. You'll hear details about what happened last night and some of the things that were so inspiring. You'll hear plenty of that during this show and I'm sure over the next few weeks as well. There are people that we that are traveling with us, very prominent members of the community who are going to be joining to emphasize this message and who are going to be uh taking great pride in what we've been able to accomplish. Yes, us, the little engine that could at the NHL Seagull network, making an international splash on one of the most important topics of our day and that is Jewish unity. We wanted to light up this world on Kaneka, to take these candles of Kanuka and allow them to shine forth and to eliminate the darkness. And we are doing our little part to do just that. More coming up with some of our special guests, more music, and of course, a review of last night's concert. All happening on a Thursday morning broadcast from Paris. You are listening to JM in the A.M. Oh wow. [Music] Oh my [Music] Fish tim. [Music] My memor is more. [Applause] as a moral [Music] [Laughter] [Music] Rock of aes, let our sorrow, praise thy saving power. [Music] Thou amidst the raing was our sheltering tower. Yours the message that the time is near. Oh, which will see. We'll see. We'll see. Tire [Music] disappear which will all free. Test disappear. [Music] Oh, more she can't mean [Music] More be more a [Music] new. How did the Mabes make it into our uh postcon broadcast? Well, we have a very special guest and I think because everyone knows that the Makabites are from Yeshiva University and that's where they were founded, you could understand why we went ahead and to sandwich this conversation that we're about to have between a couple of great Kanuka selections from the Yeshiva University Makabes. the first person that we approached to join us in Paris when it was really just a dream. When we were getting no enthusiasm, when we were when people thought we were absolutely crazy to try to make this happen in the city of lights, the first person we turned to, not only for his words of encouragement, but to actually join us here, President Richard Joel of Yeshiva University. And before he speaks, I will tell everybody that I never realized how badly I really wanted him with us until we saw him here on Wednesday for the first time. And then it struck me how meaningful it is to me that he is part of this incredible mission. President Richard Joel, happy Kanekas. Thank you for spending some of your Kaneka with us here in Paris. It's great. It's my great pleasure and I'm honored. I'm honored to be with you. Um, and I'm glad that I I gave you that sense of enthusiasm, but I also did think you were crazy. And I'm not sure I've changed my view. That may be that may be the case still now. Did you think we're crazy? Um, there's nothing like simplicity. In the media, we would say there's nothing like a sound bite. in your area of uh expertise, the world of higher education, you would say there's nothing like being able to in a very simplistic form convey a message to a student, to a colleague, or on a greater scale to your student body or the community. And our message has been one that's very simple. And that is that if Jews are in any type of challenging situation on this globe, they need to know and feel that their brothers and sisters around the world care about them. And this I I never thought a simplistic message like this could get the um momentum behind it that it has. But thank God it has. Look, people are hungry for meaning. Young people want to matter and we forget about that and we fill our lives with all kinds of noise. But occasionally when a voice arises and says this matters and it's simple and it's easy, there's a tremendous response that comes from people. I said that um on a couple of occasions over the last couple of weeks, including I think the time you were with us to introduce the fact that you were coming to Paris as part of this delegation. And I said 98% of the people who we mentioned this concept to were enthusiastic about it. Now some said you know I don't know if that's such a positive thing. If 98% agree with you it can't be that revolutionary you know but I felt differently. I felt it was that 2% that objected that really really uh solidified and verified. There's another word I'm looking for that that that gave its real stamp of approval to what we're doing because there's a small percentage who don't get it, but the majority of people in our community really understand it. I think the word you were looking for was validation. Validation. Thank you. Cuz I'm an educator. I could I could know that. But you should know that because you're a graduate of Yoshida University. That's correct. It just slipped my mind for a moment. Look, the truth is there are always people who are opposed. some of them for articulable reasons and others just because it's good to be opposed. Um uh it's nice if you're secure enough not to listen. My wife says when I get 39 compliments and one um criticism, all I think about is the criticism. I know what you mean, but that's only now once I'm secure. It was worse in the earlier days. Right. Look, I think what you're doing the the the message and the timing are right. Um, it's a it's there's a lot of hardness in the world. Uh, I'm very aware of it because I spend my life investing in young people to build a better one. Um, there's a lot of hardness in the world. Uh, a lot of of toughness and meanness. And, uh, to the degree that there are clear messages, often they're messages without nuance and they're ugly because they can be said in sound bites in a negative way. No question. so important and refreshing to have sound bites that carry with it more. And I think frankly the fact that that that there have been a a year of tragic situations particularly in France uh for the Jewish community and more recently for for all of Paris. Um and frankly it's something that frightens all of us wherever we are. Yeah. including the United States that that uh to be able to be here on Kaneka and to implicitly and explicitly share the message of Kaneka. I mean, I think it goes back before the makabim, before the makabites, because if you if you look at and certainly before my makabites. Um, and um, but if you look at the Torah, if you look at the the five books of Moses and you ask what are the first words that God ever speaks in the Torah, you know what they are? You are let there be light. Yeah. Our theme, right? The first thing before a human being is created is the mandate to create light out of dark and order out of chaos. And everything we do since then is to try to make that real. And and uh I'm not sure you can order all the chaos around us right now, but you can illumine you can illumin the good. You can play to the heart and we can all do that. We that's the message of Kaneka. The message is we hope that people do take this message and in their own way spread that light and and in their own way eliminate the darkness in their own way affect the lives of those in need whether they be you know thousands of miles away in this case far away from our families or if they be you know next door. I think there's there's another message that you have done and you you wouldn't say it so I'll say it. Um this is something that that wasn't in your interest to do. It was something that came from an enormous heart. And what you basically did is say, "What do I do? What do I, Nah, Seagull, do?" And you said, "You know, I I I bring music into the world. I bring thoughtfulness into the world. I bring Torah into the world. I'm hurting by all this evil. Let me do what I do in a venue that makes a difference." So, not only is that splendid, um, but it's also a lesson for everybody because we can all bring what we do to a place where it can matter even more. Don't leave me yet it. I'm going to hold you for another few minutes. Uh, you mentioned bringing bringing it here. We are sitting in a side room of one of the most historic religious edififices in our history and that is the great synagogue of Paris. You've been in the main sanctuary, what some people are calling because of the Wednesday night concert, a combination sanctuary and concert hall. The way it's now situated, we are in such an incredibly historic building in such an incredibly historic Jewish neighborhood and such an incredibly historic Jewish part of the world. France is a, as we've said many times this week, is really the center of the diaspora. At least it was for centuries, the center of the diaspora. And it continues to be that way in many ways. And we are here with this message tonight. And people ask me why the president of Yeshiva University. You've said Nah, that you know you opened the show and said the first person we approached was the president of Yeshiva University. And I think that the explanation that I've been given giving to members of the media about what Jewish unity is is what brought me to you first. They ask me Jewish a concert for Jewish unity. What's Jew? You know, everybody of course you know how the media is. you know, a little a little a combination of tongue and cheek and and sometimes a a mean approach, right? And they said, "What is this Jewish unity?" I said, "You know what Jewish unity is? We're never going to agree on everything." And across the Jewish spectrum, we have plenty of disagreement and a lot of very challenging issues that we take on. But Jewish unity is that when your brother or sister is knocked down, when they're knocked down, when it looks like they're down and out and don't know how they're going to recover, instead of kicking them when they're down, which is what others might do, instead of kicking them when they're down, we're there to give them a pickme up. And it could be any member of the community from right to left, up and down. And I just felt that your institution at least the way I know it and you know how beloved it is to me that your institution and of course you as its leader understand and share the same value. We have a lot in going on in the Jewish world and you and I could sit for hours talking about the schisms and the the the intense and heated discussions that go on across the spectrum. But I believe we're of the same mind that when our brothers or sisters are down and out, we are going to be there to do whatever possible for them. Of course, it's always been true. I I often joke that the Jewish people are better at division than they are at multiplication. Um uh but it's a serious it's a serious thing. Hopefully if we learn what we always do, which is we pull together at times of of of of tar of of of bad times. Um somehow it shouldn't be that much more difficult to pull together when there's not a crisis. It shouldn't be that difficult to learn to disagree agreeably. It shouldn't be that difficult to model civility. And I think that's the ultimate concern that we have. And one of the reasons that I was honored to be asked and happy to fly over here um is to be part of that voice that we have to we have to be good and do good and it creates good. uh you know you mentioned that the uh the the synagogue on the RD de la Vtoar uh is part of the the great history um of our people and I think it's wonderful to always point that out. Uh but I never hesitate to say that our history is only one part of the equation. Uh our destiny is what's in our hands. We can learn history, we can learn from history. History already is. Uh the question is what's destiny? you know, Yeshiva University um uh does all that it can from uh from having wonderful teachers and inspiring students and trying to get the public to support it so that it goes on and doing all types of things like that. Um this Sunday we have our Kaneka dinner in New York if I get to go backstand and and and among the things. Can you believe that you showed up here days before your biggest event of the year? This is really sick. I just must tell you. And I don't know if it's cuz I'm intimidated because you're 7 feet tall. Um or because I see your soul and I have a hard time saying no to that. Um and you know what? It's an honor. It's an honor. Oh, and by the way, if you don't mind, when you see Mark Wilf on Sunday night, you can remind him how he and so many others have been so encouraging to us, have basically said whatever it is you need to make this happen in every which way, shape, and form. and you know how incredibly valuable their family has been to your institution. Well, in fact, we're giving him an honorary degree on Sunday night along with several others and the governor of New York and Rabbi Herb de Brinsky who I think has done things for every Jew. Um, and Ben Choak who runs Norpack, which is very important, and a wonderful fellow named Norman Sternthal, who's a leader of the Montreal community. Every every person you just mentioned in some way has over the years expressed enthusiasm for what we do here. So, I thank you. Yeah, but I'm glad that Mark Wolf does. And and and Mark Wolf said that anything you need. He's been amazing. Can I bring you with me to him? That's a great line. Anything you need. Although the the Wolf family perhaps is our premier family in terms of guidance and philanthropy. Amazing people. Um but uh but but you know the the frankly again I just want to say let's not take lightly that it's Hanukkah. Let's not take lightly how we how how one candle can illumin. and a candle when you when you try to light another candle, it lights that candle and it's not diminished. So, the power of that kind of goodwill, the power of of of living a proudly informed Jewish life and believe that we're supposed to illumin is is is worth traveling across the world with you for. I appreciate that very much. And again, when I first saw you here, it hit me how badly I wanted you here. That was after our discussion from months ago. So, I thank you very very much. Well, I I I feel fulfilled doing it, too. Now that we both feel fulfilled, uh let's realize that we have a real privilege in being able to do this. No question about it. I thank you and happy Kanuka. And to you, too. Thank you. And enjoy the dinner on Sunday night. Thank you very, very much. Certainly. More coming up. It's JM and the AM from Paris. Can you believe it? And that's the president of University, Richard Joel, proudly part of our incredible American delegation. uh proudly one of the presenters at the Wednesday night concert with a very special message, one that includes our message of Jewish unity and being there for our brothers and sisters. You are listening to JM in the A.M. [Music] Light one candle for the Mcabes children. Give thanks that their light didn't die. Light one candle for the pain they endured when their right to exist was denied. Light one candle for the terrible sacrifice justice and freedom demand. But light one candle for the wisdom to know when the peacemakers time is at hand. Don't let the light go out. It's lasted for so many years. Don't let the light go out. Let it shine through our love and our [Music] tears. Light one candle for the strength that we need. They never become our own fo. And light one candle for those who are suffering. Pain we learn. so long ago. Light one candle for all we believe in. Let anger not tear us apart. And light one candle to find us together with peace as the song in our hearts. Don't let the light go out. It's lasted for so many years. Don't let the light go out. Let it shine through our love and our tears. Don't let the light go out. It's lasted for so many years. Don't let the light go out. Let it shine through our love and our tears. What is the memory that's valued so highly that we keep it alive in that flame? What's the commitment to those who have died? That we cry out they've not died in vain. We have come this far, always believing that justice would somehow prepare. This is the burden. This is the promise. And this is why we will not f [Applause] [Music] Don't let the light shine. Don't let the light. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Don't let the light Don't let the light Don't let the light JM in the AM with at the mabits. My thanks again to President Richard Joel of Vish University. Well, speaking of presidents, we are here with the president of the great synagogue of Paris, Jacques Jacqu Canid Canid. A pleasure to meet you. Pleasure. I'm very happy to be here. The first time we met was just Monday. It was Monday. That was the first time we met. I wish you have given us this amazing opportunity to be in the synagogue and really turn it into an experience of a concert inside the sanctuary and yet we only know each other face to face for a couple of days. So, number one, I say thank you. You're welcome. You're very welcome. I'm so happy to receive you here. All my career as the president of the synagogue has been uh very related to the uh to New York and my American friends. So I'm so happy to receive you here. I greatly appreciate it. Uh what did you think when you first heard that we wanted to bring this concept to Paris that we wanted to gather together in this way? In terms of concert, it wasn't a surprise because we very familiar to organize big major concerts here in the synagogue. But when I heard that you uh New Yorkers wanted to uh commemorate the 11th months of the tragedy that we lived in January, I was very very very um touched. Very touched. Yes. really because we had in January a very difficult ceremony on January 11th and uh so today it's for us a very important moment very important moment well I thank you for that president of lovear the great synagogue how how many years have you served as president here as a president about 10 years and uh as a member of the board treasurer vice president for 25 years so I was married here. This is my synagogue for It's really It's the It's the synagogue. It's everybody's synagogue, right? You even said to me it's really the city of Paris's synagogue. Yeah, it's um in Paris, as you know, there are today about 80 synagogues, Paris and suburbs, but this one has all has been created about as 150 years ago as a major synagogue of the Jewish community. It's uh it's a kind of link between the country between the republic and the republic and the Jewish community. Right. So um it's all the uh official ceremonies take place here. The members of the governor and the president of the country is coming here for ceremonies. So it's we it's a very important and it is the head office of the chief rabbi of Paris and chief rabbi of France for uh 150 years. Their seat is officially in this synagogue. Yeah. They have the official seats here, right? Um, there are many beautiful sanctuaries in the world. Mhm. But this one is unique. Yes. For those who have not walked into this sanctuary, and I remember the first time two weeks ago when I did, it was an exhilarating experience. What can you tell us? What makes this so incredible? I I'm telling you that because it's 150 years old, uh it's been created by Napoleon III who was a nephew of Napoleon the first and in the mid and the idea of creating this synagogue took place in the middle of 19th century. At that time, Jews were French citizens since the revolution for almost 50 years. And they took such a prominent place in the development of the country in terms of arts, in terms of economy, in terms of everything that Napoleon the third was the emperor was very grateful and he wanted to uh prove that the nation loved his Jews at that time, right? And therefore uh he gave uh the piece of land here. And this district is a very important district because at that time all the head office of the banks, insurance company, department stores, theaters uh um were managed by Jews that time and all were in this area. So it was a very important area uh very active and there was a piece of land used to belong to the imperial family here and uh the emperor gave this piece of land to the city of Paris with the the will to build a synagogue with the Jewish community. So it was built to to show how how well integrated the Jews were at that time. Understood. So, and this is why it it was built I kind of cathedral uh cathedral style. It's they wanted to show that Jews were not different than the others. So, it's one of the reasons that it looks so spectacular. That's for sure. Um this message that we're bringing from the different parts of the world that we are concerned, we have care for our brothers and sisters who are going through a challenging situation. Life in Paris for the Jewish community is somewhat challenging now. We know. What is your reaction to that? My reaction is uh I would say that for the last 18 months uh since July uh 14 uh uh you you you might know what happened in Paris uh in July uh 2014. Uh there was Arab demonstration in the street of Paris, right? and uh many many people demonstrating and saying death to the Jews at that time which never happened for decades in Paris since second world war. So at stalling at that time we were very very very uh anxious and we said it to the government and uh this was the first time for a decade that that that was occurring and unfortunately after seven months happened what happened in January with Charlie so once again we said oh look there's something which is very dangerous which is occurring. So the government would say we take care of it but in fact not really. You have to have in mind that in uh in Tulus in uh in 2012 uh kids Jews Jewish kids were killed in the school. At that time there was only maybe 5,000 people demonstrating in the streets in Paris. In January uh 2015 uh five million people were demonstrating in the street because mostly journalists had been killed, right? Not Jews. And now after what happened uh in November 13, we sent the army to solve the problem. So when it does occur to Jews, a little bit of a different reaction. It's a reaction is much lower. Well, I'm glad that we could do our part in showing a little bit of brotherhood. This is for us very important. So, since the last I would say 15 months, many many American congregation and friends are came to Paris to visit us to help us. We raised money in New York City for security. Uh personally, my my son is living in New York, right? And he's member of the United Jewish Appeal there. And uh with the United Jewish appeal, they made a tremendous work to uh raise money for the security and so there is a very tight connection with the New York and American communities and we are very thankful for that. Very thankful for that. Thank you again for welcoming us. Okay. And uh this has been a very special experience and I thank you very very much. Okay. May I add a word? Sure. Uh just some history called das in this synagogue. Um, as I told you on Monday, um, uh, the the few days after the arrest of Captain Dfus, as I told you, uh, Captain Dus was arrested the day after Yamipura and a few days after and during Sukat, uh, Tehel was here and, uh, because of the arrest of Jus, he was very, very anxious. as a journalist in Paris. So he met the president of the congregation and the constitu that time was Rochel family who had already acquired some pieces of land in in Palestine and this is talking with them. He decided that there should be a a place in Palestine for Jews. And this synagogue is the nest of the idea of creating a state of Israel. The modern Zionist ideal. Yeah. Can be traced to this sanctuary, which is unbelievable. That's it. That's You're welcome. Merci. Merci. Thank you very very much. Uh it's JM in the AM as we continue here at 91.1 FM. 90.1 FM in the CAT skills, Rockland County at 91.9 on the FM dial. Around the world in the web, jmtheam.org and of course on the NSN app. There are two people who have been involved in this process from the very beginning. One was involved to the point where we were speaking on a regular basis. The other was involved from the very beginning, but we had never met until two weeks ago. Uh I refer to those of you who are uh to those of you who are familiar with this show and what's been happening over the last few weeks. We have uh we have pointed out that Sam Levy has been our uh gobetween our liaison with the office of the consist here in Paris, France to help us along through a very very um uh I wouldn't say difficult but a long process. And Sam, I welcome you back to JM in the AM. Thank you. Bonjour. Bonjour. Nice to see you. I am so glad we were able to arrange for you to be here and to celebrate with us. It is a wonderful honor to have you here. It's nice to be here. You are sitting next to somebody who's been involved from the very beginning, but we had never met till two weeks ago. And that is the president of the consist here in Paris, Joel Marge, who at the very beginning of this process was enthusiastically accepting enthusiastically accepting the the mission, the the uh the message that we are bringing from the United States to the Jews of Paris and that is if Jews are in a challenging situation, other Jews care. President Joel Marge. Bonjour. Welcome to JM in the A.M. Welcome. Shalom. Shalom. Shalom. I'm happy to to be with you in this synagogue of Paris. We are finally here. Yes, you are finally here. And for Hanuka, I speak in French. We have Sam Levy to take care of any of the translation problems. I would like to wish to the New York community a good wish of happy. [Music] I would like to thank you, you and all your staff and the people from Israel that you came and gave us this gift to come for Kanuka to to give such a good present for us. And this really shows the aroot in between us. No question about that. We are exactly 11 months after the attack of And the four families that lost their their near during the cashier just finished now a couple of days ago their 11 months. Some here, some in Israel, some in Tunisia, right? But they're all going to be here tonight. You succeeded to make a miracle for the first time tonight. They all be together. [Music] after we all were together here. Last time was January 11 with the president of France and the prime minister of Israel and the families right after the attacks. And tonight they will be the people lighting the four candle of Kanuka. Yeah. I was very emotional when you came to us with this project. It could I could not see how we could put this project together. And now when I see you and I see how the synagogue tonight, I can really feel how the community, the Jewish community is. will never stay on failure. Failure and that's what's going to happen tonight after one year of being in mourning. They are going to come tonight for the first time and to light the monora after crying with them a year ago together in this synagogue. They are going to light the monoa to do the party tonight. Tonight we celebrate. Yes. Wow. And I think this is a fight of the hashim and the Jews that it's always there that's going to come. We are here. We are here with a Jewish state here, but we are still here. Yes. In the United States, there is a very big community. In France, there is also a very big community. [Music] And I want to tell to all the Jewish American community how as a president of the consist in here and I received during the whole year a lot of American delegation to see all the support that you gave us. It's it's amazing. issue Islam is radical. A few years ago, people would would didn't want to understand that it was a new kind anti-semitism and the antis issue from radical [Music] Islam. And now people understand that the same people that started to attack Israel, to attack the Jews, now are starting to attack the whole world. and before November 13. And I hope that the light that we are lighting will be a light to show an aliiance for everybody against the this anti-semitism. Amen. Amen. And beside this concert that we are going to do between American, Israeli French here tonight. This really showed us the solidarity in between all the Jews around the world. And since I was a child, I knew that the American Jews were the big brother of all the the other Jews. And now I really see it as a [Music] reality. The problem we have now us in France that are a lot of Jews are leaving France, a lot are going to Israel. A lot go to the United States, but no American except us. We're the only ones. We're the only ones coming to France. So when you come to support us, to come and visit us, this really give us a boost. [Music] I still remember last year that Jack knew came here after the event and and pray MRA here in this synagogue. It was just amazing for us to see that one of the highest representative of the United State asked us to come to this synagogue to to do minra to pray in this synagogue. So you are like you he came to pray you came to to president ghee. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Happy Kanuka. Happy Kanuka. It's going to be all Jews in the world and all Jew in America. And you mentioned and you mentioned that uh that we are here to to show solidarity. When there's difficulties in Israel, I think the Israelis expect us to come. Yesterday as we were speaking to Jewish Parisians, they were shocked that we came. You came for us. You came to show brotherhood and solidarity for us. And just that we are able to do this for people who feel a little bit alone is a wonderful feeling. I thank you for being our partner in all this and I am sure that this solidarity will continue now in all different kind of project in the very near future. This is tonight is the fourth light of Kanuka. We will see where together we will light the fifth candle of Ranuka next year. Thank you, President Sam Levy. Thank you. You've been so amazing and you continue to be a phenomenal translator, but more importantly, a great friend. And I I mentioned to Sam and you could stay with me for a moment. I mentioned to you that um I have a note that Miriam Wallak handed me two months ago while I was in the middle of doing an interview. She had just gotten off the phone with you. And the note reads, and I wish I had it in front of me. I'll I'll see it later in my room. The note reads, "Just spoke to Sam Levy. He says, "This is going to be 100 times bigger than we ever thought." And look what has happened, right? I just I tell you I just arrived this morning and uh I just walked in in the synagogue and to see the synagogue that I know transformed. It was 100 time more that I was thinking when I was in the plane last night I say how the synagogue is going to look like it. It's just amazing and uh people really will I hope that people will have the chance to see it online to see how the synagogue is magnificent and uh cannot wait to see the show tonight. Yes. And we will have reviews later in this show about the show that will have already taken place. Meanwhile, we're speaking to you right before the big concert at La Victtoire at the great synagogue of Paris. Sam, thank you so much. Thank you. More coming up. This is JM in the AM. [Music] When God was glor [Music] floor. May your love [Music] Sure. CL you are you foolish the Lord. [Music] Royale. May your love Loch. [Music] King is We are going for [Music] We [Music] know the [Music] [Applause] [Music] Hello. Clown. [Music] We are going to [Music] We know [Music] your mother. Can you ask me who is [Music] May shif [Music] Filify shif. Fil. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] May be shif. Shify [Music] Shif Finally, I am glorifying. [Music] your God. You're [Music] That's Oh, of course, title track to Sigula. And this is America's one and only Jewish moments in the morning radio program heard on listener sponsored WFMU East Orange WFU Mount Hope Rocklin County at 91.9 on the FM dial. Broadcasting now from Paris, France, around the world in the web. JMn.org and of course on the NSN app. [Music] Shalom. [Music] Let me let [Music] Yes. Yes. [Music] Let me let [Music] Yes. Yes. [Music] Let me let me let me sugar. Let me [Music] JM in the A.M. when we first started speaking about a Jewish unity concert and a Jewish unity initiative for the Jews of Paris. We wondered who would be the most appropriate person to be at the center of that performance. And we said there is nobody who has touched the lives musically of everybody in the Jewish world from right to left and up and down like the legendary Yaram Gaon Yoram Goon. Shalom. Welcome to JM in the air. Thank you very much. What an honor to have you here. And we're speaking with Matan who's going to help us a little bit with the translation. I tell you what it is because I would like very much to say things that I I would like to be very specific and I want I want translators so everyone will understand me. Understood. You have played, you've played everywhere, every arena in the world, every major city there is, and you're such an amazing piece of the collective Jewish heart, in my opinion. What is it like for you to be here in the great synagogue of Paris, knowing that the entire theme of this Kanuka celebration is Jewish unity? Now, it's going to be in Hebrew. We're dealing all the time with terror in Israel and And from time to time you we hear that uh the terror in Europe and the US because of what happened in Israel and Palestine. We came here to Paris to uh show our respect fundamentalist These are Muslims that are hurting other religions, not just Jews. There are still people that are uh saying that what happened here in Paris is because what going on in back in Israel and Palestine. And shalom, we came here to Paris to show respect and uh to uh make them hopefully to understand that the terror that's going on in Europe has nothing to what's going on back in Israel. Palestinian the people from ISIS. Yeah, the people from ISIS. They don't even know where exactly uh Jerusalem, Jerusalem and other places in Israel. Yum yum yum yumst. We came here to stand with all the uh French people and especially the Paris uh people um that that maybe they'll understand exactly what's going on every day on daily basis in Israel. All right. As a result of Palestinian terror, Yam Goon is here. Uh one of the most influential people, if not the most musically in the Jewish world and in recent Jewish history. Well, it's welld deserved. That's for sure. What is the secret to your longevity? What is the secret that that my grandparents, my parents, my children that all of them are somehow touched by your music? You know, my privilege is that I, you know, my parasa my is my hobby. you know, everyone everyone that goes, you know, to work, I don't know if he likes it or not, but I'm earning my living from my hobby. I love to sing. I love to be in a theater, and this is a luck. I'm a lucky one. That's for sure. And we're very lucky to have you. Uh, tonight's program, did you give it a lot of thought what songs would be performed or it was obvious in some cases what had to be performed here? How did you prepare for tonight? I'm I'm going to sing Nomi Sheammer because she's, you know, she's the the queen the the queen of of the Israeli Israeli song. And I'm going to sing Uh we are competing now of course uh it's going to be something extra special and I'm so glad you're here means a tremendous amount to us and this keshair that's being formed tonight between the United States and Israel and of course Paris. I hope this bond lasts for a very long time. Thanks a lot. It was wonderful to be here thank you my thank you matan. Thank you. Yoramon JM in the AM. A very special broadcast as we are getting set for what's going to be a Wednesday evening performance here at the great synagogue of Paris. Everybody is uh encouraged. If you haven't seen the video yet, if you didn't see it live during yesterday's program, make sure to check it out at some point in the archives at nomseagle.com. [Music] Fore! Foreign! Foreign! [Music] Happy city. Oh, I have you know I have [Music] [Applause] [Music] sh [Music] [Applause] [Music] Fore Foreign speech. Foreign speech. Foreign speech. [Applause] [Music] What I have [Music] [Applause] [Music] done, you know, I sh [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] is all your creal. [Music] [Applause] Oh, [Music] we are [Music] Oh yeah. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] your I So [Applause] [Music] my [Music] [Applause] [Music] smile I know I So there are smile. [Music] [Applause] [Music] is all [Music] [Applause] [Music] Joal. Holy holy hallelujah. [Music] [Applause] Oh, no. [Music] Show me. I know. [Music] Oh, I [Applause] [Music] know. Let's go. That go. [Applause] [Music] sing. Heat. [Music] We've heard a lot about Avi Miller over the last few months, one of the young rising stars in Israel. In fact, tonight in my introduction, I'm going to talk about uh how appropriate it is that he's here because not only is he a young star from Israel, he's also a member of the IDF of Tahal, the Israel Defense Forces. Ai Miller, shalom. Welcome to JM in the AM. Shalom. Kanuka. Wow. Wow. Thank you. Tonight's going to be a very special night. You're part of it. You're actually going to start our musical presentation, which is wonderful. Uh I know Matan is here to to help translate. How do I start? Let me come up with a let me come up with a a question easy enough for everyone here uh to understand. What does it mean to you to be at a Jewish unity event knowing that in addition to performing and making everybody happy on this Kanuka? You are somebody who represents Medina is and what does that mean to you? Wow. It's a great honor to be here tonight uh especially after the events that uh were here uh the last uh month and uh it's a privilege to come and make everyone happy and to sing my songs uh for the Jewish community. Am I right that after you're going back to Am I right about that? Can you explain to our audience how meaningful that is to to even after you finish with your your service to Tahal? You're still going back often to do to be in reserve duty. The Lord [Music] is the tea. Well, I see it as a privilege to uh come and do it and help the uh young soldiers to go and change and relaxed uh whenever the need. Uh, Israel as you know is under a terror attacks daily basis. So uh this is our mission and it's something very important that we need to do. AI Miller is with us. He'll be part of the lineup on the uh concert of Jewish unity. How is the CD doing? How is your album doing? Ai Miller sings album. Well, I'm glad to hear it's doing well and I'm glad to hear people enjoy it. We love playing it and we wish you wish tonight and we wish you with your career Miller. Uh tonight I know that we're speaking to you Thursday morning but we're recording this segment on Wednesday night. Tonight Avi Miller is going to be singing one of the great songs of Jewish unity from the greatbach. I thank Avi Miller for joining us. It's a JM in AM Thursday morning. Post concert, we will be getting the uh report. We will be getting the um we will be getting the uh review so to speak of the concert coming up a little later on. This part we are recording um and this this we're recording on Wednesday night here in Paris. Uh a baby girl Feldstein has been uh has been named. We want to wish a mazle to Sharon and Michael Feldstein. Amuna Peril, Emma Pearl, named after my wonderful aunt, Aunt Pearl Seagull of Phoenix, Arizona. And I think that that's exactly what they're waiting for, a little baby girl to name after her. So we say Mazaltto, great to report, great news here at JM in the AM. And we are set to continue with more. A Miller wraps up this segment here at JM in the A.M. [Music] Oh my god. [Music] Oh my god. [Music] I'm [Music] sure he foreign. [Music] [Applause] [Music] I might [Music] get you shy. [Music] JM in the AM sitting here just before the concert for Jewish Unity. Our review of the event is coming up. Fear not, keep your radio where it is. If you missed the concert anyway, check out the archives in a.com. Uh Dorothy Benishu Katz is with us. This is the uh first vice president of the of the synagogue of the great synagogue of Paris, the grand synagogue of Lavictto, as we say. Yes, sir. Um, first of all, a pleasure to welcome you to this radio show. Thank you very much. Thank you for having us here. Thank you. We've turned one of your rooms into a studio. This room, I have to tell you, it's very interesting. This room is considered the the bride room. When we have a wedding, every Sunday the bride is waiting here with her family with the children in the for the cortage. And during the week, this room serve for the meeting of the all the um elected people from the consist. Wow. That's right. You are here now. We're in a very we're in a very important room. That's why this is a simka room. Yes. Because the bride's always here. That's right. What is it like to prepare for an event like this? You've had major events like this in the synagogue before. We we have very often big big events here because it's the biggest synagogue in France even I think in Europe and we are used to make very important uh concert or event also events which are not so happy than the one of tonight because tonight it's a concert and we have we are used to have all the sad uh things in life in the world Right. And Elan Limi, you remember the guy? Sure. We had also memories for um um how should I say to lose, right? To lose episode, right? And all the Well, I won't talk about sad things. There's There's sad things that go on here. There are happy things that go on. There's only Tonight is happy. And tonight is happy. And it's a very large crowd every single time, whether it's sad or happy. This is a historic building. historic sanctuary and it attracts the Jews of Paris to come and be part of it. It's a very interesting building because it's never closed since it was built. Even during the last the first war world war world war world war world war world war world war world war world war world war world war world world war right never closed and also during the second world war world which is so hard never closed never a real symbol of resilience exactly sir that's what I wanted to tell you it is amazing we said this in the beginning when we knew we'd be here that there is no better building that's symbolic of what we want to accomplish of Israel because it is one that has survived so much over the years after the Friday 13th of November which was the great atantas in Paris. On Saturday morning we came here and uh the police said that the synagogue should be closed and we opened it and there was people are making shabas that Saturday the day after if it made it through World War II it can make it through a terror attack on a Friday night. Yes, that's for sure. Uh Dorothy Benny Shukatz is is with us, first vice president of the great synagogue lavictar here in Paris. Um the synagogue looks magnificent. We are anticipating a beautiful event. What what were your thoughts when you first heard that people from outside of France wanted to come and do this for the people of France? Because a synagogue is the bite of everyone. So why shouldn't you come here? But what did you think of the whole idea that people would come with this message of unity that they would show their care and concern and just want to get this message across to the Jews of France? This is the the duty of the great synagogue of Paris. We love to receive people, foreign people from all the world everywhere and we're happy that you are here and we thank you to come here. I thank you very much and enjoy the evening. You're welcome. Dorothy Ben Shukatz, a vice president here at the great synagogue in Paris. Levicttoire and we are going to continue with more coming up right here at JM in the AM. Uh I am told that uh I I'm told if I stall for a minute we can get to Rabbi Goldwer and we can uh take care of that obligation which we will in just a moment. Thank you so much Madame President Vice President. Um, Rabbi Goldwir, Rabbi Udin, and those rabbitic authorities who are both behind the scenes and in front of the scenes here at JM and the AM have been so supportive, have been so remarkably um, encouraging when it comes to what has been kn been come to be known now as the Jewish unity initiative. They have just been incredible and I want to thank all of them for the encouragement. And I want to thank those rabbitic leaders who might not be able under normal circumstances to take on a project like this on their own but have encouraged us to do so and I thank them very very much. Rabbi David Goldw's words and Esther bas here is Rabbi David Goldwer with morning. Good morning. We learned that the mitzvah of Kaneka is near. As it says in the Talmud, one light each night for every household. Every night the families of Claw Israel gather around the Kaneka manura for the candle lighting. However, it is interesting to note that the shanorak also tells us that the manura should be kindled in the bases in the synagogue. Our commentaries ask what is the purpose of the additional lighting in the shul. Our sages tell us that in truth the mitzvah of lighting the minora is only complete when everyone joins with its sibar. We all connect with the community in promugating the miracle of Kaneka. In that way the midst of lighting the minor at home is much different than that which is done in the shul. Another interesting concept is that the fact is the synagogue is compared to a miniature basa miktod. There are many objects positioned in the shul that are similar to those in the basa mikdosh the holy temple. When we light the minor in the shul it is reminiscent of the manora that was lit in the basa mikdosh. So today when the Nakum seagull Jewish unity initiative connects minoras throughout the world from New York, London, Melbourne, Budapest, Hong Kong, Yalaiim, Paris, Zurich, Berlin, Warsaw, every conceivable country. It becomes one of the largest celebrations of Kaneka in Jewish unity around the globe. Moreover, this initiative has taken the observance of Torah mitzvah from within our home to a much greater level. It is extremely emotional to know that we are united today with our brothers and sisters in France. We share a deep kinship with you and your ordeal. All that you have gone through has affected us intensely. Zakar alishkah we remember all those who were attacked in terrorist acts in France and all who gave their life. They were quicker than eagles and stronger than lions to do the will of Hashem. We pray for the good and welfare of French jewelry and world jewelry. May the light of Kaneka and the minora bring peace in bisuros to good news to the entire world in the merit of this great demonstration of unity. May we soon see the gulos shalma the complete redemption in the building of the third and final basiktosh. Reml of Zlutchov once said, "If all of Israel without dissension were to pray only once in wholehearted devotion, the hour of Messiah's coming would be very near. Who knows if that hour is right now? I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our listeners throughout the entire world a freel kaneka a joyous and happy kaneka num avu. This has been Rabbi David Goldwaser bringing you morning jm in the am. I thanks Rabbi Goldwer. Um we this is our final segment or very close to our final segment pre-con. The rest of the show you'll hear postcon when this gentleman walked into our makeshift studio all of a sudden the whole place was a buzz. I'm referring of course to Ohad. And the reason there's such a smile in my voice when I referred to Ohad is because for the last three months he has been such an unbelievable he's always been a good friend but we have grown much closer. Uh he has encouraged us. He got us through a period of time where we didn't know if this concert could take place because of what happened here on November 13th. He has been somebody that's well he is somebody who's very well respected here in the Pisian Jewish community and somebody who wants to see us have great success tonight. Oh Kagurim Samuk welcome to JM in the AM. Well when a month and a half ago when I was here without you and I was just you know imagining how it'd be sitting together with you. You know what the experience is much better than than I had in my vision. You know, it's funny. It's the first time we're together in Paris after all this back and forth. Yeah. Usually I wake up together in the United States and you were here when Miriam was here. I was not, etc. And you were not here last time and I was. And I said this about an earlier guest. When I saw you today, I said the dream has finally become a reality. We are here together. I I don't know how we ever thought that this could work, but it looks like thousands of people want to be here tonight. Yes. It's it's it's a full house. It is a and it's even more full than full. I think they've given up at this point on trying to control the crowd which is going to be an interesting thing to begin with. And the lineup is spectacular. The message is so clear and what David Fadida and his crew have done with the shul. The shul is spectacular as you know. You told me the first time we ever spoke you said it's to tell you something this sh you know it exists so many years right and the constitu you know they run it very toughly and usually there are a lot of kot and and things going on the sh but they never in their life ever let anyone put a a a cable in this sh and what we did you did you know it's amazing and I think the crowd tonight when they walk they will walk in that shel They won't believe what they're seeing. It is magnificent to begin with. It is even more magnificent the way it looks right now. And I hope people will be heading to the website. They'll be watching it. They'll I hope you've seen all the pictures on our social media and all the different places where you could see what the synagogue here levited in and gotten some of the videos already from some of the rehearsals. The sound, as much as we worried about the sound, has been arranged in a way where it sounds spectacular for the sanctuary. Well, I'll tell you why. Because as you remember the we chose a very specific band and a very specific kind of classy without without yeah without drums and without any kind of instruments that can you know make the noise because it's a shul. So there's a lot of reverb going on and if you had drums then you'll hear a whole big balagan. So we chose that band specifically for to get the right sound and we're both the best from Israel. uh the best and really an amazing collection of artists who are here. Gerson Freshat with his symphonic orchestra. He's been working hard for weeks. Not all day, but for weeks. Yes. I mean, you know, I show up, right? You were just at a performance somewhere else in the world. I show up a half an hour before the concert. Okay. Everything is settled and I'm seeing he is he has to work. He has worked and I thank them for all the hard work because like I say, it was weeks and not just today, not just the last few days. Um, a lot has gone into this. Everybody involved has taken it very seriously. Right. The message is very simple. And you're from Europe originally, so you know what it's like to be in touch with people who are nervous. You know what it's like to be in touch with people who don't know what the future of their Jewish community is like. I'm not just speaking about Paris. I'm speaking about other areas as well. Exactly. And I think this is why the the message got through the Parisian people and they're really want and I mean they're coming by by the thousands and they want to come but we don't have any room. So I think we should do this tomorrow again. If you're available after the concert, you'll be on later in this show. Believe me, we we brought you here now because we have a feeling that everybody's going to be uh up very late tonight after this performance. I'll be here. I'll be here. If you're here, then we could talk more after the concert and I look forward to that because that that'll be a real review of what happened here tonight. Yamaha is so excited. I was so It was so special to me that he's taking it as to heart as he is. He's just he's like the rest of us. He's he's he's feeling it. I'll tell you why. He's from an an old generation. I mean, let's let's go way back to Muhammed Yum Yamipur. He was singing in the front line to soldiers and he he's very, you know, he's very tion and he's very idealistic about Israel and about Jews. And I think that's the reason he's taking it so personally because he's from the old days, you know, not the youngsters today, they don't really understand what fighting for Israel is and fighting to be a Jew and fighting, you know, for your country and for for for Judaism and be proud of it. Um, and I think that's why he's taking it so personally. Yeah, 100%. Well, oh, thank you. Thank you. This has been an amazing process. It is. And I I said it before, I hope for many, many more. You know, this is the first country. Um, we have more countries to go to. We have more country to goes to go. And by the way, look at the time. You see, 7:00 at night is my hours. So, anytime you want to interview me has to be 7 o'clock at night. You're complaining about when I bring you out early in the morning, huh? Exactly. Thank god I have David Fida on my side. He forces you to go to the radio show. I like that tonight and thank you for all your incredible help. Excuse me. One one last question. How's your French? My French is not as good as I would have liked it to have been tonight. But okay, so after after the concert, can I am I allowed to make fun of you? Of course. For all America. That's why I'm here. Okay, good. You're on. There he is. Oh, at JM in the AM. Data. [Music] Muslim mech. [Music] Shel Man, the heart Who's the heart [Music] of Musl. [Music] Muslim shoo. [Music] M shoo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo. 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Y [Music] shalom [Music] shalom. Hello Ko. It is [Music] okay. Stand [Music] up. We must be strong. [Music] I said [Music] shall Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Be great [Music] strong meak. We stand as we must be [Music] standing. Together we are strong. God say be [Music] strong. We will go on shalom. We are behind. [Music] Kazak Amenu Kazak Kazak. A very important message for us here in Paris. Yes, this is Mark Zamik sitting for Nakam Seagull. Matus will probably find this funnier than anybody else. Um we are it's Mark sitting with Jamie and Yoni as Miriam Manakim got called off called out to last second preparations to what has been an amazing concert. And um I think what it did do is it gives me the opportunity and I'm sure I speak on behalf of Yoni and Jamie as the staff members here. This has been such an amazing ride and the concert hasn't even started yet and it has been such an amazing ride and an honor and a privilege to be included in this um in this trip to Paris. Um although if you woke me up middle of the night on Friday night and asked me if I was in Paris this week, I would not swear in a stack of Bibles that I was. Um, we have not we have seen all the internals of Paris. We have seen the Jewish communities. We have yet to get to the Eiffel Tower, but that's all good because we are here on behalf of the Nakamagle network and celebrating Jewish unity. We are here to be unified with the Jewish community. And boy is it unified. Over 2,000 people expected to fill the great synagogue lavict in all its glory in a concert produced by David Fida. Um, and I am sure between now and uh when we sign off um late late in the evening and well warferred listeners when we sign off at 9:00 am Thursday morning there will be more than a few tears shed um by those of us here who have put in so much time and effort well worth it as we know. So as we close hour number two, you are tuned to America's one and only Jewish moments in the morning radio program heard on listener sponsor WFMUFM East Orange WFU Mand Hope Rockland County at 91.9 and around the world at jame and theam.org and this is the NHL single network. [Music] [Applause] Yes. [Music] [Applause] [Music] We [Music] made our heart. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Just moments ago, we were at the Let There Be Light, the concert of Jewish Unity. If you're tuned in to the third hour this morning of JM and the AM, you picked the right hour. That's for sure. Uh we have just completed an amazing production and presentation, a Kanuka celebration that took place right here just next door in the Grand Synagogue in the great synagogue sanctuary here in Paris. Uh we have wonderful reaction from a whole bunch of people that are with us including our United States delegation. But we're going to start with somebody who spends most of his time although the way he travels maybe he doesn't think he spends most of his time here in France and that is Sebastian Ben Sidon Kanuka Samanuka Sam. It's nice to have you here. Thanks a lot. What did you think of this evening? It was just great. Wonderful. V Hashem, I think that this whole concept, this whole idea that we brought to Paris that when Jews are feeling a little bit down, they need a little pickme up from their brothers and sisters around the world. I think this worked very well. Sure. That's what we was expecting to get support from Jews from other parts of the world. And getting the American Jewish community with us, it's very, very good. And it's a lot of people focus on where Jews in France where their next step will be. You help me for a minute focus on how amazing the present Jewish community is in Paris and in France in general and with all the difficulties how much pride there is in the Jewish community here. you have like uh people that they are really attached to their country here in France and uh you have also the other that they are looking to immigrate to Israel or to America but uh I will say the majority is people that they are attached to to their roots actually and tonight demonstrated that to me it seemed with the the mood the atmosphere there are a lot of very prideful people who loved getting together to celebrate Kanuka absolutely it's really wonderful uh You're you're everywhere. You're in Europe. You're in the United States. You meet Jews of all types from all different walks of life. Just give me a couple of sentences on what this was like to be together with everybody in this beautiful edifice in Paris. Actually, especially for me like traveling between Chicago, New York and and Paris, I was like uh feeling like with pride to be honest because I feel a little bit uh American and French and uh my heart is between the two countries. So, I was really really uh really energized. Yeah, absolutely. Even if I'm starting to lose my voice, but Well, a lot of a lot of great songs to sing along to tonight. Absolutely. We met through email. Mhm. And one of the first emails you sent back to me is that you want to make sure to be here tonight. Absolutely. Because you grabbed the concept and you did what so many people around the world have done. They've understood what our message is and I can't thank you enough for that. Thank you. You have a special guest with you. Could we bring him over, Mark? Can we bring him over? this. Tell our audience who's listening right now and they're tuned in Thursday morning when we play this in New York and New Jersey. Tell everybody who's sitting to your right. So my friend which is now sitting next to me is Elan Zawi from the band Adamama which is really really well known from the movie called Rabbi Jacob. The mad adventures of Rabbi Jacob. Everybody in my generation is jealous that I get to sit with him now. Absolutely. So I when I heard from you and about the the show I said I called Elan I said Elan I think you need to be with us. He was actually traveling for a concert yesterday. It was in uh in Luxembourg. There's a Jewish community in Luxembourg. There there is a little Jewish community but good Jewish. Did they enjoy the show? Yeah. Yeah. We we did just a concert in the only cashier restaurant. uh one friend built it and uh it's a very nice restaurant. We hit very well. We sing the of course right of course and after we did with my brother and with one of our musician good enough there's a kosher restaurant in Luxembourg. No that's true. One thing I want to mention it's actually Elan came uh a year ago exactly in uh in Chicago. We had the celebration of the 5 years anniversary of the market that I rent there called the Chicago French Market. It's already 5 years. It's already now six years this year and Elan came for we had the lighting with the Kabad the local Kabad and local rabbi and Elan came for it and he started to dance with the Rabbi Jacob dance and everybody was amazed they caught on to that yeah some of them but the other was not even Jews was say wow that's really great you know what is it about your dance that's so attractive to everybody I don't know it's a long story the story of this dance because it was a story I did with my group At this time it was already 40 years ago. Wow. And I met the big man that is Jeri, the director of the movie. And when he sees the dance, he say I think I will take it in in my movie because in the first mure of the of the film he it was they didn't know what he will do right for the beginning of the movie. Basically, maybe he will play violin what type of opening it would be. Yeah. Yes. He didn't know. And then when when they see the dance and they say that must be in the movie. Yeah. But I told you that what's most striking to us growing up is that when we're on the road to the airport and there's a traffic jam, everyone screams, "Why don't you just lift up the car?" Like the did in that movie. That's all. Anybody who's out there who knows about the mad adventures of Rabbi Jacob, I've already informed you that you have a cult following out there and you know it. I hope you enjoyed the evening. Of course. I I know very well because four years five years ago we we were were invited with my group to make yatm here with all my musician and we did that all the synagogue dance. So you're the president the rabbie rabbi chief rabbi was dancing and then I have a very special attraction with the synagogue and with the French community and they could see all your videos online adama right just look online and they could find their he has a DVD available as well but you know what I I think that when I will I supposed to come in uh in Chicago to to but it's February tell Sebastian it's going to be very cold that's good that's how we going to keep him like a young you know I must invite you to dance with I hope we can make it to Chicago. I hope if we made it to Paris, we might be able to make it to Chicago. And not many as many advanced trips and Sebastian. Thanks a lot. Pleasure to have you as a friendly. See you soon. Take care and Sebastian Benedon who is here in France and appreciates our Jewish unity initiative. And now we get to visit with people who take great pride. I said to President Joel of Vish University minutes minutes minutes after the performance ended tonight. I said to I am proud to be your student. You know that I credit Yeshiva University with almost everything in my career and I'm proud especially on a night like this to have you here with me. Well, I'm proud to be your student. Um, I will say this was so good that I'm looking forward Nakam to you doing this in North Korea. Um, in Sudan, in Sudan, there's so many places that could use this. And I know this was very simple for you to pull off. Um, the truth is it was wonderful. I also want to say it's obviously a lowbudget operation cuz I've been here for 18 hours and I haven't been given a glass of water. Um, but it was it was it I'm blaming our chairman for that. You know, that's why we have a chairman to blame things on. Yeah. Tell me when I get to do that. We ran out of budget. That was it. I just do want to This was an extraordinary evening and it's an extraordinary evening. We shouldn't have to do extraordinary evenings to feel a sense of aut to feel a sense of of oneness. And I think we all have a responsibility to figure out how to make our own music um and how to make that music together. Um and of course that's what I think the purpose of education is and certainly education at yeshiva university. Um but I think for all of us in the world I had students come up to me tonight students come up to me tonight and and so we are one people Israel and you've made that point so eloquently with a lot of help from your chairman Mr. Robert Ben Ramon I've just been given a glass of water as far as we go. That's as far as we go. I I we walked into your office. I said this before. I'm going to say it again. We walked into your office and I'm sure you've been approached by thousands of projects to be chairman and we mentioned two things. We mentioned Jewish unity and how we felt because of where it's happening it's perfect for you. After all, it's France and you spoke beautifully in French tonight. I tried. And then we mentioned Yaram Goon and you agreed there's nobody who can be the Jewish people around the world like Yaram Goon. Absolutely. I hope we met your expectations. Uh I tell you first of all beside the people uh when Simon and I came and we saw yesterday that synagogue we said it is beautiful. However we visit another synagogue across the street. It was magnificent. The stained glass and everything. But tonight you turned this room to something out of this world. You could see the shina on the room. the light was all over the atmosphere you created and yesterday I mentioned you know when you talk about uh you know beauty the beauty the light the atmosphere plus all the people that you could see they were so appre appreciative and everybody couldn't say enough thank you they they really felt unity and as I mentioned you know we are all like big light as all the eight candles will be together. We're are much more stronger and I believe that every light probably present another country in the world. But what's basic, we're all Jews. If this guy eats quason every morning, I eat a bagel every morning. But the dening is the same dvening. It was so beautiful. Maybe the eight lights is seven continents and one world. Maybe that's what it is. Or maybe Hashem is one watching the seven. Seven continents. Maybe it's a minion with two Jews having left. That's President Joel alluding to those who left early tonight to go have dinner. I guess dinner. Surprisingly enough, most of them really my gut feeling that I I felt in the room, they do not want to leave France, right? Like the Arab country, like Syria, like Morocco, like Tunis, they are really loving this country. They want to stay here. And you know yesterday we were in the Jewish quarter and we made this point now many times in the last two days. There people talk about the the fact that we and others visit Israel every time there's even the smallest problem which that should continue. They couldn't believe here that somebody would come to bring in like you're coming here to see us. They couldn't believe it. They couldn't believe they were getting the same treatment as we give our brothers and sisters in Israel when there's difficult times. But there's another message um that's perhaps unique to us, which is that we get to be strong and proud citizens of Laance at the same time as being Jews because our Jewishness doesn't know boundaries. Someone once asked one of my revered teachers, Rabbi Israel Miller of Blessed Memory, uh if he's ever troubled by dual loyalty and he said, "Not at all." He said, "I love my mother and I love my wife." And I think Jews Jews have an ability to do that. You certainly do. Yes. I thank you both very very much. I thank you for the honor and I want to tell you really is to you. By all means, you created something so special tonight. And I hope the entire world will follow up next time. Maybe the Jews from Holland, from England, from all over and you can start it as tradition. Who knows? And we should be strong together and super light. Amen. I think you and Miriam and your entire staff really were heroes in this because the ulterior motive was the Akus of the Jewish people and that's really special. Now, does anybody know if there's a restaurant? Yes. Yeah. I was going to say without without food, that was our goal. Thank you. Thank you, gentlemen. And I I I take this opportunity to thank the entire staff, everybody. And I won't single out those who are here because everybody, so many people have worked so hard behind the scenes to make this happen. And our families have not seen us during the holiday of Kanuka yet. That's going to change tomorrow night. And they were watching with great pride as all this was going on. and I haven't even contacted them yet since the concert ended because we walked straight in here to conduct these conversations. So, a lot of people have uh have sacrificed a lot of um a lot of time and effort to be part of this some Phil Goldfeder who was I wish I could replay the conversation we had on the air when I first introduced you as somebody part of our United States delegation. You were brilliant that day and I thank you for being here tonight and I know that uh you were with Mr. visuals gate who clearly through his statement that we read on the air and if I had that in front of me right now I would read it again clearly uh he has taken as a Parisian and somebody who spends the bulk of his time in the United States great pride in what happened here tonight you felt it was important as a local member of government to join us and display something internationally what did you think of this evening I have never been prouder to be a part of the Jewish community like I felt tonight that just the pride of unity of people from all over the world, literally all over the world, coming together for a very simple message and it was a I took a point of personal pride because every single day we try and and keep unity in our own little communities. That's not easy, right? And and trust me, as an elected official, it's it's near impossible. And what was accomplished tonight was truly truly amazing. And I'm I was honored to just be a part of it in a tiny small way. And uh and and credit to you and your team for for making it happen so successfully. One of the moments that I'll never forget in this whole process is you walked over to us at the oh dinner. We were literally on the way to Paris. We went straight from that dinner to the airport and the first thing out of your mouth was I want to come join you. And I'm like whoa wait a second. You think this is important enough especially with your you know local priorities is and you said yeah for one day I want to be part of a delegation that's doing this and that's expressing this message to the world. You didn't just express this message to Paris. This has made an international impression and I thank you for being part of it. It's an honor. This is what we strive to do every single day in New York State, all over the all over the country. We try to do things like this every single day and again the second I heard I was eager to to join. I obviously hadn't talked to my wife yet. Um but uh I was eager to join and see to be going around and it has proven to it was it was the right decision. It was one of the the best decisions I've ever made. Uh I look forward to the next time we can all get get together and make a continued keshmatashem. And for those anxious to see you in assembly district number 23 23 I think Thursday they'll see you. Right. Thursday I'll be back today. They will see very soon I will be back doing the people's work. Exactly. So thank you. Thank you assembly. Thank you so much. A pleasure. All right. Can I have one minute for a quick song and then we'll continue more coming up. We have special guests in our studio here. in Lectto in the great synagogue of Paris after an amazing Jewish unity initiative event starring Yaram Gaon and the incredible roster of personnel wonderful Jewish music people that made this uh made this city shine tonight. This is JM in the A.M. [Music] This sh the [Music] sh is a He might be a more sham. [Music] is a sh [Music] [Applause] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] to be [Music] shift. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] [Applause] Heat. Yeah. Heat. [Music] [Applause] celebrating Kanuka in Paris JM in the AM after the big event. Sam Levy, what did you tell us months ago? You said it would be a hundred times bigger than we thought. And tonight you told me it was a thousand times bigger than we thought. Barashem Sam and I had a discussion about two weeks ago whether the shul needs the lighting that it had tonight. Tonight he agreed with me that the lighting made it look spectacular. Uh Dr. Joe Rosada who has joined us on missions before the other parts of the world. He is from West Orange, New Jersey and part of our United States delegation. Rabbi Shbat who is the assistant rabbi of a congregation of Sakam Jacob and David it seems when we travel you never know when Rabbi Shbat's going to pop up but he is here at the insistence of great people like Simon Jacob and Robert Ben Ramon and Etan is here and remind me of Etan's last name please what is it Elbaziz Albaziz who we know from West as well for sure but he's originally from here from Paris did he take great pride tonight or what he did he was he was tearing definitely definitely tearing So, Dr. Rosado, what do you think? First, I want to tell you that there are 25,000 Jews in Iran. So, your next the next thing we got to go to Iran. I just want to make sure if I go, will you join me? It's a little sticky, huh? A little sticky situation for you to join. Possible I will do that. I just want to make sure that you know, but me, I should go. I just want you to know there are 25 passengers there waiting for Nakam Seagull to do this. If I was in Iran and did a concert like this, would mama watch from the house? Would she watch? 100. She would definitely mama zade, Lorie, everybody will be. Happy Kanuka to all of them. Happy Kanuka to all. What did you think of tonight? It was literally amazing. You know, Yseph had a dream. We're talking about Ysef this week and all that stuff and with the you know, like he had to go through struggles to get to to bring his whole family together and it's a unity. And I feel that that's the same way. It's like it's not it's coincidence that you know with all the partial now this week last week and it's all about Ysephic and you have to think about that you that the unity that you brought into this Fran you know from French people France in France in Israel and America together it's the same thing that honestly you think about it Yseph had to go through all this stuff to bring Yakov and all his family into unity together. Simon join us please please bring a chair up here and join us. I feel like you know that's uh that that was you. I'm I'm comparing you to Yoseph Sadik. really. Wow. So amazing. Really and and you understand like I'm looking around the room amazed amazed by the people. So many people are crying. So many people are touched. So people are telling me, "Oh, are we doing this again next week?" Right? Somebody come over to you and say, "Can we do this again? Do this again." Yeah. So So you have definitely put an put something some something in their hearts of of of Paris. You know the uh Rabbi Shbat I keep emphasizing that this has made an international impression. The event is wonderful but this whole campaign to simplicitly simplistically state that when Jews are in pain their brothers and sisters care. It has made an international imp the press was like they were amazed by all this like what that's the message that's what we should be promoting. I said yes that is exactly what you should be promoting. As I as I said to you um you know it sounds like just a simple message but it's so so important and we're lighting the Kaneka candles in the beginning of para Rashi famously writes that the flames all went towards the middle flame and here we all came from different places for one concept and one concept alone and that is we're all serving a kadosh and we all want to make sure that everyone together is able to have that feeling of and unity. You know, there are people who are waiting online just to say thank you to you afterwards. They will never see you again maybe and who knows if they'll ever meet you again, but they have such the tears in their eyes and they realize that they are not alone. Really was by the way that reminds me uh you an American delegation all of us I believe are leaving at some point tomorrow. We have so many invitations to embassies and offices and meet Robert. We could sit here through next week with all the invitations we got tonight that we should come visit. But unfortunately, that's going to have to Sebastian, that'll wait till next trip, right? Next trip, we'll do the tour. We'll do the tour and go around to all the different offices and all the different uh uh Israeli offices that are here. All around the city. All around the city. But it's so important that some of us are here for 25 hours, literally. I know. We landed today and we're leaving tomorrow morning and we and we and we didn't even get to go with the restaurants. I can't believe it. Don't worry. The night's still young. The night is still young. We had shuarma in Paris. We're going to have schwarma at 2 o'clock in the morning. What do you think we had yesterday? Falafel in the middle of Paris. Simon Jacob, who is really going to resent what I'm about to say, but I'm going to say it anyway. When we introduced this concept to you that our initiative has to go beyond New York, New Jersey, and Israel. And of course, you know that the first major step was last year in Houston when we when we introduced this to you. We introduced it to you as a go get up and go initiative that if we feel the need Seagull and his staff feels the need to get up and express something to people somewhere else. You said get up and go. And that's why I say and I told everybody you're number one on this list. You're the first person to encourage us to do this. And I can't thank you enough. It I I actually didn't sit down on the ground level. I went up into the balconies. And the reason I went there, there were three balconies and I and I was climbing up and down into the balconies and a few people know that I have a bum hip at the moment. But um it was spectacular. It was totally awesome. I wanted to be up there with the people. I wanted to be able to see the people's faces. They were cheering. I was crying. It was like unbelievable. I could barely I could barely get uh get through. I was trying to sing a tikva and and with all the people around me it was just unbelievably beautiful to watch. There were so many people. The shul which is enormous was packed and the standing room. There's so much standing room in in the hallways and in the sides to the to the and nobody seemed to mind that they were standing there and everybody was standing and singing and dancing and it was just it was beautiful. It was an amazing amazing experience. So that was that was really special especially to do this in Paris, especially to do this on Hanuka. Um Charlie Harrari gave a little Drashan Hanuka and he talked about why in the world don't we celebrate Hanuka with swords? Why do we celebrate with lights? This was a little tiny little deal. Big military victory. Was it the military victory was went on and on and and we won and it was huge and the and and the manora was was 8 days. So um what was the big deal with the minora? And his his comment was that that's not how Jews celebrate. We don't celebrate with swords. We celebrate with light. Yeah. And giving light to people. And this this was absolutely the the definitive um use of that light. I want to thank my friends from West Orange, New Jersey. Rabbi Shbat Simon. Wow. I am really really blessed to be around these people from West. They're unbelievable. I've told you that a million times. Unbelievable. Dr. Joe Rosada, stay here. Please stay here and until we until we uh until we end if you can. Uh oh is here. Wow. I introduced Ohad and said uh wow you were amazing. Thank you. Thank you very much. David Fida is here. David Fida is sitting next to Ohad. Hey people. People want to know why the synagogue looked as spectacular as it did tonight. It is because of David Fadida and his crew that turned this synagogue into one of the most remarkable places to present a concert. Uh I can't thank both of you enough. If I said on stage that you were there from the very beginning, oh, from maybe even before, David, you were there from the very beginning knowing that this was something extra special. You understood what was going on in Europe. You understood the type of message that was needed here. And we didn't even have the major attack of November 13th at that point. You understood it just within the context of the year. And by the way, I remember your phone call. I was in America that Mo Shabas, you called me and said, "Are we cancelling?" And I told you, "No, the Jews in Europe, they will want to come to a show." Correct. Because they feel they need to show the world that they're strong and that's why you remember that. I remember and everybody and you were skeptic. A skeptic until that point. The entire Shabbat and after Shabbat we were assuming it would be cancelled and then you told us no, we move forward alai and the Jews of Paris are going to persevere. Exactly. And and you saw what happened. I mean I've been to Paris many many times. I never saw something like that like tonight. That was really something unreal. It was incredible. And just before we move on with more of this discussion, I want to thank somebody who has become a very, very fast friend of ours. Rav Sabag, who is the rabbi of Lavakar, the rabbi of the great synagogue. Thank you, Rav Sabag. Ka to you, Rav Sabag. Ka to you, David Fadida. Shalom. Shalom. Shalom to you, Mr. Make fun of my American accent. We're in Paris or on even ground. Um, you were the only name not mentioned from the stage tonight that should have been mentioned. We mentioned Ghanon Ftat and the Incredible Orchestra and of course you're behind that and all these incredible stars. You're behind them. Uh, but you deserve to be mentioned there and of course here. It was a production that is simply remarkable. Israeli television will have it on the air, right? They will show it on Israeli television. It's channel 20. Yes, on channel 20. And we know I know just from my sources how many people were watching this live and how many people are commenting from different countries. You know how many people sent me emails that they're looking at comments on the internet from Brazil and from Europe and the United States and Israel, all these different places. It's just incredible. So a big thank you to everybody who covered it and carried it and took pride in carrying it. And you said to me early on if it's about aut Yes. If it's about Jewish unity and we're sincere about it, this is going to work. And it worked. Concert Robin Square singers religious. The singers secular. Yeah. the no politic only music 100,000 people in in Robin Square. This was after the kidnapping. Yes. And and after you call toad and to me to make like this in in Paris and you said me you tell me I said yes. [Music] religious. [Laughter] Ladies and gentlemen, I think he wants to hire you permanently now. Is he making fun of me or is he serious? Listen, we grew up on you. Don't forget. It's like from the the old H concert. It's like for me as a kid, you know, when I just started, I I remember ladies and gentlemen, I remember that and the first time my first H show many years ago when you invited me on stage, that was a dream come true. Ga tell me I don't need money. I don't need anything. Only like Okay, gentlemen. Thank you. A dream come true. Yeah. And your French is very good, isn't it? Good. The two words I said tonight work pretty well. They work pretty well. I thank you. It's good to Oh, David Fida. This is JM in the A.M. [Music] The scene was set back when a group of fearless men stood up for their beliefs and risked their lives. They acted with one voice and firmly made a choice. This nation being sure that it survived. Their prayers were answered each day. Their minds fixed on their destination. With victory they made their way. No longer to pride. At last they arrive to a miracle lasting for all generations. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. Light up the night. The candles burning bright on the festival of lights here on Khan. Our nation as a whole can reach a common goal with the fire in our souls. The light of Hanukkah. [Music] We face a daunting task. One that we cannot mask. A danger just as real as it was then. Let's stand with open eyes to hear our brother's cries. And courage now is needed once again. Let's carry our banner with pride for this freedom. How long we have waited with the word of the Torah our God. If we stand as one, it can be undone. Just think of the wonders that can be created. 2 3 4 5 6 7 of the night. The candles burning bright on the festival of lights. Here go. We answer to one day. Our heritage is the power of the flame. [Music] Light up the night. The candle burning bright on the festival of light. Here. Our nation has all. Our nation as a whole can reach a common goal. can reach a common goal. With the fire in our souls, the fire in our soul. The light of Hanukkah. D. Light up the night. The candles burning bright. On the festival of lights here. Our nation as a whole can reach a common goal. With the fire in our soul. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 light up the night. JM in the A.M. post concert. We have two of the stars of tonight. David Fida. Tell surprise for you. I have surprise for you. And wants to make something for you. All my We love who Allah. [Music] Thank you. Good night. After 12 hours rehears and they're still good, huh? It's Gishon Friedat. Join me. Please give Gishon Fat a microphone. Please. Garishan Friesat led an incredible symphonic orchestra here tonight. A pleasure to speak to you after a very long day, after a very long week and for you what was really a long few weeks preparing for tonight's event. Thank you. This was an experience once of a lifetime just walking in and seeing the shul and till you understand what you're doing and what you're seeing and then this was just I'm I'm speechless. Had you been in here before or not? No, this was your first time. This is my first time. There is something about that shul in general and then the way it was dressed up tonight made it even more modern and spectacular. It was just an incredible venue. You've done a lot of shows. There's a lot of unique shows out there. This one I think was something this is something that will take me a while to uh you know I I can't I I'm I'm speechless. This was this was just you know it seemed to us by the way that the orchestra worked flawlessly today. Well there was a lot of a lot of work put into we chose musicians you know one one at a time. We actually brought in one of the string guys from London who's going to run the string section and I had uh my flute player A Ramy Bash, my co-orker from Israel come in to lead that side of the band. I know he looked familiar and uh putting it all together and we we rehearsed in Israel with local musicians from there for the for that and then yesterday and today and uh was there a moment was it Kalamulo was it Hatikva? Was it Mosur? Was there a moment for you that symbolized I actually felt Madua oh Madua? Yeah, that's what that's where I felt where I was having a hard time playing because it was I was looking at the people and with the lighting and the screens and it was just unbelievable. Thank you and happy Kanuka. Thank you. Happy Kanuka. All right, more coming up. You are listening to JM in the AM. We are uh postcon we have delivered a very important message through these radio programs and through the event that so many of you watched online and that is that if Jewish communities around the world anywhere are in a challenging situation we as Jews will respond. We will show care and concern. Here is Oh, with that song at JM in the A.M. [Music] Hashem mad. [Music] for [Music] ma mu. for [Music] Lord see [Music] your name know I know We do [Music] an I know We [Music] do [Music] ma mu. [Music] The she know [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Adore [Music] More forget. We What do [Music] I do? [Music] Starship. [Music] I [Music] [Applause] [Music] sh a [Music] Hash do my I [Music] may come Oh my shore. [Music] There he is. It was one of the songs of the night. That's for sure. It's oh with Madua here at JM in the AM. I've said this more than once over the last couple of days and really over the last couple of weeks. Uh the person who was the first person to not only embrace this idea but help us tremendously in speaking to the consist and dealing with Paris France Sam Levy. Sam everybody should go buy snackets today because you sacrificed a day to be here with us. Oh, go ahead. Thank you very much. You know I have a dual citizenship. I'm French and I'm American and today I'm proud. I'm proud to be French and I'm proud to be American for this night. It was just magnificent. It was I think an historical night and people will remember this forever here and everywhere in the world and to see even the families of coming to you coming to us and thanking us the me the message went through and I think that was important for all of us and the Ardut was here the AK was here thank you for all your help God bless you everybody say with a bag of snackheads today please I'mging you Mark Zamik, Miriam Malwallik, I'll thank you and I'll thank uh the team here in uh Paris including Jamie Turkel and Yonyi Pollock. I thank I I we can't go through the whole network. The network, thank God, has become so large. But can we thank you? We got to thank Matthysse Wine Guest. Can we thank you? I got to thank Eolf Seagull. Am I going to do this? There are a lot of other people that we have. A lot of people thanked him before, by the way. They did. They did. Don't I get to do it? Don't I get to have the last word? Oh, it's your show. Sorry. Coming up today, you do have the last word at 10:30. Coming up today on uh jmnam.org and on the NSN app, a full day of great original programming. Charlie Harrari will be coming up next and spin class with Bill O'Reilly of the November team, a guest of Michael Franken. Also speak with Dr. Israel Singer. And more great programming including Allison Joseph's Drew in the City. That's life with Miriam Malwallik all about this trip. Uh 11 o'clock someone's gonna be sitting in for me during the live lunch. I pray because I'll be in the air. Um this has been a long process. Maybe only Sam can sympathize with us because he's been there from day one. Uh it's been a long process and how this dream came true, I'm not quite sure, but it came true and a lot of hard work went into it. As you heard, I think we've gotten to almost every team member, not just associated with us and our network, but those who were really helpful. Um, I'll take this opportunity to thank Yi Brisman. It was his idea to do the concert in this beautiful great synagogue. Absolutely. I want to thank Aaron Titleb and Israel Lamb who had their support behind this early on and and at one point we thought they might actually be here with us, but they weren't able to and uh it's made an international impression and what more could you ask for? Um, people around the world are embracing this concept and by the reaction of people who were in this shul tonight and maybe there were close to 3,000 people in this sh tonight. That's what Sam had mentioned to me. Uh, it's obvious that they've embraced this concept and are very proud of what we did here this evening. It's also a unique opportunity to have the time on the air to spend weeks talking about this because um we have a unique forum, a forum that's uh that's incredibly personal for so many people. Everyone who listens in thinks we're speaking directly to them and only to them, which is the way radio is. And we had time. We had time as as little time as we had. We had time nonetheless to pound, as the kids would say these days, to pound this concept away and to really get everybody on board with our simple declaration. So Mark Zamik and Miriam Malwallik, I turn the floor over to you for the last couple of minutes. I'm out of things to say. I'm already starting to think about what to ask regarding world events on Friday morning's show. It's a bad moment when and bad for business when you stop coming up with things to say. You know that, right? I say I'm speechless very often. And I hardly mean it, but this time I just think I've hit the time when Yeah. Mark, I found myself um moving around trying to take pictures and at one point I'm conscious of blocking the people behind me. So I sat down on the floor about three rows behind and no at one point it was funny because um Claudine you were on camera people are texting you, right? Oh yeah, but at one point Claudine I didn't realize and why even she was telling me she was in a panic because Oh for his Bowie Kala song which was really apppropo that was great walked up the aisle in which I was sitting and she like Claudine like grabbed me by the neck right like 30 seconds about to trip on you exactly and I don't know why. Yeah. Well meanwhile as soon as we saw oh coming down I turned to Jamie I'm like you don't think Mark's still sitting on the floor do you? I was close I was there I was there. Um, but I will say, um, and it wasn't that song, ironically, because of Bowie Kala, it was the next song that I cried. So, it really was just such an inspirational, um, I mean, just it I'm going to post pictures. I mean, I took 400 pictures during the concert. The It's a breathtaking room. And you were right about the lights. The lights just it's I mean, and and your view, you didn't have the best seat, right? Cuz you're so close to the actor. Poor guy. didn't have the best seat. Unbelievable. Um, but just and I was also it was great that you and and certainly Miriam, you know, got to sit there and enjoy it with the rest of the audience. Um, it really was just the reason why you have no words is because there are no words. Well, that thud in the background was quite dramatic, but I think there'll be a lot of that as they take the shard, right? I was going to say they'll probably clean up before we do knowing these absolutely will. But I will take this moment on behalf of our audience and everyone who was able to participate in this and on behalf of our team to thank you for being our leader, for having the vision and being the person that we can all stand behind. And I mean that both literally and figuratively. Thank you everybody. Thank you. This will be talked about for a long time. Great way to spend a vacation. I said to you early this morning, yeah, I felt I had to pull you aside and just express what kind of sacrifice you make for us. Some people know it. I know it better than anybody. Thank you, Mark. It's all good. Alan, our brothers and sisters in Israel, and in this case, we mean the entire people of Israel. We are with you. This is America's one and only Jewish moments in the morning radio program. heard on listener sponsored WFMU East Orange WFU Mount Hope Rocklin County at 91.9 on the FM dial broadcasting live room from the Son the Simra room in La Victtoir in the great synagogue of Paris and around the world in the web jmnam.org oorgg and on the NSN app and we should play the appropriate song to wrap up which is what we always do every single day and that is of course the hatikva. Thank you everybody. It's been an amazing experience. Thank you Paris for welcoming us the way you did. We were wondering what the welcome would be like and it was remarkable. Thank you. Thank you. Tomorrow, believe it or not, back in studio in Jersey City, Malcolm Homeline in the weekly update and a whole bunch of other things that we do on a Friday morning broadcast at JM in the AM. To all of our families, thank you. And to Stacy Seagull, as I've said on more than one occasion, it is all because of you. Tomorrow, we're back starting at 6 a.m. Enjoy your Thursday. Happy. Till then reminding you remember the past, live the present and trust the future. [Music]