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Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel discusses Jewish advocacy and leadership.
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with him quite a while ago. been a minute. Yeah. Happens to be that the the week the week we sat down with Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel was around the same time that those Jews got kicked off that flight, that Lufthansa flight. Yeah. And interestingly enough, this week those Jews that were kicked off received a check in the mail for upwards of $17,000 Wow. in uh in in How are you doing? com- compensation. That's the word I'm looking for. For in compensation. I was going to say what? I was going to say like cons of like soup. There you go. a lot of soup in the mail. Thank you, Nissan. Shkoyach. Um but we sat down with Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, who is the head honcho, Mamesh. the leader at the Agudah, the executive director, which is so appropriate cuz this weekend, when we put this out, is actually the Agudah convention. That's right. If you're listening right out of the gate, Agudah convention right now live as we speak. Yeah, that's when they convene. Exactly. convention is Which is unconventional for Agudah. Because historically they've always done the convention on the Thanksgiving weekend. Uh-huh. This is a trailblazing model to do it. Speaking of trailblazers, Touro University. Now, we'll get back to you, Touro. Relax over there. How are you? Anyways, uh I think you'll enjoy this episode if you're an Askan or if you're an aspiring Askan, or if if you don't like Askanim, I think you'll you'll like it regardless. Very deep. Very deep. But we first like to say a big thank you to our friends at To- To- To- ToVido. Because ToVido is the place where you want your kids watching content. They create content all year long, Uh whether
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