Mother's Boy - with Howard Jacobson
Unholy: Two Jews on the News
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The Importance of Humor in the Diaspora
I sometimes do think that Israeli Jews are a little quick to write off the Jewish diaspora experience my books were not for a long long time read in Israel they didn't want to know. I don't doubt now that many in Israeli who's just heard what I've just said about Woody Allen James Joyce the Schlemel in me would think but we've done Schlemels but the thing is you've neverdone Schlemels. Even no matter how successful and powerful and confident a country you are so is the part of you that can laugh at yourself that finds yourself absurd, says Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. We have acquired our cleverness and our sense of humor
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