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Episode Summary

Sunday October 6 listener Zoom!! Go to askajew.substack.com for details. ------- Shana Tova from the bomb shelter! Just kidding, the IDF said we can go out, plus, after an hour we finished folding laundry and drinking a bottle of whiskey, and we were bored. This episode was recorded before Iran launched a ballistic missile attack at our faces, so if we sound a little too cheerful and irreverent....well, I guess that's on brand. In this one we talk about offing auestere religious scholar Hassan Nasrallah, how George Washington once wrote a nice letter to the Jews and we're still talking about it, and a listener has an R-rated question about Auschwitz....go to Substack for pics and links.

Episode Notes

Sunday October 6 listener Zoom!! Go to askajew.substack.com for details.

Shana Tova from the bomb shelter! Just kidding, the IDF said we can go out, plus, after an hour we finished folding laundry and drinking a bottle of whiskey, and we were bored. This episode was recorded before Iran launched a ballistic missile attack at our faces, so if we sound a little too cheerful and irreverent....well, I guess that's on brand. Pics and links here on substack. 

In this one:

• Who’s less hot, JD Vance or Tim Walz?
• An update on Nicole Kidman’s wigs on The Perfect Couple
• Our low expectations from celebrities these days
• George Washington wrote a nice letter once to Jews an we’re still talking about it
• A distressed hostage back from Hamas captivity, and Noa Argamani
• El Al to people trying to get flight tickets to Israel: Don’t.
• What kind of Orthodox is this?
• Is Austria’s far right leader hot? AAJ investigates
• An on-an-off relationship with G_d
• We may have made a big mistake offing that austere religious scholar Hassan Nasrallah
• Our friend Eli Lake about the importance of winning, in The Free Press
• A Sephora for Beirut
• Why do Orthodox women always do this for a living?
• And a listener has an R-rated Auschwitz related question…