We open with a joke in Jerusalem, then face the subject of Israel and Palestine. Next, to lighten things up, we ask what it means to be a Jewish American when fascists occupy the U.S. government. And finally, we close with a song in Bloomfield and a dance in East Berlin.

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Music heard in this episode includes “Yiddishe Charleston” by Nathan Glatz and His Orchestra and “Charleston” by the Golden Gate Orchestra. You also heard versions of “Rock of Ages” or “Ma’oz Tzur” by Josef Keller and Alon Marcus; as well as “Jewish Sorrow” by Danielyan Ashot Makichevich; “Lament for Jerusalem” by David Hollandsworth; “Forward Thinking” by Tim Brown; “Dark Ages” by Bjorn Lynne; “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” recorded by Mike Fielding; "Hava Nagila Sly Violin" by Musical Production, “Sholom Aleichem Rhapsodies” and “The Edge of Hearing” by David Ezra Okonsar; and “City at Night” by Matthew James Heathcote; licensed from the Pond5 media collection.

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