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What Matters Now to comedian Yochay Sponder: Post-Oct. 7 truth -- with laughs

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JL;DR SUMMARY Comedian Yochay Sponder uses humor as a form of Israeli advocacy, especially in the wake of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks, which claimed the life of his soldier cousin. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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HamasHebrew LanguageCultural IdentityOctober 7 AttacksLanguage And IdentityPolitical CorrectnessIsraeli ComedySelf Hating JewsIsraeli AdvocacyYochay Sponder

Places mentioned

Jerusalem, Israel
"Welcome to the Times of Israel's What Matters Now. I'm your host, WD editor Amanda Borchel-Dahn, here today in our Jerusalem offices with Yochai Sponder."
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"You've been doing also in Tel Aviv in English, which is interesting."
Israel
"For me, I mean, as somebody who lives here in Israel since 1999, I just love to hear how you're playing with the language as well, with the English language, but from an Israeli perspective."
Morocco
"So I'm half Moroccan and half Polish. Moroccan. Morocco. I can do jokes."
Poland
"Also my father is Polish. Holocaust jokes I can do."
United States
"I opened the show with who I am and we'll go from there."
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
"I traveled with my husband once to Toronto. And again, he's Israeli born and he just was driving and honking, as one does, of course."
Syria
"It's not like when you're saying Jews in in Syria right?"
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