What event?

You know, Jews in New York, LA, and America all over come to Israel at that time.

This is 1984.

And...

if you're like someone in the diaspora, a proud Jewish father or grandfather or mother or grandmother, you might arrange a trip for your family where you hire a tour guide.

Ours was named Shikey Drenitzky.

And he will drive you around in like a beat to crap Mercedes or something.

What are some of the things that you really wanted to do in a post-October 7th sense?

40 years ago, what were you here for 40 years ago? What event?

You know, Jews in New York, LA and America all over come to Israel at that time, this is 1984. if you're like someone in the diaspora, a proud Jewish father or grandfather or mother or grandmother, you might arrange a trip for your family where you hire a tour guide.

Ours was named Shikey Drenitzky.

And he will drive you around in like a beat to crap Mercedes or something.

And you drive to Sfat and all the- Masada.

Masada.

A lot.

What are some of the things that you really wanted to do in a post-October 7th sense?

I wanna get to your career, yeah.

But just to, this moment, we were backstage at that event at the 92nd Street Y, just a kinda meant-to-be, crazy kismet moment.

Rabbi Steve Leder I had met before.

He wrote a book about grieving, which is a beautiful book, and I had been in a book club to discuss his new book that was organized by Aaron Kaplan, a 500-pound gorilla producer in LA.

He's produced so many TV shows, and including the one that my wife and I created together about my parents living next door to me, living next door to my brother, called 9JKL, about the three apartments, which he produced.

And we ca-...

Rabbi Steve Leder takes it upon himself after I remind him of that book club with Aaron Kaplan to call Aaron and FaceTime him.

Shout out to Dana.

Interesting question.

Because I thought that the pacing, it was, like, my only, like, little thing was at the end it was, like, so much was happening at the very end that I was like, "Oh, my God, like, where are we going? What..." But then I imagined that if it was a series and it was kind of like a s- little bit of a slower burn-

Yeah, he's very, he comes off like he's a little thirsty.

Anyway, she says, um- She says, "I know, I..." You know, we were connected with this very connected Jew in London named Gadi, and he talked to, uh, a few people in New York.

One of them was your brother, and your brother says to us, "Hey, you should use my brother in the thing."

Right

...

even though we are conveying the image of a strong leader who takes action to protect his community, we're also saying he has awareness about that, and when it's right to use that force and when it's not.

And then in the context of that quote you shared, I believe from R- Rabbi Hillel, where I say, "In a place where there is no man, be the man," I just wanna say, for all the incredible examples I could be using of great Jewish men and women who were that, in the context of the Bondi Beach massacre-The man who stood up was a Muslim, and we have to...

I just, that video, I, I've watched it 25 times by now, of Ahmed Al-Ahmed, a 43-year-old Sydney fruit shop owner somehow magically coming through those cars and taking that gun away, and I'm sure saving some number of lives just by doing that, is as good an example as I have from recent days-

[laughs]

But...

A- and I, and I don't, I don't have a great answer because I do think it is, it is a, it is a, a, it's a problem.