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3 episodes with israeli olympic
2 episodes with israeli olympic
3 episodes with israeli olympic
2 episodes with israeli olympic
After the attack on the Israeli Olympic team at the 1972 Munich Summer Games, the government of Israel put in motion a secret plan to find and assassinated the planners of the attack. This worldwide mission is dramatized in Steven Spielberg's 2005 dramatic thriller “Munich.”
On this episode, Barry and Mike thoroughly investigate the 2024 hidden gem September 5, which dramatizes ABC's coverage of the 1972 attack on the Israeli Olympic team. Topics discussed include the restraint and focus of the film, the fantastic filmmaking and pondering how a movie this good got overlooked. Barry and Mike also spend some time discussing Gene Hackman and his legendary career.
It was supposed to be “the cheerful Games.” That was the motto of the 1972 Munich Olympics, which was meant to usher in a peaceful new era on the world stage after the horrors in Germany just three decades earlier. Instead, on September 5th 1972, just after 4am. eight men in tracksuits jumped the fence at Munich's Olympic Village, armed with rifles and grenades. These men belonged to Black September — a group associated with the Palestine Liberation Organization – and their plan was to take the Israeli Olympic team hostage and hold them at gunpoint until 328 prisoners detained by Israel were released. The standoff ended in confusion and bloodshed. All eleven hostages died, as did a policeman and five members of the Black September group. This, despite media reports – broadcast to 900m people around the world – that the prisoners had been rescued. Today on Script Apart, we talk with the writer-director, Tim Fehlbaum, and co-writer, Moritz Binder, of a newly Oscar-nominated drama that contemplates what the Munich massacre might tell us about media complicity in acts of terrorism. The pair wrote this film with writer Alex David focused not on depicting the overall events of that terrible day – Steven Spielberg covered that with 2005's Munich, written by past Script Apart guests Eric Roth and Tony Kushner. Instead, Tim and Mortiz's angle on the story is through the American sports broadcasters who suddenly find themselves tasked with covering the situation live as it unfolds – a world first. Never before had an event like this played out on television as it happened. Today, we're very much used to consuming terrible atrocities as they happen on our digital devices. But in 1972, such a thing was unheard of. September 5 – which stars a great ensemble cast – puts the ethical questions involved with live-streaming terror under the microscope. It's a period piece that resonates with disturbing power today not least because, since the film was finished, a harrowing new chapter in the history of violence between Israel and Palestine has been written. Maybe, the film seems to wonder, when you have a form of media that rewards being first and being loudest instead of being accurate, any type of live coverage is doomed to inflame and exploit rather than inform. This episode, as ever, contains spoilers.Script Apart is hosted by Al Horner and produced by Kamil Dymek. Follow us on Instagram, or email us on thescriptapartpodcast@gmail.com.Support for this episode comes from ScreenCraft, Final Draft and WeScreenplay.To get ad-free episodes and exclusive content, join us on Patreon.Support the show
On this week's episode, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) ask what, precisely, Trump's “ambassadors to Hollywood” are supposed to be doing. Then they review September 5, the harrowing tick-tock examination of how ABC Sports covered Black September's terrorist attack at the Munich games that led to the slaughter of nearly the entire Israeli Olympic team. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with a friend!
Officials say between 4,000 and 5,000 homes have been destroyed in California's Eaton Fire, with the number expected to rise. The fire, which is in and around Pasadena, is still 0% contained.As the Eaton Fire displaces thousands across Southern California, jazz musician Dale Fielder loses his home and a lifetime of musical work. Tom Hanson reports from Altadena, where those who evacuated seek refuge at a shelter housing 1,200 people.Actor Milo Ventimiglia, best known for his roles in "This is Us" and "Gilmore Girls," spoke about losing his home in the L.A.-area wildfires as he and his pregnant wife prepare to welcome their baby soon. Ventimiglia spoke to CBS News as he returned to his home after evacuating.A national day of mourning for former President Jimmy Carter began with his funeral in Washington, D.C. on Thursday and ended in Plains, Georgia, where he was laid to rest. CBS News' Nikole Killion has more on how he was honored on a final day of tributes.The Supreme Court on Friday will hear arguments that could determine the fate of TikTok. More than 170 million Americans use the social media platform. A law passed by Congress is set to take effect Jan. 19 and could lead to a ban of the platform in the U.S.As the NFL playoffs begin, Jan Crawford goes to Baltimore, where a former Broadway designer is helping the Ravens build on their string of success, contributing to the team's winning culture as they head into the wildcard weekend.Actor Peter Sarsgaard, known for roles in "Presumed Innocent" and "Dead Man Walking," now stars in "September Five," recounting the harrowing story of an American broadcasting team during the 1972 Munich Olympics. Sarsgaard portrays ABC executive Roone Arledge as the team covers the Israeli Olympic team hostage crisis live.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Dr. G Elhanan x AI explore Esports' potential inclusion in the 2028 Olympics, examining its educational, cultural, and business impacts. A Follow-up on Calcalist's 2024 Gaming Convention, 'The Future of Gaming' in TLV. In the convention, Israeli Olympic champion and Chair of the Israeli Olympic Association, Yael Arad
FIDF CEO Steven Weil is joined by Israeli Olympic Gold Medalist Tommy Reuveny to discuss his experience being an Israeli olympian during the war, traveling the world as an Israeli Jewish athlete, and what it meant to him to be the only Israeli gold medalist in the 2024 olympics. Tommy explains that October 7th occurred shortly after the olympic trials. Tommy's brother is a IDF soldier for an elite unit. He arrived on the scene in the morning of October 7th. After three days of anxiously waiting, Tommy got word that his brother was okay. While training was difficult for Tommy after the attack, the olympic committee urged him and the other Israeli olympians to go out and win a medal. The fear of a repeat of the Munich Olympics, coupled with whatsapp death threats and the desire to win a medal for his country in desperate need of victory, the pressure was immense. Tommy was even urged not to wear clothing that would identify him was a Jew or Israeli in public, or speak Hebrew in public. But the threats and the will to win for his country propelled Tommy's competitive spirit, ultimately resulting in a runaway finish for the gold. Donate NOW at FIDF.org for the fastest and most direct way to give IDF Soldiers what they need most. 100% of your contribution will go to meet their emergency humanitarian needs.
What happens when life's challenges pull you away from your passion, only to lead you back years later with a renewed sense of purpose? Michele Kuvin Kupfer, a former member of the 1980 Israeli Olympic swim team and filmmaker, invites us into her world—a world where swimming was once both an escape and a refuge. Despite facing hurdles due to her Jewish background and personal struggles, Michelle's return to the pool as she approached 60 is a story of resilience and transformation. Her journey back to the Maccabiah Games in 2022 alongside her Israeli teammates highlights the enduring power of sport to heal. Michele is the Co-Director and Executive Producer of the new film Parting the Waters, a Feature-length documentary about trauma, hope, and courage. Besides being a documentary filmmaker Michele is also a behavioral therapist, and educational consultant. She is the co-founder of Difference Diaries, a documentary short film series focused on adolescents and young adults with chronic illness. We also explore the historical and emotional significance of the Maccabiah Games for Jewish athletes, including the unbreakable bonds forged through shared challenges and triumphs. Michelle's journey is further amplified through her work in film, where she shares stories of chronic illness and mental health, reflecting her commitment to resilience and community. From overcoming fear to finding joy in new beginnings, this episode celebrates the inclusivity and empowerment swimming offers, inspiring listeners to live fully and embrace life's possibilities at any stage.Film website https://www.partingthewatersfilm.com/Email us at HELLO@ChampionsMojo.com. Opinions discussed are not medical advice, please seek a medical professional for your own health concerns.
In this episode, we dive into the inspiring journey of Israeli Olympic windsurfing champion, Tom Reuveny. Born in Ramat Gan, raised between Israel and Ireland, Tom's unique upbringing fueled his passion for windsurfing at a young age. Guided by his coach, Gal Friedman—Israel's first Olympic gold medalist.Tom shares how his childhood love for the sea shaped his path, his high-adrenaline lifestyle, and how the ongoing conflict in Israel impacted his focus as he competed under immense emotional pressure. With his brother serving in the IDF during the war, Tom explains how this victory was about more than personal achievement—it was a moment of pride for an entire nation.Join us as we explore the mindset, dedication, and resilience behind one of Israel's brightest Olympic stars in the face of personal and national challenges.Co-Creator and Host - Eylon LevyCo-Creator and Creative Director - Guy RossExecutive Producer - Asher Westropp-EvansDirector - Lotem SegevGraphics/Assistant Director - Thomas GirschEditor/Assistant Director - Benny GoldmanResearcher - Akiva GluckStay up to date at:https://www.stateofanationpodcast.com/X: https://twitter.com/stateofapodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/stateofapod/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?... LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/state-of-a-nation
Tonight's rundown: Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Thursday September 5, 2024. Stand Up for Your Country. Talking Points Memo: Kamala Harris continues to stay silent. Is the media covering for her? Hunter Biden is attempting to change his plea to avoid a trial in his tax case. Journalist Mark Halperin enters the No Spin Zone to discuss Donald Trump's campaign issues, and the media's deception. A 14-year-old freshman student shot and killed 4 people, injured 9 others at a Georgia High School. Bill lays out his solution for gun violence. Smart Life: A reminder that will help you save money. This Day in History: The Munich Massacre, the Palestinian group Black September attacks the Israeli Olympic delegation at the Summer Olympics in Munich. Final Thought: Watch a SNEAK PEEK of Bill's upcoming NewsNation special. In Case You Missed It: Read Bill's latest column, It's the Values, Stupid For a limited time, get our three latest Political Memorabilia mugs at a 25% discount. Our Political Memorabilia 2.0 bundle includes a Not Woke mug in navy, a Team Normal mug in white and our newest mug, No Socialism in navy. ORDER TODAY! Election season is here! Now's the time to get a Premium or Concierge Membership to BillOReilly.com, the only place for honest news analysis. Preorder Bill's latest book, CONFRONTING THE PRESIDENTS, out September 10th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 5, 1972. Members of the Palestinian liberation terrorist group, Black September take 9 members of the Israeli Olympic team hostage. This episode originally aired in 2023.Support the show! Join Into History for ad-free listening and more.History Daily is a co-production of Airship and Noiser.Go to HistoryDaily.com for more history, daily.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro wins his third presidential term, tensions between Israel and Hezbollah flare following a Golan Heights attack, Vladimir Putin vows 'mirror measures' if nuclear-capable US missiles are placed in Germany, Joe Biden calls for sweeping reforms to the US Supreme Court, Trump is criticized for saying Christians won't have to vote again, Human Rights Watch says warring parties are committing 'widespread sexual violence' in Sudan, the US plans to overhaul its military command in Japan, two children are killed in a UK stabbing attack, right-wing activist Tommy Robinson is arrested in the UK, France is probing death threats against Israeli Olympic athletes, and Apple will reportedly delay the launch of AI features in iOS. Sources: www.verity.news
The Israeli Olympic team is made up of some 88 athletes competing in 16 different sports. Last time Israel took home four medals: two gold and two bronzes. Where are the Blue and white athletes going to shine in Paris? We got the update from Lian Wildau, KAN's special reporter to the Olympic games. (photo: Aurelien Morissard/AP)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
*) Netanyahu visit sparks wave of protests in DC, with all sides criticising the Israeli PM The arrival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has touched off a flurry of protests in the US capital, including a sit-in at a congressional office building that ended with multiple arrests. Some of the demonstrations have condemned Israel but others have expressed support while pressuring Netanyahu to strike a ceasefire deal and bring home the hostages. Dozens of protesters rallied outside his hotel Monday evening, and on Tuesday afternoon, hundreds of demonstrators staged a flash mob-style protest in the Cannon Building, which houses offices of House of Representatives members. *) WHO ‘extremely worried' over possible polio outbreak in Gaza A top WHO official said he was “extremely worried” over possible outbreaks in war-torn Gaza after poliovirus was detected in the sewage. The official warned that communicable diseases could cause more deaths than injuries. But since human samples were yet to be collected, according to the WHO, it remained unclear if anyone was actually infected with the virus. *) Secret Service asks Trump to cancel outdoor rallies: report In a dramatic turn of events, the US Secret Service has thrown a major wrench into former US president Donald Trump's campaign plans following a harrowing assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13. According to the Washington Post, the Secret Service has asked Trump's team to stop large outdoor rallies and events, reflecting concerns over the former president's safety. The assassination attempt has prompted the Secret Service to re-evaluate the risks associated with Trump's public appearances. *) Death toll soars to over 200 in Ethiopia landslide Using shovels or their bare hands, local residents searched desperately for survivors after a landslide in a remote area of southern Ethiopia killed at least 229 people. It is reported to be the deadliest disaster recorded in the Horn of Africa nation. So far, 148 men and 81 women are confirmed to have lost their lives after the disaster struck in the Kencho-Shacha locality in the Gofa Zone on Monday. And finally… *) IOC mulls Palestinian call for Israel ban from Paris 2024 The International Olympic Committee has been weighing a Palestinian call for Israeli athletes to be barred from the Games over the war in Gaza, three days before the Opening Ceremony in Paris. As the Israeli Olympic team settled into the Athletes' Village on Tuesday, the IOC was studying a letter sent by the Palestine Olympic Committee to President Thomas Bach. The letter sent on Monday asked him to ban the Israelis, citing the bombings of besieged Gaza as a breach of the Olympic truce.
In the days leading up to the 2024 Paris Olympics, numerous Israeli athletes have received anonymous death threats, proclaiming a repeat of the 1972 Munich massacre. A far-left French lawmaker denounced the Israeli delegation as being "not welcome in Paris." Rather than bowing out, Israel has been assured of 24-hour security by the French interior minister. It's a tremendous amount of extra pressure on the country's top athletes, who are already under stress to compete internationally and make their country proud. At the last Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the Holy Land's delegation came out with a record-breaking 90 athletes—and won two golds and two bronzes, their best showing ever. Can they improve this year in Paris? To guide us through the top Olympic sports to watch, the Menschwarmers are joined by Ido Rakovsky, the sports editor at Haaretz covering the 2024 Summer Games. And before that, the hosts walk through some notable Diaspora Jews worth keeping eyes on as the games kick off on July 26. Credits Menschwarmers is hosted by James Hirsh and Gabe Pulver, and produced and edited by Michael Fraiman. Our intro music is by Coby Lipovitch, and our outro music is "Organ Grinder Swing" by chēēZ π. This show is a member of The CJN Podcast Network. Follow the Menschwarmers on Twitter @menschwarmers or TikTok @menschwarmers. Support the show by subscribing to this podcast or donating to The CJN.
Yoav Bruck, 3 time Israeli Olympic swimmer an owner of ISSTA Sports Travel and Kenes Tours speaks with Rabbi Sherman on the deep connection between his career as an internationally acclaimed Israeli swimmer and his mission to bring people to Israel to see the land. He shares with us how the lessons he learned in the pool relate to our lives.
Since October 7, the USC Shoah Foundation has added a new component to its mission: collecting the testimonies of those who survived the worst antisemitic attack since the Holocaust to counter those who deny it took place. Dr. Robert Williams, Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation, joins us to discuss the history and tendency to deny atrocities committed against Jews, the importance of collecting testimonies, and how they help in understanding antisemitism in all its forms. *The views and opinions expressed by guests do not necessarily reflect the views or position of AJC. Episode Lineup: (0:40) Belle Yoeli (1:44) Robert Williams Show Notes: Take action to bring all hostages home now. To support our work today, you can visit AJC.org/donate. Or text AJC DONATE to 52886. Learn more: USC Shoah Foundation: Survivors of the October 2023 Hamas Terrorist Attacks Testimony of Shaylee Atary Winner Testimony of Maor Moravia The Testimonies Archive The Testimonies Archive Listen – People of the Pod on the Israel-Hamas War: 4-Year-Old Hostage Abigail Idan is Free–Her Family is On a Mission to #BringThemAllHome What Happens Next: AJC's Avital Leibovich on the Hostage Deal and Challenges Ahead What Would You Do If Your Son Was Kidnapped by Hamas? Follow People of the Pod on your favorite podcast app, and learn more at AJC.org/PeopleofthePod You can reach us at: peopleofthepod@ajc.org If you've appreciated this episode, please be sure to tell your friends, and rate and review us on Apple Podcasts. Transcript of Interview with Robert Williams: Manya Brachear Pashman: Since the Hamas terror attacks on Israel on October 7, the Shoah Foundation has added a new component to its mission: collecting the testimonies of those who survived the worst antisemitic attack since the Holocaust to counter those who have dare to deny it took place. Dr. Robert Williams is the Advisor to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, where he served for four years as chair of the Committee on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial. In October 2022, he became the Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation. Dr Williams is with us now to discuss the history and tendency to deny atrocities, in this case, those committed against Jews. Thank you for joining us. Dr. Williams, if you could begin by explaining to listeners what Holocaust denial is, and how it's similar or different from Holocaust trivialization and distortion. Robert Williams: Holocaust denial is a little easier for us to wrap our heads around, for better or worse. Holocaust deniers are essentially trying to tell people that the Holocaust didn't happen for one of two reasons. The most obvious reason is because they're antisemitic, they want to tell people that the Jewish Diaspora writ large has come together to invent this grand conspiracy to pull the wool over the eyes of non-Jews for all manner of dastardly purposes. So that's the first reason. The second reason is also antisemitic, although in a slightly different way. That is to rehabilitate national socialism as an acceptable ideology. No matter which way you slice that cake, it still ends up being antisemitism. That's why, to echo the words of people like Deborah Lipstadt, and others: Holocaust denial is antisemitism. Full stop. And it's a problem. It's something we need to deal with. But in our parts of the world, roughly speaking, the northern hemisphere, the West, it's become fortunately a bit of a microphenomenon over the last couple of decades. The bigger problem is the second part of your question: Holocaust distortion, and I use the terms trivialization and distortion interchangeably. I prefer to use distortion. But Holocaust distortion is in essence, rhetoric that minimizes, confuses, or otherwise misrepresents the Holocaust, both as something factual, and something that has relevance today. And that can take on a variety of forms, it can be something obvious like minimizing the number of victims, to something that's a little less obvious like figure skaters dressing up like concentration camp victims for their routines. Now distortion also brings with it a challenge: is somebody distorting because they're cynical antisemites? Sometimes the answer is yes. Other times, distortion of the Holocaust happens because people don't know the facts, or they think they know the facts and they don't, and they end up saying the wrong thing. But again, the end result, no matter the motivation, becomes problematic. Because if you are misrepresenting the Holocaust, you are effectively doing two things. On an ethical plane, you are disrespecting the memories of the victims and the survivors, and that's wrong. And on a practical plane, you are opening the door. I like to say Holocaust distortion kind of acts like a gateway drug to outright denial, to conspiracy thinking, and to more dangerous forms of antisemitism. So you have to tackle distortion, but you tackle distortion often in ways different from that of denial. Manya Brachear Pashman: But rather than focus on the word Holocaust, I want to focus on the word denial. You mentioned Deborah Lipstadt, for example, and she recently expressed concern that people are denying that Hamas committed so many heinous crimes on October 7. Is this a phenomenon, this denial of atrocities – do you see it more applying to atrocities against Jews? Or have we seen it in other instances? Robert Williams: Well, we've certainly seen it in other cases of mass crimes and genocides. One of the most prominent cases that predates the Holocaust is denial of the genocide of the Armenian people in the early 20th century, something that persists in certain parts of the world and is part of official state policy in some countries. Denial of the Armenian Genocide is problematic for a whole host of reasons. First, again, it's immoral visa vie the victims and survivors of that particular genocide to deny their experience, to say it never happened, to minimize it. It also has inhibited global understanding of Armenian life, history and culture since the genocide happened. So denial of mass atrocity crimes is something quite common when it comes to the denial of crimes against the Jewish people. You do see this over and over over and over again, though, you see, either excuses for the various pogroms that have claimed the lives of hundreds of 1000s of Jews over the centuries, or an attempt to minimize it, or an attempt to suppress that history. And that's separate from the denial and suppression of Holocaust history that we've seen through time. And we have seen, not just in the case of the October 7 attacks, but denial of other atrocities that were carried out against Jews through various forms of anti semitic terror violence. But we've definitely begun paying attention to it after October 7, in part due to the scale, you know, the largest act of anti semitic violence against the Jewish people since 1945. In the one place where it was never supposed to happen, people were supposed to be safe. And the international community, you know, you're used to seeing these claims of exaggeration or outright denial from certain countries in the Middle East or North Africa, but this is become widespread. Think within, was it a week, nine days after that horrible series of attacks, with people asking to see photographs of the murdered children, because they didn't believe that. So engaging in very dangerous, I would say almost pornographic rhetoric, about violence against the most innocent among us. And engaging in it in a way that encourages denial encourages doubting the veracity of these crimes, or–and we've seen this in other corners as well since October 7 –rhetoric that in turn moves from denial to outright justification for the atrocities that were committed. It's very tricky. It's not black and white. Unfortunately. Mnya Brachear Pashman: Does social media amplify Holocaust denial, and are we seeing that same trend now with the October 7 attacks? You talk about it being a post-truth world. Robert Williams: I absolutely think that's the case. Although I will say, outright denial on social media. Again, it's there. It's a problem, but it's less common than distortion and intentional manipulation. You know, I think even the term Holocaust distortion is potentially problematic, we're probably better served calling it Holocaust disinformation. And I think we're seeing some of the same dynamics at play in the post October 7, discussions that we see in online forums, including closed forums, in places like telegram or Gab or Discord, as well as in more public facing ones like X and Instagram and threads. Manya Brachear Pashman: Before we leave the topic of denial, and move on to distortion, because I do want to explore that a little bit more. I do want to ask about the role of Holocaust denial in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Palestinian Authority leader, Mahmoud Abbas, he wrote his dissertation at the University of Moscow denying the Holocaust happened to the Jews, that it was more of a product of the Jews' collusion with the Nazis. Is that a belief that is common among Palestinians or pro-Palestinian supporters. What role does that piece of disinformation play in exacerbating the sentiments? Robert Williams: There's a lot to unpack in that question. I'm going to start with the caveat that I'm a specialist on Europe, not a specialist on the Middle East. So a lot of my understanding of dynamics around distortion and denial among non Israeli Palestinians is anecdotal, and based on secondary literature. But it does seem that there is a current in some parts of the Palestinian culture where denial of the Holocaust is known to the degrees to which it's accepted, or probably vary from time and place. And it makes a certain amount of sense. Because if you can deny the reality of the Holocaust, you can then point to the State of Israel and say, the Jewish people who've never been victims were the eternal victim. It's much easier to be a victim when you're in a complex political world anyway. The more interesting thing is the origins of the Abbas dissertation, and how it's managed to spread across at least the Arabic speaking and Persian speaking worlds. To a certain degree, it's something that has been generated in Muslim society. But as scholars like Jeffrey Herf, have shown certain elements of antisemitism spread from Europe in the case of Professor Herf's work, from National Socialist Europe to parts of the Middle East, and then those forms of antisemitism spread. And as the works of people like Isabella Taparofsky have shown, particularly in the case of the Abbas dissertation, a boss wrote that dissertation in the Soviet Union and at a time when the Soviets promoted through international propaganda schemes and domestic propaganda, virulent, dangerous forms of anti-Zionist antisemitism, that also included trafficking and Holocaust denial. So the origins of it came from the Cold War, policies and practices, to a certain extent, of the Cold War policies and practices of the regime that no longer exists. A regime that sought to undermine democracy, sought to undermine solidarity in the western world sought to undermine the State of Israel, well throughout its history. And there's no acknowledgement of that. So if we're going to root out Holocaust denial, no matter where it lies, we have to begin with its origins. And those origins vary from time and place. Some of the origins lie in the National Socialist experiment. The Nazis had all manner of terms and actual formal programs to cover up their crimes. Some of those origins lie with certain French intellectuals, certain origins lie with American public figures in the 1940s. And some of the origins lie in the Soviet Union. We need to know the enemy top to bottom if we're ever going to deal with. Manya Brachear Pashman: I want to move on to distortion. And I'm curious if the kind of distortion that we're talking about that is common now on social media and in conversations, especially those around October 7, does it tend to be a far right phenomenon, far left, pretty universal? Robert Williams: So Holocaust distortion, the trends have shown, cuts across all ideological, social, cultural, political and religious barriers. Now, certain forms are more common to certain groups at certain times, the forms of distortion that minimize the number of persons murdered during the Holocaust, for example, or claim that the Jewish people did something to deserve the Holocaust. Those have typically been more common on the far political right. And among some religious conservative extremists. Some of the forms that suggest that the Jewish people make use of the Holocaust for all manner of gain, everything from funding to guilt to special protections, to justifying the State of Israel – pretty much cut across the left, right divide. Certain leftist forms of Holocaust distortion through antisemitism that have emerged at least since the Second Intifada, take the form of the Jewish people using the Holocaust to justify the State of Israel or the policies of the Israeli government. But by and large, distortion of the Holocaust is unfortunately a phenomenon that is everyday. It even takes the form of particular types of commercial distortion, people engaging in it without any ideological agenda. One need think of the unfortunate situation that seems to happen every couple of years where Anne Frank Halloween costumes go up for sale in the US or in the UK, or when Chinese made ornaments depicting Auschwitz Birkenau become up for sale on on Amazon or even I think it's still possible today to buy model kits and toys of Hitler and his inner circle. People who make the subject so blase and everyday that it loses its power. That's a different form of distortion, stripped of ideology. Alright, October 7 distortion at first, and again, I'm an historian, so I like to have a wealth of evidence before me. But based on early observations and research, those forms of distortion and denial that emerged often enough were associated with in the Western world, largely the political left, and certain forms of protest movements that either had shared affinity with the Palestinian cause or would be affinity with the Palestinian cause. But what we've seen over the last couple of weeks is that is no longer the plaything only of the political left. We have seen some people on the extreme right begin engaging in similar rhetoric. Now, there's no sympathy being given to the Palestinians in that rhetoric, but claims that the State of Israel is making too much use of this, or the Jewish diaspora is using this for all manner of bad things. So it is beginning to cut across those boundaries that we've seen. Manya Brachear Pashman: The Shoah Foundation holds the world's largest video collection of Holocaust survivor and witness testimonies. And it has now begun collecting video testimonies of the atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists against the Israelis on October 7. Why? Robert Williams: So I assumed the leadership role here at the Shoah Foundation about 13 months ago, and I was brought here to establish a robust initiative focused on antisemitism. The Shoah Foundation was created as a platform so that the voices of Holocaust survivors could echo for future generations, and moreover, lead to a better world. In a sense, we engage in wish fulfillment. Survivors gave us their testimonies to bring about the world they wanted. And when you get right down to it, survivors wanted only a few things. One of those things, I guarantee you, was a world without antisemitism. So we have an obligation to those survivors to try, especially before the last of the survivors leave us, to create the conditions to bring about that better future. So we had been developing this laboratory, this multi-subject expert initiative that would deal with antisemitism as it's existed since 1945. And we were going to start, we are starting, with the development of a massive collection. Our minimum goal is 10,000 testimonies of antisemitic violence in a variety of forms. And we broke, we broke that into five categories. One of those categories was the survivors of antisemitic terror attacks. Several months ago, we thought, alright, we're gonna focus on this, our starting point is going to be the 1994 bombings in Buenos Aires. We're going to work our way forward. And then October 7 happened. So we had to swing into action immediately. Within 12 days, we had secured the first testimony on the ground. This was possible thanks in part to our already existing work in Israel and our strong partnerships with Israeli institutions, including the National Library of Israel and Yad Vashem and others. The Ghetto Fighters House as well. And very quickly utilizing our on the ground teams, our partnerships, we began to acquire testimonies using the same methodology that we did in the 1990s when we started taking Holocaust survivor testimonies. And a few things became readily apparent to us. One is just the simple tragedy, and the painful irony of this endeavor. In the 1990s, when a survivor came and gave us her testimony, the first thing you would see is a sheet. The survivors name, the date of the interview, the interviewer's name, some basic information. And we're seeing the same thing when we look at survivors of the October 7 attacks. There's true tragedy there. We've secured as of the date, as of today's recording, a little more than 250 of these testimonies. They will be put online for free, I think we have about 70 or 80 online right now. We have a partnership with some media partners, including Tablet Magazine here in the United States to make them even more available, and they will be made available to our Israeli partners for use, because this is the history of Israel and its people now. But our goal is to use these here, so that we can begin training people from a major university, how to understand antisemitism in all its forms and how to build resilience against it, how to research the subject on a deeper level, how to write better journalism around the subject, and how to respond and recognize that the victim of antisemitism is not some faceless person or somebody who lived eight or so decades ago. Somebody today, just like you, just like me, just like our children, or our parents. Manya Brachear Pashman: Before we share a clip of one of the survivors from the Shoah Foundation's October 7th Testimony Collection, I want to give listeners a chance to turn down the volume or fast forward. These testimonies are incredibly painful to listen to. This is a portion of testimony from Shaylee Atary Winner, from Kibbutz Kfar Aza, who hid for 26 hours with her newborn daughter [Shaya]. Her husband, Yahav, was killed. [Portion of testimony from Shaylee Atary Winner] Manya Brachear Pashman: The voices and stories of the survivors are always so difficult to hear and even the bravery it takes to recount these horrors is so hard to fathom. We are talking about people who dare to deny these horrors happened. This collection serves to counter those attempts, right? Robert Williams: That's correct. There's a lot of, as we all know, the Israeli government pulled together GoPro and other footage captured from the terrorists. There's a lot of security camera footage. A number of teams have gone in, including a group at Reichman University, doing 3D scans of the atrocity sites. The physical record of this is astounding. So far, I've heard different numbers, I don't want to give a precise number, let's say tens of 1000s of videos have been made. And we're only just beginning to understand it. Manya Brachear Pashman: We're going to share another clip here. This is Maor Moravia, a 37-year-old father of two, on returning to Kibbutz Kfar Aza after the October 7 terror attacks. [Portion of testimony from Maor Moravia] Robert Williams That the best way to counter denial and disinformation is to hear it from those who lived it, to see their experiences. And will that convince everybody? No. Those who don't want to be convinced, those who have an agenda will always be a problem. Our job is to make sure that we have this content and are reaching audiences who are vulnerable to being radicalized, vulnerable to becoming extremists, before that happens. And we're seeing that happen in a variety of spaces right now. So we have a big job to do. Manya Brachear Pashman: Rob, you mentioned being there at USC. Our December 14th episode was tied to the congressional inquiry of university presidents regarding antisemitism on college campuses. Have the students and faculty at USC taken advantage of The Shoah Foundation's presence there on campus? It seems like such a great resource, as long as people are actually utilizing it. Robert Williams: Yes, I'm very proud to be at USC, especially right now. You know, the university president has been in regular contact and dialogue not not just with us, but with Hillel, with Chabad, with the Jewish students, with the Religious Life Center, with faculty across this massive University of 22 schools. Beyond that, the Shoah Foundation has been in dialogue with different departments, including the School of Social Work right before we started this podcast. Now it had been planned in advance of October 7, but a couple weeks after October 7, we here at USC, along with our partners, and Hillel International, AJC, the local Federation, brought university administrators from across the west coast to our campus, for one reason: to learn about antisemitism and how to respond to it within a university environment. Now, we haven't crowed about this. We're just doing the work. But I think the fact that we have strong leadership from the top, we have a peerless institution in the USC Shoah Foundation here, literally in the middle of the campus, has protected us against some of the unfortunate trends that we've seen on campuses and other parts of the country. Manya Brachear Pashman: I mean, I could see being in any kind of a protest environment and hearing vile things come from the students mouths and pointing to the to your facility and saying, look over there, go in there. Robert Williams: Yeah, well, and to a certain extent that has happened. You know, we do have regular outreach to students over the summer is part of the build up to our anti semitism programming, we took a significant number of the student athletes from USC's track and field team, a track and field team that has more Olympic gold medals than most countries, to our offices for a week of training on how to understand antisemitism in all of its forms. And while they were here, they met with local Jewish community representatives, of course, our staff gave lectures as you would expect, we brought in virtual, or by remote, a very well known survivor of the Holocaust, Shaul Ladany. Mr. Ladany, for those who don't know, is one of the most remarkable and sweetest people I've ever met. He's a survivor of the Holocaust, who made his way to Israel, became an Israeli athlete. As he told me, he felt he wasn't a fast enough marathon runner. So he became a speed walker, and entered and became part of the Israeli Olympic team in 1972. And he was one of the first athletes to escape the dormitories during that horrible, horrible tragedy. So he spoke to these athletes in his sport. After that, we took them to Poland, but we didn't take them to Poland just for the reason everybody would expect. We started in Krakow, where the students learned about a thousand years of Jewish life and culture, from its origins to its challenges to its almost Renaissance today. To learn about something more than just the Shoah. They did, of course, visit Auschwitz Birkenau to learn more about the Holocaust. And they walked away from this program. more aware of the antisemitism in their midst. One student said something along the lines of, ‘I didn't realize I was engaging in distortion of the Holocaust until I took part in this program.' And some of these students after October 7, started emailing us again, ‘I'm hearing this, I'm hearing that, how do I respond to my friends?'. So our staff is working with them. And this is an important leadership group. This is a program that we have to continue engaging in. It will have an effect now, but I guarantee in a generation, it will have such an impact that we might start turning the tide because things have gotten so out of control in every other way. Manya Brachear Pashman: Rob, thank you so much for joining us and having this conversation. Robert Williams: I appreciate it Manya. Thank you. Manya Brachear Pashman: If you missed last week's episode, be sure to tune in for my conversation with Liz Hirsh Naftali whose great niece Four-year-old Abigail Mor Idan, returned home during a pause in fighting in November. The youngest U.S. citizen to have been kidnapped and held by Hamas, Abigail and her siblings are now orphans after Hamas murdered their parents. Hear about her family's continuing effort to bring the remaining 129 captives home to their loved ones.
On this episode of The Connected Leadership Podcast, Andy Lopata is joined by two-time Israeli Olympic medalist Ori Sasson, who openly discusses his battle with anxiety and how he overcame it to achieve success. Despite his struggles, Sasson won two Olympic bronze medals in judo and now runs Olympic Mindset, a motivational speaking company where he shares his journey of facing anxiety and fear of failure. Ori opens up about how anxiety affected his sports career and how it continues to impact people during the ongoing crisis in the Middle East. He shares his personal story, starting from his first judo competition, where he experienced extreme nervousness but found a burning desire to prove himself. This ambition drove him forward despite his crippling anxiety and fear of failure. According to Sasson, it is possible to live with anxiety and still be successful. He discusses the strategies he used to manage his anxiety, such as being kinder to himself, viewing losses as opportunities for growth, and developing mental toughness during fights. He emphasises the significance of body language, mindset changes, and treating failure as a stepping stone rather than an endpoint. Transitioning from sports to motivational speaking, Andy and Ori discuss how he uses the coping skills he learned as an athlete to his new profession. He emphasises the power of mindset in overcoming adversities and that one's mind might tell stories, but it's up to the individual whether they allow their bodies to follow. Sasson shares his experiences with the downsides of seeking immediate gratification and the path to long-term success. He stresses the importance of understanding and rationalising issues to combat anxiety and mentions how obsession with short-term results often hampers building lasting relationships. These insights from the highly pressurised world of competitive sports offer crucial lessons in focusing on the present instead of longing for instant gratification. Ori openly discusses his Olympic journey, highlighting the need to reinvent oneself and adjust approaches to remain competitive. He notes that distractions like social media can hinder focus and describes how he overcame this by deleting his social media accounts during the Rio Olympics. The post-Rio 2016 period saw Ori Sasson becoming a national celebrity, which brought its own distractions. He emphasises the importance of maintaining professionalism and staying focused, lessons he learned firsthand during this phase. Additionally, he acknowledges that managing anxiety requires constant effort and awareness, as it never truly disappears. Undoubtedly, Ori Sasson's anecdotes provide valuable insights into the world of professional sports and personal and professional resilience. His conversation with Andy Lopata is a must-listen for anyone seeking honest reflections on overcoming adversity, managing anxiety, and striving for long-term success. Connect with Andy Lopata Website Connect with Ori Sasson Website LinkedIn Instagram
Rundown - Victor Mitchell - 31:30 Rabbi Steven Foster - 53:07 Troubadour Dave Gunders - 02:03:08 "Love Has a Way (Song for Deb)" by Dave Gunders - 02:08:47 Three Great Speeches by Joe Biden in Support of the Jewish State of Israel - 02:13:14 Wartime show delivers an opening monologue explaining the Tokyo Rose (Tehran Pete) characters on Colorado's radio dial. Peter Boyles says war between Hamas and Israel is “too morally ambiguous” to take sides. We have the sound. Host vehemently disagrees. Show takes time to salute the criminal law enforcement achievements of NY AG Tish James, Fulton County DA Fani Willis and Judge Tanya Chutkin. Convictions are being obtained and prospects of justice for Trump, Jenna Ellis and other Colorado accomplices are improving. Former Colorado State Representative Victor Mitchell, a top 2018 Republican contender for Governor, joins the podcast again, this time from Israel, where he and his wife have flown to help. Listen to the remarkable back story of this proud Jewish success story. Find out what motivates Vic Mitchell now. Rabbi Steven Foster has served his entire 53-year rabbinate at Temple Emanuel in Denver, CO until he retired in 2010. He is an accomplished author and now rabbi emeritus for the congregation and also works as the Jewish chaplain for The Denver Hospice. http://www.therabbiandsenatorsleeptogether.com/about-the-fosters-2/ Rabbi Foster founded the Temple Emanuel Preschool and Kindergarten and the Denver Jewish Day School (formerly known as the Theodore Herzl Jewish Day School and Rocky Mountain Hebrew Academy). Additionally, Foster founded a program for interfaith families called Stepping Stones to a Jewish Me. He explains the Foster way of interpreting Jewish law. Bacon mentioned. Rabbi Foster is a wise leader whose collected works are valued at CU-Boulder. When Colorado passed a law bigoted against gays, Rabbi Foster led the charge to get Amendment Two changed – and he succeeded. https://www.colorado.edu/innovationsinjewishlifecollections/steven-e-foster-papers Learn how this learned leader feels about Palestinians and Hamas now. He's outspoken and honest with a profound knowledge of Judaism. Most of all, Rabbi Foster is an advocate for freedom and all of G-d's people. https://www.amazon.com/Rabbi-Senator-Sleep-Together-Marrying/dp/0692510532 Rabbi Foster asked profound questions at the Memorial Service (Yizkur) portion of the last Yom Kippur service, “Where are we Hashem?” He talks about the role of hope for the Jewish people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDZR5NsX8VA Rabbi Foster knows politics and key political figures. Find out about Senator Bennet's Jewish background and the histories of Denver's most famous politicians and rabbis. A Milwaukee native who attended rabbinical school in Cincinnati, Rabbi Foster also has a famous political wife, Senator Joyce Foster. https://www.amazon.com/Rabbi-Senator-Sleep-Together-Marrying/dp/0692510532 Host and guest talk about being Jews, and the way Jew haters killed Denver talk radio host Alan Berg, the Israeli Olympic team in Munich and recently, the massacre by Hamas against the Jews of Israel on Sabbath/Simchat Torah. Rabbi Foster's warns of divisions among Jews. And Americans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBatV-6r2Fk Denver's Temple Emanuel hosted the Colorado memorial for people mourning Hamas' attacks on Jews, on the post-Hamas massacre Monday night. Find out the history of this oldest Colorado congregation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLcYD-F4tkk Show Troubadour Dave Gunders brings optimism with his sweet song, Love Has a Way. We have to rebuild but it is hard with 230 hostages still missing. We are grateful for the return of hostages Judith and Natalie Ranaan. We explain our bike ride to last Sunday's pro-Israel rally at State Capitol. We salute stalwart friend of Israel, President Joe Biden, who made a brave condolence call to Israel and we play in their entirety his amazing three pro-Israel and anti-Hamas speeches on October 10 (White House), 18 (Israel) and 19 (Oval Office). We ask why MAGA AM radio won't do the same. We know the sad MAGA answer.
The Munich massacre was a terrorist attack carried out during the 1972 summer Olympics in west Germany by eight members of the Palestinian militant organisation Black September, who infiltrated the Olympic Village, killed two members of the Israeli Olympic team, and took nine others hostage.
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When AJ Edelman tried out for the Israeli Olympic skeleton team at Lake Placid in 2014, he was told, flat-out, he'd never make it. Not only was he 30 pounds underweight, but the Israeli Olympic commitee wouldn't support him, because Israelis didn't care about the obscure winter sport in which an athlete slides down an icy track head-first as fast as 130 kilometres per hour. It wasn't the first time Edelman had been told he'd fail, and it wouldn't be the last. In the end, the American-born Orthodox athlete did ultimately represent the Holy Land on his skeleton bobsled in the 2018 Pyeongchang Games, though he retired shortly afterwards. Instead, he decided to plunge head-first into a different impossible-seeming task: reviving Israel's dormant bobsled team. Despite once again not receiving any support from the Israel, he's nonetheless set a goal of qualifying for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo. All he needs is a team. And funding. The dream may sound impossible, but as Edelman explains on this week's episode of Menschwarmers, "impossible" is a challenge he's happy to take on. Credits Menschwarmers is hosted by James Hirsh and Gabe Pulver, and produced and edited by Michael Fraiman. Our intro music is by Coby Lipovitch, and our outro music is "Organ Grinder Swing" by chēēZ π. This show is a member of The CJN Podcast Network. Follow the Menschwarmers on Twitter @menschwarmers or TikTok @menschwarmers. Support the show by subscribing to this podcast or donating to The CJN.
We're deep into summer and the sports world is moving slowly, so we're giving you a comprehensive round-up of Jewish sports stories you need to know. Israel qualified for Olympic soccer with big dreams for its young squad; a second Jewish guy named Amari was drafted into the NBA (well, the first was Amar'e, but still) in Amari Bailey for the Charlotte Hornets; the NHL now has another Canadian Jewish hockey talent to watch, drafting Talmud Torah alum Andrew Cristall out of British Columbia; and with the Tour de France in full swing, we recap some great Jewish moments in cycling, including a righteous-gentile racing cyclist, the tour's antisemitic origins and the surprising birth of Curious George. Credits Menschwarmers is hosted by James Hirsh and Gabe Pulver, and produced and edited by Michael Fraiman. Our intro music is by Coby Lipovitch, and our outro music is "Organ Grinder Swing" by chēēZ π. This show is a member of The CJN Podcast Network. Follow the Menschwarmers on Twitter @menschwarmers or TikTok @menschwarmers. Support the show by subscribing to this podcast or donating to The CJN.
Brian Kerle is an Australian former basketball legend, and was a coaching inductee into the National Basketball League (NBL) hall of fame in 2006. He competed at one of the more memorable summer Olympics in Germany in 1972. Amidst the Munich massacre terrorism attacks by Black September on the Israeli Olympic team, and bearing witness to the Soviet Union controversially ending the USA's 63-game winning streak. As a coach Brian guided the St Kilda Pumas and Brisbane Bullets to two championships each in the NBL. 2 x Olympian, 4 x NBL champion, 2 x NBL coach of the year - Brian has achieved it all in a sport that he didn't pick up until he was 21 years of age. Today he is a mentor for young indigenous communities through the Brian Kerle Basketball Academy where he is passionately committed to educating, upskilling, supporting and motivating the next generation of BK owls. Instagram: @briankerlebasketballFacebook: www.facebook.com/BrianKerleBasketball/Website: www.briankerlebasketball.com/Email: bkerle@briankerlebasketball.com________________Follow us on social media!Instagram: @normlesspodcast YouTube: www.youtube.com/@normlessFacebook: www.facebook.com/normlesspodcast/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/norm...TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@normlesspodcastWebsite: normlesspodcast.simplecast.com________________Hayden Kelly, ESSAM, AES, AEP, MHPSHost of the NORMLESS podcastConnect with me on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn ________________Want to support the show?The best way to show your support is by providing a review on the Apple Podcast app, Spotify or via our facebook page.You can also stay in the loop with the latest podcast updates, news and information by subscribing to our mailing list.
The terrorists and their hostages were shuttled to a nearby airfield, but the captors later turned on the Israeli athletes and killed them with machine guns and a ...
Sept. 6th is the anniversary of the horrible 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, where 11 Israeli Olympic athletes and trainers were brutally murdered by Arab Muslim terrorists, led by Yassar Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas. The fact that our leaders are silent and complacent that neither Arafat nor Abbas apologized for that, and other horrific terror attacks, and instead have accepted them as potential "peace partners", even as they continued to support and finance terror, is a blot of shame upon all of our leaders, global, Israeli and Jewish leaders.
In episode 39 of the Real Fit podcast, I interview Maor Tiyouri, an Israeli professional runner who lives and trains right here in Boulder. (Fun fact: I used to work out at the same gym as her and she's been on my list of people I wanted to interview since before I even launched the Real Fit podcast.)A two-time Olympic marathon runner, she represented Israel in Rio in 2016 and in Tokyo in 2020, which were held in 2021 because of COVID. A three-time Israeli national champion, Maor won the 1500m and 5000m in 2013 and the 1500m in 2015. She also held an Israeli record in the 5000m. She's competed in three World Athletic Championships in the half marathon in 2018 and 2020 and in the marathon in 2017.Right now, the Olympic runner is training to represent Israel once again in the marathon at the upcoming World Championships in Eugene on July 18th. A self-proclaimed coffee snob, Maor is coached by Stephen Jones and works part-time as a PR junior account manager at Verde Brand Communications.Connect with MaorInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/maor_tiyouri/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maor.tiyouri/Twitter: https://twitter.com/tiyouriReady to heal your relationship with food, exercise, and your body? I can help. Click here to learn more.Sign up for my newsletter and get a FREE GIFT, 11 Things You Can Do Right Now to Feel Better About Your BodyWant my secrets for getting published in top publications?They're all in my e-book, 7 Pitches That Sold. Use the code realfit50 to get half off.In this episode, we talk about…Maor's love-hate relationship with pro runningWhy she decided to work with an agentGetting COVID right before her Tokyo qualifying marathonConstantly changing her PT plan as a result of many injuries The silver lining of injuries and discovering new pursuits Discovering road cycling and doing a century — a 100-mile ride — on a borrowed bike without proper bike shoes and clipless pedals (!!!)Her relationship with foodWorking with a sports psychologistHow Maor avoids the comparison trapThe importance of process goalsInjury preventionThe importance of following her own pathThe most challenging thing she's been throughThe moment she knew she'd go proWhy she came to the U.S. The difference between training among men and womenHer favorite Israeli foodLinks/ResourcesVerde Brand CommunicationsShantaram by Gregory David RobertsWord Championships in EugeneLet's ConnectWebsite: https://pam-moore.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pammoorewriterInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/pammooSupport the show
Team, I am so excited to introduce you to Jeremy Wolf. Jeremy is from Phoenix, Arizona, a graduate of Trinity University in San Antonio Texas, a 2016 draft pick of the New York Mets, and a member of the 2020 Israeli Olympic baseball team. He started a nonprofit called More Than Baseball (morethanbaseball.org) that provides housing, food, equipment, career transition coaching, and legal services to minor league baseball players. He has also recently launched a new company called MindReady (mindready.co) that supports the mental health and well-being of all athletes. Today we are going to talk about where Jeremy has been, the path that life led him on, and where he looks to go. Jeremy is doing amazing things for the sporting community and beyond. Can't wait for you to join us and listen! LinkedIn: Andy Neary Instagram: @andy_neary Learn more: andyneary.com
While Richard Nixon served as President at the height of the Cold War. He was also President when terrorism exploded on to the World stage as a tool of the extreme Islamic World. In this special edition we look back at one of the most horrifying events of the early 1970's, by tuning into the voices of the people who covered it for ABC Sports. It features interviews with a Hall of Fame Quarterback turned sports commentator, Frank Gifford, and his counterpart T.V. Host Jim Mckay, a man best known for hosting a Saturday afternoon show which covered obscure sporting events like the National Lumberjack Championship in Hayward, Wisconsin or the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. But with little to no notice, ABC Sports President Roone Arledge, moved Jim Mckay in from his role at ABC's Wide World of Sports duties to cover a hostage situation at the Olympic Games in Munich, Germany. McKay would bring the humanity of the moment to the small screen as he covered the tragic circumstances of an Israeli Olympic team being held hostage by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September.It would be a tragic and grim moment for all involved and it would be the precursor for the challenges the free world still faces today, long after the fall of communism, by religious fanaticism hell bent on staying in the late 11th century. ***** Ranked number 17 as one of the 60 best American History podcasts of 2022 by Feedspot.comhttps://blog.feedspot.com/american_history_podcasts/
The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-474 – Frank Shorter (Audio: link) audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4474.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Chris' other show à Intro: Hello my long suffering friends. How are you? Well it's been a busy two weeks since the last time we chatted. And I truly missed. I get lonely. I worry. Where have you been? How do we know you're not dead in a ditch? Today I'm going to mess with the format again. I managed to write a really funny piece about varmints that I'm going to perform for you, but it came out at 2000 + words so I'm going to push that after the interview, skip section one and use the intro here to talk about our guest. Frank Shorter. Yes that Frank Shorter. It was one of those interviews where I was hopelessly overwhelmed by content and just did my best to touch on a couple fun things with him. But, the rich tapestry of Frank's life does not fit easily into a 20 minute conversation – so I'm going to fill in some of the blanks here. Frank was born, ironically in Munich Germany, where he would eventually return to win the Gold Medal in the marathon at the 1972 Olympics. His Father was a physician in the army. Frank grew up in a troubled home in upstate New York. He started running to get away from an abusive father. Running gave him the freedom we all know and love. To get him away from his father, his mother arranged to have him sent to a prep school in Massachusetts where he was given the space to expand his running talents. He went on to run at Yale for his undergraduate and won a number of NCAA titles. He moved on to Gainesville Florida to study for his law degree – all the while training and racing at an elite level. The thing about Franks journey in the 70's was that he showed up at all the marathon runner hotspots with all the legends. He trained with that famous Florida track club with Jeff Galloway and crew. He was in Oregon with Prefontaine. Frank taught Steve how to Ski. Frank was with Steve before he was killed. Frank won the elite Fukuoka Marathon . He was the #1 ranked marathon runner in the USA for 5 straight years and in the world for 3. He won the gold medal at the Munich Olympics in 1972. You may not remember 1972, but this was the Olympics where the world learned about terrorism. A crew of Palestinians broke into athlete's village and held the Israeli Olympic team hostage, murdering some of them. Frank was sleeping on the balcony and heard the gunshots. Coming full circle, Frank was right there on Boylston Street in Boston in 2013 when the bombs went off. He won the silver medal in the 1976 games losing to an unknow East German athlete, who most likely was a drug cheat. Frank has become instrumental in removing drugs from the Olympics – a battle that still rages. Through all this he trained himself with an uncanny mixture of speedwork and volume. He managed to stay healthy and race across 100+ mile weeks for a decade. Frank eventually ended up in Boulder where he was the founder of the iconic Boulder Boulder race. He's an amazing athlete, a humble, kind and generous guy and I'm sure I'll be talking to him again. He even has an IMDB page for his roles in several movies! Great guy, full life, enjoyed meeting him. … What's going on in my world? I'm still training for the Flying Pig in May. My knee is still a mess, but I'm enjoying when I can. I try to get Ollie out, but the weather has been horrific and I'm at the point in my life where I see less and less merit in unnecessary misery. Hey – a quick heads up – did you see Steve Runner is podcasting again? Yeah – Pheddipidations is back from the dead. And it's not the angry political Steve. It's the old runner Steve. Give it a resubscribe and listen. It's good to hear his rational voice. I did manage to get a couple of great training runs out in the woods. We got a cold snap right after a heavy snow. With the pandemic traffic in my woods the trail was packed down and hard and great for running. I got out and it was great. I remembered some of the joy I used to feel being out alone in the woods with the dog. The cold, crisp air and the packed trail. Really good. I've been getting beaten up fairly well with my new role at work. But I'm liking it. I just focus on blocking the time and doing the work. I'm at a point in my career where I don't have to worry about failure and that frees me up to be creative. Makes the work an ecstasy versus a chore. And that's the secret, my friends. Remember the gift. On with the show. About Zero ZERO — The End of Prostate Cancer is the leading national nonprofit with the mission to end prostate cancer. ZERO advances research, improves the lives of men and families, and inspires action. Link to my ZERO page: (for Donations) … I'll remind you that the RunRunLive podcast is ad free and listener supported. What does that mean? It means you don't have to listen to me trying to sound sincere about Stamps.com or Audible.. (although, fyi, my MarathonBQ book is on audible) We do have a membership option where you can become a member and as a special thank you, you will get access to member's only audio. There are book reviews, odd philosophical thoughts, zombie stories and I curate old episodes for you to listen to. I recently added that guy who cut off is foot so he could keep training and my first call with Geoff Galloway. “Curated” means I add some introductory comments and edit them up a bit. So anyhow – become a member so I can keep paying my bills. … The RunRunLive podcast is Ad Free and listener supported. … Section one – Skipped Voices of reason – the conversation Farnk Shorter – Marathon Legend Running career Shorter first achieved distinction by winning the 1969 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) six mile run title during his senior year at Yale. He won his first U.S. national titles in 1970 in the three mile and six mile events. He also was the U.S. national six mile/10,000 meter champion in 1971, 1974, 1975 and 1977. After graduating from Yale, Shorter chose to pursue a Doctor of Medicine degree at the University of New Mexico. However, he dropped out after six weeks after classes began to impact his training regime. Soon, he moved to Florida to study for a Juris Doctor degree at the University of Florida in Gainesville because of the excellence of the environment and the opportunity to train with Jack Bacheler as members of the Florida Track Club (FTC), founded by Jimmy Carnes, then the head coach of the Florida Gators track and field team.[10] Bacheler was regarded as America's best distance runner, having qualified for the finals of the 5,000-meter race at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.[11] The FTC's core nucleus of Shorter, Bacheler and Jeff Galloway qualified for the 1972 Olympics and their success made Gainesville the Mecca of distance running on the East Coast in the early 1970s.[12] Shorter won the U.S. national cross-country championships four times (1970–1973). He was the U.S. Olympic Trials champion in both the 10,000-meter run and the marathon in both 1972 and 1976. He also won both the 10,000-meter run and the marathon at the 1971 Pan American Games. Shorter was a four-time winner of the Fukuoka Marathon (1971–1974), generally recognized as the most prestigious marathon in the world at that time and held on a very fast course. His career best of 2:10:30 was set at that race on December 3, 1972. Several months later, on March 18, 1973, Shorter won the elite Lake Biwa Marathon in 2:12:03. He won the prestigious 7-mile Falmouth Road Race on Cape Cod in 1975 and 1976 and Atlanta's 10-kilometer Peachtree Road Race in 1977. Shorter achieved his greatest recognition in the marathon, and he is the only American athlete to win two medals in the Olympic marathon.[13] At the Munich Games—which coincidentally is Shorter's place of birth— he finished fifth in the 10,000-meter final, breaking the American record for the event that he had established in his qualifying heat.[8] A few days later, he won the gold medal in the marathon. This ultimate achievement was marred by an impostor, West German student Norbert Sudhaus,[14] who ran into Olympic Stadium ahead of Shorter. Shorter was not bothered by the silence from the crowd who had been duped into thinking that he was running for the silver medal. Shorter was confident that he was going to win the gold medal because he knew that no competing runner had passed him.[15] He received the James E. Sullivan Award afterwards as the top amateur athlete in the United States.[8] At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Shorter dropped out of the 10,000 meters in order to concentrate exclusively on the marathon, winning the silver medal in the marathon[8] and finishing behind previously unheralded Waldemar Cierpinski of East Germany.[16] Cierpinski was later implicated as a part of the state-sponsored doping program by East German track and field research files uncovered by Werner Franke at the Stasi headquarters in Leipzig in the late 1990s. There were suspicions about other East German athletes during the Montreal Olympics, including the East German women's swimming team led by Kornelia Ender; the East German women won eleven of the thirteen events.[17] From 2000 to 2003, Shorter was the chairman of the United States Anti-Doping Agency, a body that he helped to establish.[18] Shorter was featured as a prominent character, played by Jeremy Sisto, in the 1998 film Without Limits. The film follows the life of Shorter's contemporary, training partner, Olympic teammate and sometime rival, Steve Prefontaine.[18] Shorter was the next to last person to see Prefontaine alive before he died in an automobile accident. Shorter was inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame in 1984, the USA National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1989,[8] and the National Distance Running Hall of Fame in 1998. A long-time resident of Boulder, Colorado, Shorter co-founded the Bolder Boulder in 1979. The annual 10k race is a popular Memorial Day event, which culminates with a tribute to U.S. Armed Forces at Folsom Field at the University of Colorado. A life-size bronze statue of Shorter stands outside the stadium. Section two –Varmint - Outro Ok my friends that's episode 4-474 of the RunRunLive Podcast. I still plan to limp through the Flying Pig marathon but my knee is not responding as I hoped it would. It is weak, unstable and painful. Basically, well I want to use a family unfriendly word here, but let's just say it's not good. Frank Shorter ran the 1976 Olympic Marathon with a bad knee and came in 2nd. Oy! I have been having a lot of trouble finding the time and inspiration to write and produce this show. I know it's getting stale, and you deserve better than that. I'm considering ways to make it less of a lift for me. Maybe break the sections up into individual, shorter shows that I could drop more frequently. Maybe find a theme. Or create multiple short shows from the various themes I cover here. Then you could pick and choose what you wanted to listen to. We'll see how it goes. One step at a time. I'm heading down to Dallas tomorrow morning and I just realized it's time change weekend here. Meaning I'm going to have to roll out of bed at 3:30 AM body-clock time to start a long week with a nice dose of jetlag. Heard an interesting comment on a call this week. We were prepping for a executive meeting with one of our customers. There were two senior executives from our side. They were talking about a big deal that needed to close at this customer. One of the Execs said to the other “You need to make it personal.” That struck me. After all the professionalism is sorted out every business transaction is personal. I've always tried to avoid that. Making business personal. But you can't. It's personal whether you want it to be or not. But making it personal allows you to leverage empathy – so it's not necessarily a bad thing. How about that for a thing to try this week? Make it personal. And I'll see you out there. And I'll see you out there. MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Rachel -> Coach Jeff ->
The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-474 – Frank Shorter (Audio: link) audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4474.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Chris' other show à Intro: Hello my long suffering friends. How are you? Well it's been a busy two weeks since the last time we chatted. And I truly missed. I get lonely. I worry. Where have you been? How do we know you're not dead in a ditch? Today I'm going to mess with the format again. I managed to write a really funny piece about varmints that I'm going to perform for you, but it came out at 2000 + words so I'm going to push that after the interview, skip section one and use the intro here to talk about our guest. Frank Shorter. Yes that Frank Shorter. It was one of those interviews where I was hopelessly overwhelmed by content and just did my best to touch on a couple fun things with him. But, the rich tapestry of Frank's life does not fit easily into a 20 minute conversation – so I'm going to fill in some of the blanks here. Frank was born, ironically in Munich Germany, where he would eventually return to win the Gold Medal in the marathon at the 1972 Olympics. His Father was a physician in the army. Frank grew up in a troubled home in upstate New York. He started running to get away from an abusive father. Running gave him the freedom we all know and love. To get him away from his father, his mother arranged to have him sent to a prep school in Massachusetts where he was given the space to expand his running talents. He went on to run at Yale for his undergraduate and won a number of NCAA titles. He moved on to Gainesville Florida to study for his law degree – all the while training and racing at an elite level. The thing about Franks journey in the 70's was that he showed up at all the marathon runner hotspots with all the legends. He trained with that famous Florida track club with Jeff Galloway and crew. He was in Oregon with Prefontaine. Frank taught Steve how to Ski. Frank was with Steve before he was killed. Frank won the elite Fukuoka Marathon . He was the #1 ranked marathon runner in the USA for 5 straight years and in the world for 3. He won the gold medal at the Munich Olympics in 1972. You may not remember 1972, but this was the Olympics where the world learned about terrorism. A crew of Palestinians broke into athlete's village and held the Israeli Olympic team hostage, murdering some of them. Frank was sleeping on the balcony and heard the gunshots. Coming full circle, Frank was right there on Boylston Street in Boston in 2013 when the bombs went off. He won the silver medal in the 1976 games losing to an unknow East German athlete, who most likely was a drug cheat. Frank has become instrumental in removing drugs from the Olympics – a battle that still rages. Through all this he trained himself with an uncanny mixture of speedwork and volume. He managed to stay healthy and race across 100+ mile weeks for a decade. Frank eventually ended up in Boulder where he was the founder of the iconic Boulder Boulder race. He's an amazing athlete, a humble, kind and generous guy and I'm sure I'll be talking to him again. He even has an IMDB page for his roles in several movies! Great guy, full life, enjoyed meeting him. … What's going on in my world? I'm still training for the Flying Pig in May. My knee is still a mess, but I'm enjoying when I can. I try to get Ollie out, but the weather has been horrific and I'm at the point in my life where I see less and less merit in unnecessary misery. Hey – a quick heads up – did you see Steve Runner is podcasting again? Yeah – Pheddipidations is back from the dead. And it's not the angry political Steve. It's the old runner Steve. Give it a resubscribe and listen. It's good to hear his rational voice. I did manage to get a couple of great training runs out in the woods. We got a cold snap right after a heavy snow. With the pandemic traffic in my woods the trail was packed down and hard and great for running. I got out and it was great. I remembered some of the joy I used to feel being out alone in the woods with the dog. The cold, crisp air and the packed trail. Really good. I've been getting beaten up fairly well with my new role at work. But I'm liking it. I just focus on blocking the time and doing the work. I'm at a point in my career where I don't have to worry about failure and that frees me up to be creative. Makes the work an ecstasy versus a chore. And that's the secret, my friends. Remember the gift. On with the show. About Zero ZERO — The End of Prostate Cancer is the leading national nonprofit with the mission to end prostate cancer. ZERO advances research, improves the lives of men and families, and inspires action. Link to my ZERO page: (for Donations) … I'll remind you that the RunRunLive podcast is ad free and listener supported. What does that mean? It means you don't have to listen to me trying to sound sincere about Stamps.com or Audible.. (although, fyi, my MarathonBQ book is on audible) We do have a membership option where you can become a member and as a special thank you, you will get access to member's only audio. There are book reviews, odd philosophical thoughts, zombie stories and I curate old episodes for you to listen to. I recently added that guy who cut off is foot so he could keep training and my first call with Geoff Galloway. “Curated” means I add some introductory comments and edit them up a bit. So anyhow – become a member so I can keep paying my bills. … The RunRunLive podcast is Ad Free and listener supported. … Section one – Skipped Voices of reason – the conversation Farnk Shorter – Marathon Legend Running career Shorter first achieved distinction by winning the 1969 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) six mile run title during his senior year at Yale. He won his first U.S. national titles in 1970 in the three mile and six mile events. He also was the U.S. national six mile/10,000 meter champion in 1971, 1974, 1975 and 1977. After graduating from Yale, Shorter chose to pursue a Doctor of Medicine degree at the University of New Mexico. However, he dropped out after six weeks after classes began to impact his training regime. Soon, he moved to Florida to study for a Juris Doctor degree at the University of Florida in Gainesville because of the excellence of the environment and the opportunity to train with Jack Bacheler as members of the Florida Track Club (FTC), founded by Jimmy Carnes, then the head coach of the Florida Gators track and field team.[10] Bacheler was regarded as America's best distance runner, having qualified for the finals of the 5,000-meter race at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.[11] The FTC's core nucleus of Shorter, Bacheler and Jeff Galloway qualified for the 1972 Olympics and their success made Gainesville the Mecca of distance running on the East Coast in the early 1970s.[12] Shorter won the U.S. national cross-country championships four times (1970–1973). He was the U.S. Olympic Trials champion in both the 10,000-meter run and the marathon in both 1972 and 1976. He also won both the 10,000-meter run and the marathon at the 1971 Pan American Games. Shorter was a four-time winner of the Fukuoka Marathon (1971–1974), generally recognized as the most prestigious marathon in the world at that time and held on a very fast course. His career best of 2:10:30 was set at that race on December 3, 1972. Several months later, on March 18, 1973, Shorter won the elite Lake Biwa Marathon in 2:12:03. He won the prestigious 7-mile Falmouth Road Race on Cape Cod in 1975 and 1976 and Atlanta's 10-kilometer Peachtree Road Race in 1977. Shorter achieved his greatest recognition in the marathon, and he is the only American athlete to win two medals in the Olympic marathon.[13] At the Munich Games—which coincidentally is Shorter's place of birth— he finished fifth in the 10,000-meter final, breaking the American record for the event that he had established in his qualifying heat.[8] A few days later, he won the gold medal in the marathon. This ultimate achievement was marred by an impostor, West German student Norbert Sudhaus,[14] who ran into Olympic Stadium ahead of Shorter. Shorter was not bothered by the silence from the crowd who had been duped into thinking that he was running for the silver medal. Shorter was confident that he was going to win the gold medal because he knew that no competing runner had passed him.[15] He received the James E. Sullivan Award afterwards as the top amateur athlete in the United States.[8] At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Shorter dropped out of the 10,000 meters in order to concentrate exclusively on the marathon, winning the silver medal in the marathon[8] and finishing behind previously unheralded Waldemar Cierpinski of East Germany.[16] Cierpinski was later implicated as a part of the state-sponsored doping program by East German track and field research files uncovered by Werner Franke at the Stasi headquarters in Leipzig in the late 1990s. There were suspicions about other East German athletes during the Montreal Olympics, including the East German women's swimming team led by Kornelia Ender; the East German women won eleven of the thirteen events.[17] From 2000 to 2003, Shorter was the chairman of the United States Anti-Doping Agency, a body that he helped to establish.[18] Shorter was featured as a prominent character, played by Jeremy Sisto, in the 1998 film Without Limits. The film follows the life of Shorter's contemporary, training partner, Olympic teammate and sometime rival, Steve Prefontaine.[18] Shorter was the next to last person to see Prefontaine alive before he died in an automobile accident. Shorter was inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame in 1984, the USA National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1989,[8] and the National Distance Running Hall of Fame in 1998. A long-time resident of Boulder, Colorado, Shorter co-founded the Bolder Boulder in 1979. The annual 10k race is a popular Memorial Day event, which culminates with a tribute to U.S. Armed Forces at Folsom Field at the University of Colorado. A life-size bronze statue of Shorter stands outside the stadium. Section two –Varmint - Outro Ok my friends that's episode 4-474 of the RunRunLive Podcast. I still plan to limp through the Flying Pig marathon but my knee is not responding as I hoped it would. It is weak, unstable and painful. Basically, well I want to use a family unfriendly word here, but let's just say it's not good. Frank Shorter ran the 1976 Olympic Marathon with a bad knee and came in 2nd. Oy! I have been having a lot of trouble finding the time and inspiration to write and produce this show. I know it's getting stale, and you deserve better than that. I'm considering ways to make it less of a lift for me. Maybe break the sections up into individual, shorter shows that I could drop more frequently. Maybe find a theme. Or create multiple short shows from the various themes I cover here. Then you could pick and choose what you wanted to listen to. We'll see how it goes. One step at a time. I'm heading down to Dallas tomorrow morning and I just realized it's time change weekend here. Meaning I'm going to have to roll out of bed at 3:30 AM body-clock time to start a long week with a nice dose of jetlag. Heard an interesting comment on a call this week. We were prepping for a executive meeting with one of our customers. There were two senior executives from our side. They were talking about a big deal that needed to close at this customer. One of the Execs said to the other “You need to make it personal.” That struck me. After all the professionalism is sorted out every business transaction is personal. I've always tried to avoid that. Making business personal. But you can't. It's personal whether you want it to be or not. But making it personal allows you to leverage empathy – so it's not necessarily a bad thing. How about that for a thing to try this week? Make it personal. And I'll see you out there. And I'll see you out there. MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Rachel -> Coach Jeff ->
Yoel chats with Israeli Olympian Maor Tiyouri in this episode. The new series on The Jewish Health Podcast. The aim of this new series is to inspire & educate you
When We Keep Shabbat, Shabbat Protects Us There once lived a Jew named Sam Zeitlin who was an outstanding cyclist and vied to make the U.S. Olympic team. This was in the 1960's, and Sam encountered a good deal of anti-Semitism as he tried to advance in cycling. One day, he was nearly knocked off his bicycle as he was training, and somebody approached him shouting, “We'll get you next time, Jew.” Sam realized that as a Jew, he had no chance of making the U.S. Olympic team, and so he decided he would try to get to the Olympics with the Israeli team. He contacted the manager of the Israeli cyclist club and said that he could help raise the club to world class standard. They met, and Sam moved to Israel and became a very important member of the cyclist club. He worked very hard to train so he and the club could compete in the 1972 Olympics. However, during this period, he got to know several religious Jews, and eventually became friendly with a certain Rabbi in Bnei-Brak. He began learning about Jewish heritage, and before long he was wearing a kippah and tzitzit. Eventually, he became fully observant, hoping that his religious observance would not get in the way of realizing his dream of competing in the Olympics. However, the Israeli cyclist team told him that it could not accommodate him; tryouts and training sessions scheduled for Shabbat could not be moved. These were federation rules that could not be changed. Sam had already bought an airline ticket for the trip to Germany for the Olympics, but he decided to forget his dream. He was not willing to violate Shabbat for the sake of competing in the Olympics, despite the fact that this was his life's dream. Once he decided to withdraw, all the members of the cyclist team dropped out, as well. Israel sent athletes to compete in other sports, but not cycling. On the tenth day of the Munich Olympics, the Black September terrorist group broke into the complex where the Israeli Olympic team was staying, and killed eleven athletes. Sam Zeitlin and the rest of the cyclist team were spared because of his commitment to Shabbat. Although they mourned the tragic death of their fellow Israelis, they saw how Shabbat observance has the power to protect. כי אשמרה שבת קל ישמרני – when we keep Shabbat, Shabbat keeps us. Another story is told of a Syrian Jew from Mexico named Jacobo Schrem. He had a building which he was trying to sell, but the building had a lot of empty space and was not very profitable. One Friday morning, he was meeting with a prospective buyer, trying to sell the building, but the negotiations were proceeding slowly. The group that was looking into the building was scheduled to leave the city the next day, and so this was his only opportunity to close the deal. As time passed, he realized that he might not finish the deal before Shabbat. Jacobo had just recently begun attending Torah classes at night in the Aram Soba Kollel in Polanco, and had not always observed Shabbat or attended synagogue. He was not sure whether he should leave the meeting to prepare for Shabbat, or remain to close the deal. He ultimately made the courageous decision to go home, and he lost the deal. While he felt proud of his commitment to Shabbat, he could not help but wonder whether this was the right decision and worth the price. Two weeks later, on Thursday morning, September 19, 1985, a powerful earthquake struck Mexico City, killing thousands of people and destroying hundreds of buildings. In the aftermath of the quake, the Mexican government moved major corporations and agencies into the relatively few buildings that had not sustained damage. Jacobo's building was one of those buildings, and he sold it for a huge profit. Over the years, Jacobo never shared this story with anyone. But years later, at a siyum he held to celebrate the completion of his first Masechet, he told over this story to teach everybody about the blessings and rewards that result from Shabbat observance. One of the people in attendance was Rabbi Shea Deutsch, who now serves as Menahel of Yeshivat Orchot Chaim in Lakewood. Rabbi Deutsch told me that one Jacobo's sons married the daughter of Rosh Kollel. He was thus rewarded both materially and with blessings in his family. כי אשמרה שבת קל ישמרני – we only gain from observing Shabbat.
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts hop in the DeLorean and head back to 1972 with an examination of that summer's Olympic Games. Hosted by Munich on the heels of the problematic '68 affair in Mexico City, these so-called “serene” Olympics are best remembered for the Munich massacre, in which members of the Palestinian Black September Organization took nine members of the Israeli Olympic team hostage, after murdering two more. All nine hostages were killed shortly thereafter. The attack itself and how/why it unfolded as it did, media coverage and the decision to continue the Games in the wake of the tragedy are the focus. Also highlighted is the highly controversial gold medal game in men's basketball between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, as well as looks at two of the biggest individual stars of the games, American swimmer Mark Spitz and Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut. But first come an Olympic triathlon of rants, where Zak runs the duck test on the Russian Olympic Committee in calling bullshit on the entire purpose, Ed spotlights the peculiarities of both the modern pentathlon and the bylaws of karate; finally Andrew documents overcoming the inanity of the NBC/Peacock schedule en route to appreciating the triumphant performances of the American men's and women's basketball teams.
Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 15-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East, and the Jewish world, from Sunday through Thursday. Today's panel comprises senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur and breaking news editor Amy Spiro, our Olympics correspondent, along with host Amanda Borschel-Dan. For the first time in over three years, the cabinet has approved the state budget. Filled with reforms and plans for the future, the budget will now go to the Knesset where it must pass in early November or the government will fall. Yesterday, all of Israel celebrated the country's second-ever Olympic gold medal, the nation's first medal in gymnastics, which was awarded to Artem Dolgopyat. What else is in store from Team Israel this week? Freedom of religion activists got a boost from Dolgopyat's mother, Angela Bilan, who explained that while her son has been in a serious relationship for three years, because only his father's side of the family is Jewish, he cannot be married in Israel. Rettig Gur explains the system and how it may soon get an update -- at the initiative of the ultra-Orthodox. Discussed articles include: Cabinet approves state budget for 1st time in 3 years in key test for government Israel's modest gold medalist: Artem Dolgopyat proves a disarming Olympic hero Artistic gymnast Artem Dolgopyat wins Israel's 2nd-ever Olympic gold Israel's Olympic gold medalist Dolgopyat: I'm already planning for Paris 2024 After trouncing by South Korea, Israeli Olympic baseball hopes hang on next game Israel's Olympic gold medalist can't marry in the country, his mother laments Facing religious reforms, some Haredim now call to separate religion and state Subscribe to The Times of Israel Daily Briefing on iTunes, Spotify, PlayerFM, Google Play, or wherever you get your podcasts. IMAGE: Artem Dolgopyat of Israel celebrates after winning the gold medal on the floor exercise during the artistic gymnastics men's apparatus final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, August 1, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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In the month of July, we are celebrating Evidence Locker's third birthday and our 150th episode. With this in mind, we decided on a Blockbuster theme. This week we look into the true crime case behind Steven Spielberg's film, Munich. Palestinian militant group Black September took nine 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team hostage during the Summer Olympics of 1972. The world watched as events unfolded, and it ended in the death of all the hostages and a German police officer, as well as five of the eight terrorists. To avenge their murders, Operation Wrath of God was born, a covert mission to take out everyone who had played a part in the Munich Massacre. For pictures and more information, join us on Facebook Want to support our podcast? Visit our page at Patreon For a full list of resources and credits visit Evidence Locker Website For all sponsor discount codes, visit this page This True Crime Podcast was researched using open source or archive materials.
While excellent newsletters on specific themes within public policy already exist, this thought letter is about frameworks, mental models, and key ideas that will hopefully help you think about any public policy problem in imaginative ways.Audio narration by Ad-Auris. India Policy Watch #1: Jabki Dimaag Khaali Hai (While The Mind Is Empty) Insights on burning policy issues in India- RSJThe sound and the fury surrounding all that’s happening in India now is quite maddening. Any kind of meaningful analysis risks drowning in it. In any case, there’s no analysis possible any more in India. There are only positions. We have fallen in love with the culture of intellectual nihilism. All arguments start with a bad faith assumption. And before you end it, you are tagged with toxic monikers and a litany of half-truths in the garb of whatboutery. And they bookend any discussion between two ‘argumentative’ Indians these days. We cannot say we didn’t see it coming. It is easy to cast democracy into a vessel that channels the passions of the majority. You can ride those passions to the levers of power. But it is another thing to govern and meet the aspirations of the demos. The easy way then to cover for failures is to continue fighting some mythical ancient regime or entrenched enemies who are undermining your efforts. This is imagined victimhood. When this becomes a political, social and cultural defence to any challenge, intellectual nihilism follows. Facts don’t matter then. Only faith does.We are in a tight spot today. To come out of it requires leadership, farsighted policymaking capabilities and a consensus on the path to nation building almost at par with the task we had on hands right after independence. This isn’t easy even with the best of intentions and capabilities at your disposal. Instead, I fear we have real constraints in thinking our way clearly through this. Acknowledging The ProblemThe economy wasn’t in a great shape going into the pandemic in April 2020. The twin balance sheet problem and the shock of demonetisation meant a modest 4-5 percent growth was beginning to look the best we could do. The national lockdown and the impact of the first wave has meant we will end up with about an eight percent decline in GDP in FY20-21. The general consensus within the government early this year was India had seen off the pandemic and a V-shaped recovery is well on its way. This second wave has set us back again. So, where does that leave us on the economy? There are a few factors to consider here:Unlike wave 1, this time the impact has been felt more directly by the consuming class. This is evident from conversations with friends and colleagues, social media posts and the case counts. People have been scarred and sentiments have taken a hit. More importantly, people will wait to get vaccinated before lowering their guards. The lessons of complacency seem to have been learnt. The talk of wave 3 and its likely impact on kids have only queered the pitch. Vaccination to about 50 percent of people looks unlikely before the end of 2021. This would mean when the wave 2 subsides, there won’t be a quick bounce back in terms of increased mobility and consumption spends. There will only be a gradual return to any kind of normalcy. Unlike last wave, this wave has impacted the hinterland. The extent of the impact is difficult to ascertain but the ground reporting from rural UP and Bihar has been heartbreaking. Rural supply chains have been disrupted and the expectation that rural economy will hold out like last year are misplaced.Much of the heavy lifting last year to support the economy was done by the RBI through monetary policy. There’s a limit to that and it seems we have reached the end of it. The fiscal room available to the government is quite limited. It is worse than last year. The fiscal deficit is the highest it has been in a long time. Yet, the government will have to come out with some kind of a stimulus soon. People are hurting. But where will the money for stimulus come from? Expect more headline management like the Rs. 20 lac crores Aatmanirbhar Bharat package announced last year.Exports could be a silver lining considering most of the developed world will be back on growth path by next quarter. The challenge is how well are our businesses (especially SMEs) positioned right now to take advantage of it. It is difficult to be an export powerhouse while simultaneously dealing with an unprecedented health crisis impacting the workforce. The consensus growth projections for FY21-22 have already been lowered from 11.5 percent to 9-9.5 percent. My fear is this will slide down to 7-7.5 percent range by the time we have seen through wave 2. Since this wave is unique to India in terms of spread and impact, our economic performance, deficit and the future prospects will be an outlier compared to most of the world in FY22. We will have to keep an eye on the sovereign rating given our circumstances. There’s a danger lurking there. Given these, it is evident we will need to bring together our best minds across government, administration and industry to navigate these waters. But that will require to acknowledge we got things wrong to reach here. This isn’t likely going by precedence. It will also be interesting to see how Indian industry and capital responds to this. Of course, the public stance, like always, will be cheerleading the dispensation. But it is no secret that private capital investment has been stagnant for most of last decade. Indian capital doesn’t put its money where its mouth is. It is far too clever for that. As 4-6 percent growth (if that) becomes the accepted norm for this decade, it is likely that Indian industry and the wealthy will try and conserve what they have instead of taking risks. There are other second order social implications that might arise out of another ‘lost decade’ of tepid growth that Indian capital will be worried about. They might continue to prefer a ‘strong leader’ given these concerns. It is also clear now that any recovery will be K-shaped to begin with. The formal, organised and larger players will consolidate their gains and grow at the expense of the informal and smaller players. This trend has been seen over the past 12 months. The stock market, divorced from the real economy, already knows it and it is reflected in the performance of the benchmark indices that represent 30-50 top companies. This structural shift to an oligopoly in most sectors is evident. This will allow the state to control capital more easily as markets turn less free. In any case, the benefits of aligning to the political dispensation are already evident in the list of richest Asians. So, the industry will be more than willing to be subservient. These aren’t the best of conditions for releasing the animal spirits of enterprise. The Absent Media And OppositionIt isn’t difficult to foresee the challenges outlined here and to set up a policy framework to address it. There are two problems here. First, the centralised nature of governance in the current establishment precludes any acknowledgement of missteps or an honest assessment of the problems on hand. Second, the conventional outlets of holding the government to account, the opposition and the media, are mostly absent. Large sections of mainstream media are owned directly by the industry who would rather cheerlead than ask tough questions. Many in the industry and the media may even be ideologically aligned to the establishment. The opposition is fragmented with regional leaders often holding their own in the assembly elections. But any kind of national mobilisation to politically counter the party in power is not in sight. The PM continues to be popular despite the wave 2 failings. The political genius of the PM has been to dissolve the natural fragments of region, caste, or even, language, that precluded over-centralisation of power in the past. The Lok Sabha elections will continue to be presidential in nature for the foreseeable future. So, any real political opposition will need to contend with this. The other source of opposition, class, has disappeared from Indian politics for long. Students’ unions are politicised along party lines and have no independent line of thinking, trade unions have no teeth and farmers movement is splintered despite the protests we see against farm laws. The near absence of media and opposition has meant policy debates and discussions have suffered. There’s complacency and lack of rigour in policy making as has been evident in the past many years. There is no price to be paid for policy failure. And any failure is quickly papered over with some kind of narrative.The Surrender Of ElitesLastly, let’s turn to the elites. The section that often tends to have a disproportionate share of voice in the polity. The institutional elite have either been co-opted or they have thrown in the towel in the face of an overwhelmingly popular establishment. Universities, courts, bureaucracy, police and what’s referred to as civil society can no longer be counted on to be independent voices that will uphold the tradition of the institutions they serve. This isn’t a first in our history. But, remember, the last time it happened the consequences were terrible. That should, therefore, give us no solace. The other set of elites are those who have provided intellectual scaffolding to this dispensation over the years. Loosely put, this group would identify themselves ideologically as either conservatives or belonging to the right. I have articulated their grouses in earlier editions. It runs the spectrum - the resentment with a liberal constitution that was not rooted in our civilisational values, the anger at the radical act of forgetting our history that the Nehruvian elites thrust upon us in their wisdom, the overbearing state and the failures of leftist economic policies during the 60s-80s that held us back and the deracinated deep state (“Lutyens Delhi”) that apparently controlled the levers of power regardless of who was in power. In the past seven years it should have been clear to them these grouses aren’t easy to set right nor will their elimination lead to any kind of great reawakening in the masses. The intellectual articulation of a political philosophy that’s suited to the modern world while addressing these grouses isn’t clear yet. Instead, what we have on our hands are thuggish attempts at settling imaginary scores and continuing degradation of scientific temper in the hope it will usher in a modern version of our glorious past. If these intellectuals want the supposed UP model of today to be what India of tomorrow should look like, good luck with that ending well. I have been reading the great Hindi essayist, historian and scholar, Hazari Prasad Dwivedi over the past few months. Dwivedi was an intellectual powerhouse who was deeply rooted in the Indic tradition and philosophy. A great Sanskrit linguist who spent a lifetime studying the Sastras and writing beautiful expositions on them, Dwivedi should be more widely read today. His essays, their themes and his arguments, betray no trace of western enlightenment influence. He had a clear-eyed view of the richness of our heritage and its relevance in the modern age. In his anthology, Vichar Aur Vitark (Thoughts And Debates), there’s an essay titled ‘Jabki Dimaag Khaali Hai’ (“While The Mind Is Empty”) published by Sachitra Bharti in 1939, which is often quoted by Pratap Bhanu Mehta to make a specific point about our current obsession with our glorious past and the identity crisis among Hindus. As Mehta writes:This identity is constituted by a paradoxical mixture of sentiments: a sense of lack, Hinduism is not sure what makes it the identity that it is; a sense of injury, the idea that Hindus have been victims of history; a sense of superiority, Hinduism as the highest achievement of spirituality and uniquely tolerant; a sense of weakness, Hindus are unable to respond to those who attack them; a sense of uncertainty, how will this tradition make its transition to modernity without denigrating its own past; and finally, a yearning for belonging, a quest for a community that can do justice to them as Hindus. This psychic baggage can express itself in many ways, sometimes benign and creative, sometimes, malign and close minded. But these burdens cast their unmistakable shadow upon modern Hindu self-reflection, often leading to a discourse on identity that Dwivedi memorably described as one, where the ‘‘heart is full and the mind empty (dil bhara hai aur dimag khali hai).’’ The passions that have been fanned to animate the majority cannot lead to nation building in the absence of intellectual rigour and clear reasoning. The problem is once that genie of passions is out, it is impossible to put it back in the bottle. Its demand will never be sated.I will leave you with an extract from Dwivedi’s essay (my mediocre English translation follows):My translation:But when the mind is empty while the heart is brimming over, there cannot be any possibility of an engaging exposition of the Sastras. Otherwise, there isn't any reason to be anxious about a race whose writ once ran from the shores of River Vaksh in Central Asia to the end of South Asia, the imprint of whose culture transcended the Himalayas and the great oceans and whose mighty fleet once controlled the waters of the eastern seas. It is true that this mighty race is a pale shadow of itself today. The sons of Panini (the great Sanskrit grammarian from Gandhara) sell dry fruits and heeng on streets today while the descendants of Kumarjiva are involved in the basest of trades. Yet, there's a hope that there must be a semblance of that glory still running in the veins of this race. And it will show its true colour some day. But then I wonder. After all, a tree is known by the fruits it bears. The state of disrepair that the Hindu society is in today must trace its cause to that once glorious civilisation of the past. How can that tree be so glorious when its fruits we see all around today are so terrible?There was indeed an age of prosperity for this race. That is true. Those verdant streets of Ujjain, the gurgling sounds of river Shipra and the celestial music of the kinnaras still echo in the Himalayan valleys - these memories remain fresh in our minds. And amidst these riches, our eyes can clearly see the attack of the Huns and the defiant stand of the Aryans, the numerous rise and fall of empires, the thunderous roar of Vikramaditya. The glories of Magadh and Avanti were unparalleled. Its elite could wield the sword and the brush with equal felicity. They could fight fire with fire and let their hair down when they wanted. But things changed. The elite suppressed the masses; they paralysed the polity. The chasm within the society began to open up. The elites immersed themselves in the pleasures of the material world while the masses were tied down to scriptures and their orthodoxy. One took refuge in merriment while the other was often lampooned for their outdated beliefs. And the fissure in the Hindu society widened further. Over the centuries every invader used this to their advantage - Huns, Sakas, Tartars, Muslims and the British. They divided us further and they ruled. Today that Pathan dry fruit seller asked me if that beautiful house belonged to a Muslim or a Christian and could scarcely believe it could be that of a Hindu. And I wondered if the chasm continues widening everyday. But then the Sastras don't bother about such identity issues of the Hindus and I lack the courage to intellectually confront this issue any further. When the mind is empty and the heart full of passion, isn't it enough to have even mentally contended with the existential conundrum of our race. Matsyanyaaya: A Cautionary Tale on the ‘Israel Model’Big fish eating small fish = Foreign Policy in action— Pranay KotasthaneFull diplomatic ties between India and Israel were established quite late in 1992. Even so, this bilateral relationship has quickly grown into a robust and multi-dimensional partnership over the last three decades. This is a welcome development. Israel’s technological prowess finds many admirers in India. In casual conversations, this admiration often escalates into a desire for emulation — "see how they tackled terrorism, we should learn from it", or "we should also have mandatory military service, like Israel does", or "why can't India kill terrorists in Pakistan the way Israel assassinates Iranian nuclear scientists?" The latest round of Israel-Palestine conflict should, however, force uncritical admirers of the Israel model to update their Bayesian priors. A side note before I begin: what model Israel adopts is its own problem and I have neither the competence nor the inclination to challenge its approach. Every conflict today has its own set of initial conditions and a long and bloody path-dependent history. I am only interested cautioning people who seek to transpose Israel’s strategy to an Indian context. Here are my four strategic insights from the Indian perspective for those in awe of the 'Israel Model'.#1 Force alone cannot end insurgenciesEven an overwhelming superiority in force structure is insufficient for ending insurgencies. The US experience in Afghanistan and the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict both demonstrate that insurgencies are not easy to dislodge. Neither the Iron Dome nor the ‘Mother of all Bombs’ can fully deter an insurgent force from retaliating in the future. Force can, at best, modulate terrorism but it can't end insurgencies. Ending insurgencies also requires co-opting rival elites and making compromises with insurgent factions. More the disproportional use of force, more elusive such dealmaking becomes. #2 Assassinating terrorists can be both ineffective and high-costFed on a diet of Hollywood movies, the assassination programmes of Mossad and Shin Bet are admired by many people in India. Every terrorist attack in India raises one question: if Israel can kill Iranian nuclear scientists, why can’t India kill the likes of Hafiz Saeed? This romanticisation of an extensive assassination programme misses the fact that such operations have often been strategically ineffective. Praveen Swami’s take in MoneyControl on Israel’s assassination programme highlights this point well:“From 1971, when a new Palestinian resistance emerged in the West Bank and Gaza, both targeted assassination and sometimes-indiscriminate civilian killing were deployed on a growing scale. Forty-man covert assassination squads, code-named Rimon, or Pomegranate received target lists from Israel’s internal intelligence service, Shin Bet for execution.The killings formed the backdrop to the rise of terrorism, culminating in the savage massacre of Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich in 1972. Mossad responded by unleashing Operation Wrath of God—arguably the best known of all its efforts—which, over the course of twenty years, used covert teams to target their alleged killers across Europe and the Middle-East.Leaving ethics aside, the gains from Israel’s tactics are controversial: Rimon’s killings didn’t deter the outbreak of the First Intifada in 1987; indeed, it could be argued to have radicalised an entire generation. Even leadership-decapitation operations, like the 1988 assassination of Palestine Liberation Organisation second-in-command Khalil al-Wazir, did little to change the course of history. Arguably, Israel’s anti-PLO operations only served to open the way for more dangerous Islamist groups.”Another unintended and yet anticipated consequence of such an approach is the potential of domestic spillover. If a State repeatedly uses assassination against State enemies, how long before it becomes an acceptable method against domestic anti-national ‘enemies’ ?A key cognitive dissonance is at the centre of democratic statecraft — in the amoral world of international relations, the grammar of power applies while in a liberal domestic realm, rule of law explicitly restrains the primacy of power. This delicate balance is tougher to achieve in a State with an extensive assassination programme. A secondary consequence is that conflicting parties become incapable of compromise and dialogue and resort to acts that further aggravate the situation.#3 People matter more than territoryThe Israel-Palestine conflict is a visceral conflict over a piece of land. Such is its history and deep-seated animosity that today, even localised fights over pieces of neighbourhood land have the potential to trigger a full-scale arms exchange. The lesson for India is that the desire for territorial integrity should not override the primary goal of peace and prosperity for all Indians. Take the instance of India’s land border with Bangladesh. In the 2015 Land Boundary Agreement, India gave away more land than it got back from Bangladesh. In a strict sense, India’s territorial integrity was violated. And yet, it was a prudent decision because, among other things, it put an end to the abomination called a third-order enclave — a piece of India within a piece of Bangladesh within a piece of India within Bangladesh. The hitherto uncertainty over the border had led to a denial of basic services to Indians in such enclaves.#4 Excessive use of force is counterproductive in the Information Age Despite its clout, the international narrative has gone against Israel over the past month. International coverage has portrayed Israel as the aggressor. The armed attacks by Israel were broadcasted widely and the bloodied faces of Palestinians led many countries to pressurise Israel for a ceasefire. The key lesson here for India is that information age conflicts will be global by default. In the Industrial Age, state suppression could be covered up; that’s no longer the case in radically networked communities. State use of force against non-combatants is almost certain to receive instant condemnation from other countries. This further calls for prudence in using force.In sum, there’s a lot to be gained for both sides from a stronger India-Israel partnership. But a blindfolded emulation of the Israel Model will do far more harm than good.India Policy Watch #2: Vaccine Inequity Insights on burning policy issues in India- Pranay KotasthaneVaccine inequity — you are going to be hearing a lot of over the next few months. It is a hydra-headed term being used in a variety of contexts — some make sense and others don’t. Let’s explore all its facets.#1 Vaccine inequity in the international relations contextCanada, UK, EU and other rich countries are hoarding vaccines for its citizens. Citing inequity, repeated calls have been made by concerned citizens, groups, and WHO for releasing these hoarded doses.However, equity is orthogonal to the amoral world of international relations. Equity presupposes morality but when the international relations operates on the principle of matsysnaaya, every country is on its own. Calls for vaccine equity then may well make some countries donate a few token doses from their hoarded stock to ward off future criticism but it is unlikely to cause a significant shift in national stances. Instead of asking for vaccine equity, appealing to national interest will work better. At present, India is perhaps not in a position to cause pain to a state that doesn’t offload its excess supply. But it can definitely promise to deliver benefits to countries that do. A lowering of tariffs on some goods or conceding on a less-important point in a trade negotiation in exchange of vaccine donations, has higher chances of securing vaccines from abroad.#2 Inter-state vaccine inequityState-wise allocations have also come under fire on the grounds of vaccine inequity. This is not surprising. Neither is it solvable to everyone’s satisfaction. The paradox of distribution, in Deborah Stone’s words, is that “equality often means inequality, and equal treatment often means unequal treatment. The same distribution may look equal or unequal, depending on where you focus.” Till there’s supply scarcity, equalising distribution across states is impossible. Regardless of the formula used, it will be contested on the ground of being unequal by states that don’t fare well on a particular formula. In such a case, the goal should be distribute fairly and not equally. In the current circumstances, the fairest way out is to transparently declare a formula for distribution of vaccines from the union government quota and simultaneously allow states to procure additional doses on their own. #3 Digitally inflicted vaccine inequityGetting a vaccine appointment requires you to have a phone, an internet connection, and the ability to read English, and that this is unfair to people who have access to none of them. This is the vaccine equity dimension I sympathise with most. The CEO of the National Health Authority dismissed these concerns in an Indian Express article thus:“Imagine the chaos if online appointments had not been compulsory. Vaccination centres would have been swamped by people, creating not only law-and-order issues but also risk of infections. Invoking the digital divide, as the authors do, is premature and misplaced, for the vaccination drive is evolving as it unfolds, and data is the torchlight for correcting the anomalies.”“CoWin provides for on-site registration of people without access to the internet, smartphones or even a feature phone. Out of the 18.22 crore doses administered as on May 16, only 43 per cent have been administered through online appointments, the rest availed of on-site registration. Self-registration is just one component of CoWin. On-the-spot registration, walk-ins, registration of four citizens on one mobile number and use of common service centres for assisted registration underline the inclusive nature of CoWin.”Of course, what he hasn’t mentioned is that walk-in registration and appointment is not available for 18-44 age group. It would be fair if a predetermined percentage of vaccine slots are opened up for walk-in registrations. Even cinema halls allows on-spot movie ticket bookings in addition to the online-booked ones; surely our COVID-19 vaccination drive can accommodate for this requirement. Further, some centres can be dedicated for walk-in registrations. As the supply constraint eases, this problem should become less serious.#4 Income inflicted vaccine inequityThe argument here is that since the rich, formally employed citizens can get themselves vaccinated through their employers, the employers must in turn vaccinate low-income earners for equity reasons. This is a flawed argument. A government-run channel providing free vaccines is a better alternative. Mandating the private sector to cover up whenever the government fails is morally repugnant. It is precisely the kind of thinking that has allowed us to give our omni-absent state a free pass.A reminder to end this section. Given that vaccines have positive externalities, the primary goal of the vaccination drive should be to give jabs to as many people as soon as possible. Doing so in a fair and transparent way is the best that can be done for equity. To prioritise equity over speed would be counterproductive. The option is to choose between two suboptimal outcomes. After all, confronting trade-offs is the what separates better policymaking from the worse one.HomeWorkReading and listening recommendations on public policy matters[Audio] Dr. Rajendra Prasad Memorial Lectures series, 1969: Acharya Hazari Prasad Dwivedi on Guru Nanak: Personality, Concerns and Objective. Wonderful speech combining history and philosophy. [Article] An excerpt from a promising new book on ending counterinsurgencies. Get on the email list at publicpolicy.substack.com
Peter Kurz, General Manager of the Israeli Olympic baseball team tells the story of creating this miraculous team, what it means to the discovery and re-discovery of their Jewish roots, and the significance the team has to the global Jewish world as they compete for a medal in Tokyo 2021. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Israel is a pretty small country. Just about 9 million. But for our size, we pack quite a punch. Everybody knows the ol’ Nobel Laureate spiel - Israelis have won a whopping 12 since 1966 and that’s crazy for a country of our size. It seems like we got the brains. But what about the muscle? Unlike the USA, Russia and China, we don’t have the resources to nurture younglings from an early age on their journey to become the best athletes in their field. This is why we never particularly excelled at the Olympics. There are, however, a few fields of sports in which we are really good at. Surfing and sea sports is one of them, and Judo is another. Out of 9 Olympic medals Israel has gotten in the Olympics throughout the years, 5 were in the field of Judo. Yael Arad was the pioneer, when she brought us the Silver medal in 1992, and became the first ever Israeli to win an Olympic Medal. More than a decade later, in 2004, Arik Zeevi won the Bronze medal, and made history. Since then, Arik has been inspiring generations of Martial Artists, in Israel and throughout the world. So without further ado, 2NJB are proud to have our first ever Olympic Medalist, ladies and gentlemen - Mr. Arik Zeevi.
In 2005, Steven Spielberg brought to life his historical action thriller, Munich, based on the novel Vengeance by George Jonas. Munich tells the story of the Israeli retaliation for the murder of 11 members of the Israeli Olympic squad by the Palestinian terror organization Black September during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Germany. Eric Bana leads as Avner Kaufman, a man enlisted to lead the top-secret mission of revenge, alongside Daniel Craig, Geoffrey Rush, and Ciarán Hinds. Munich opened to critical praise alongside a modest box office of $131 million off a $70 million budget. But, does it hold up? Listen in as Jon, Colin, and Brent debate the modern complexities of assassination as we try to see if this one goes for gold or never leaves the runway.
Welcome to Deeply Disturbing Things! Doing things our way since Episode One! Thank you for listening to our DIY, independent podcast. Episode 81: Moose Knuckle This week synchronicity again rears its head when we both bring topics about terrorism. Macie shares about the Munich massacre at the 1972 Olympics when the Palestinian terrorist group Black September killed eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team. Naomi discusses the 1995 sarin gas attack in the Tokyo subways. 13 people were killed and over 6000 injured in an event orchestrated by the Aum Shinrikyo cult. Until next time...
Coming up on this week’s episode, I will be exploring the 1972 Munich Massacre. On September 5 1972, during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, Palestinian militants, took eleven Israeli Olympic team members hostage, sparking off a crisis that ended in the death of all Israelis, 5 militants, and one German police officer.The Munich Massacre was an archetypal Black Swan in that: a) it was a surprise; b) it was a catastrophic event and c) in hindsight, it was entirely preventable. On this week’s episode, I’ll take you through the timeline of events, the mistakes made, and the lessons learned from the Munich Massacre.The Risktory Podcast is created, written and produced by Jacinthe A Galpin.Soundtrack (sourced from www.freemusicarchive.org)Podington Bear - Elephants on ParadeAlan Spiljak – CloudsAlan Spiljak – ForgottenAlan Spiljak – Light BlueAlan Spiljak – Empty DaysAlan Spiljak – Stars AboveAlan Spiljak – Not the EndAlan Spiljak – SunAlan Spiljak – Fantasy in My MindBibliographyhttps://www.britannica.com/event/Munich-Massacrehttps://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/02/sports/long-hidden-details-reveal-cruelty-of-1972-munich-attackers.htmlhttps://honestreporting.com/munich-massacre-1972-slaughter-israeli-athletes-german-soil/https://www.thoughtco.com/munich-massacre-1779628https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_massacrehttps://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/background-and-overview-munich-olympic-massacerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9HArGWgsm4
Coming up on this week’s episode, I will be exploring the 1972 Munich Massacre. On September 5 1972, during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, Palestinian militants, took eleven Israeli Olympic team members hostage, sparking off a crisis that ended in the death of all Israelis, 5 militants, and one German police officer.The Munich Massacre was an archetypal Black Swan in that: a) it was a surprise; b) it was a catastrophic event and c) in hindsight, it was entirely preventable. On this week’s episode, I’ll take you through the timeline of events, the mistakes made, and the lessons learned from the Munich Massacre.The Risktory Podcast is created, written and produced by Jacinthe A Galpin.Soundtrack (sourced from www.freemusicarchive.org)Podington Bear - Elephants on ParadeAlan Spiljak – CloudsAlan Spiljak – ForgottenAlan Spiljak – Light BlueAlan Spiljak – Empty DaysAlan Spiljak – Stars AboveAlan Spiljak – Not the EndAlan Spiljak – SunAlan Spiljak – Fantasy in My MindBibliographyhttps://www.britannica.com/event/Munich-Massacrehttps://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/02/sports/long-hidden-details-reveal-cruelty-of-1972-munich-attackers.htmlhttps://honestreporting.com/munich-massacre-1972-slaughter-israeli-athletes-german-soil/https://www.thoughtco.com/munich-massacre-1779628https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_massacrehttps://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/background-and-overview-munich-olympic-massacerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9HArGWgsm4
This week the girls venture outside of the US. Shel takes us to Germany with the story of the Munich massacre, a Palestinian terrorist attack on Israeli Olympic team members at the 1972 Summer Games in Munich. Kierra then heads "Down Under" with the story of two young backpackers who were viciously assaulted by a man on a deserted beach in an area known as Salt Creek. Intro music by Housewarming Party. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for more cute and twisted content.
This week we continue our coverage of the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage situation. At this point the Palestinian terrorists have taken the entire Israeli Olympic team except one who escaped and one who had been killed. We discuss the poor handling of the entire situation. The Germans refusing help from outside sources, refusing to put the games on hold until the situation could be properly handled and leading up to the bumbled rescue attempt that ended tragically. We will be back to finish this 3 parter off in 2 weeks, next week we are going to be doing a Memorial Day Special so stay tuned! Go Check us out on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/darkwindowspodcast Thanks to our sponsor Sudio Headphones, go check them out here: https://www.sudio.com/us/ and put in DARKWINDOWS15 at checkout for a 15% off discount on your purchase! Huge thank you to Age of Radio for picking us up for the network! Go checkout the shows page at https://www.ageofradio.org/darkwindows/ Find us at: https://www.instagram.com/darkwindowspod/ https://twitter.com/darkwindowspod https://www.facebook.com/Dark-Windows-363596237442341/ https://www.instagram.com/broadstone_creations/ https://www.instagram.com/speedie802/ https://www.instagram.com/kcarleton87/ Shoot us and email! darkwindowspod@gmail.com Don't forget to Check out Seth Broadstone's Sponsor! https://gameenvy.net/ and put in BROADSTONE at check out to get 10% off your entire order! Head over to Dicehead Games website and check it out, so many minis, comic books and other cool stuff! http://diceheadgames.com/ And don't forget to check us out on Megaphone.fm! check out all the other great shows there as well! Thank you to all our listeners! We literally couldn't and wouldn't do this show without all of you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
After Lisa recaps the wet and wild RRCA 10 Miler, Julie and Lisa welcome Beatie Deutsch, AKA, “Speedy Beatie,” Israel’s fastest female runner, mother of five, and an Olympic contender. Beatie talks about her training, how she conquers obstacles, and why running with an attitude of gratitude has helped her become the fastest female in Israel. Beatie can be found on Instagram @marathonmother and Facebook @BeatieDeutsch Beatie dedicates all of her miles to the charity, Beit Daniella, a residence for teens recovering from mental health challenges. To donate, check out the link in her instagram profile. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/runfartherandfaster/message
Anti-Semitism is back - though it can be argued that it never went away. The real focus of our attention should be in the United Kingdom with the rise of Jeremy Corbyn as the leader of the British Labour party and in effect the head of the Opposition. If you're not following how this story is unfolding, the details are extremely important. Look at what British leaders themselves are saying. This month, the deputy head of the British Labour party, Tom Watson, in fact declared that the British Labour party is in danger of disappearing “into a vortex of eternal shame” over the issue of anti-Semitism. So this is not just an observation made by parts of the Jewish community. It's an observation, in fact, made by the most central parts of Britain's political establishment, and the British press is not at all reluctant to report. In the Jewish community, the three main Jewish newspapers in the UK published a joint editorial that, should Jeremy Corbyn form the next government, that would pose an existential threat to British Jewry. Much of the concern about Corbyn emanates from fresh revelations of Mr. Corbin himself and his past activities. In 2009, for example, he called Hamas and Hizbullah friends. Hamas was using suicide bombers to blow up buses in the heart of Israel cities in Haifa, Tel Aviv, and of course in Jerusalem. Yet Corbyn advocated removing these organizations - Hamas and Hizbullah - from the UK's terrorism list. In 2014 Corbyn visited the cemetery in Tunisia where the leaders of Black September were buried. Remember, they were responsible for the attack on the Israeli Olympic team at the 1972 Munich Olympics, where eleven Israeli athletes were brutally butchered. Corbyn continuously campaigned to free Samar Alami and Jawad Botmeh, jailed for their role in the 1994 London bombing attacks against the Israeli Embassy in Great Britain and Jewish charity buildings. Recall both of these attacks were perpetrated on British soil and both individuals were prosecuted and found guilty in British courts. So why is Jeremy Corbyn calling this a mistrial and trying to get these two terrorists out of British prison? Corbyn is also at the heart of the debate in Britain over the definition of anti-Semitism. He's refused to accept the definition advanced by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance - the IHRA - which is, by the way, accepted by 31 countries, 24 of which are members of the European Union. Corbyn and the British Labour party reject four out of eleven examples the definition uses. He denies that accusing Jews automatically of dual loyalty is anti-Semitic. He denies that questioning the right of the Jewish people to self-determination is a form of anti-Semitism. Finally, he rejects that it is anti-Semitic to compare Israeli policy to that of the Nazis. These caveats that he and his party are advancing allow him to dilute the meaning of anti-Semitism. This kind of demonization of the Jewish people is classic anti-Semitism. If these doctrines about Israel and Jewish rights become legitimized in Great Britain, which was the fountainhead of so many democracies and states in the world, then there is a real danger that they become legitimized worldwide. And this is something that the State of Israel must firmly oppose and that Britain must not allow to happen.
Triathlete and coach Sharone Aharon faced some obstacles en route to completing his first Ironman. First of all, he’d never done any type of multisport event. He didn’t own a bike. His longest run was about 20 minutes, done as part of his training for the Israeli Secret Service. The first time he got into the pool, he swam 200 yards—then went to the locker room and threw up. Still, 10 months later, he finished the 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike, and full 26.2-mile marathon at Ironman KONA. As Aharon explained to me on this week’s episode of #WeGotGoals, getting there required a combination of confidence and naïveté. “I didn’t have a doubt in my mind that I would make it,” he says. “Look at little kids—when they fall down, they don’t think, ‘OK, I will not ever try again.’ I think that’s what happened. I was this little kid who found a toy and dedicated his entire being to that.” Plenty of challenges—he calls them “mosquitos,” because they sting but aren’t serious—popped up along the way. Still, so many things fell into place. He immediately got a sponsor, a client who supported his goals despite his lack of a track record. Even the fact that he was able to get into Kona in the first place was unusual and remarkable, he notes. All this validated what seemed like an out-of-the blue decision at the time—but eventually led to to an entirely new career. “It just came up from within, from the core of my being,” he says. “I can’t explain it.” “But at this point, it’s part of the way I coach my athletes, how to really engage with their emotions and their goals, and how to combine them together to produce great training and great racing.” Over the 20 years since that first race, Aharon’s helped thousands of athletes achieve similar ambitious goals through Well-Fit, a triathlon training program he launched in 1998. In 2009, he built a bricks-and-mortar facility. There, at 1700 W. Hubbard St., athletes can strength train (alone or in group classes), swim in Endless Pools, ride bike trainers, and run on treadmills as they train for marathons, triathlons, and other endurance events. “We took an individual sport and we made it a team sport, and we do that at Well-Fit all the time,” he says. “We have a team of people all competing individually, but because they work together, they actually achieve greater success.” Well-Fit does have an elite team, members of which tend to finish races on the podium. But you don’t have to be an experienced athlete to take advantage of all the facility offers, Aharon says. You just need a dedication and a willingness to invest in yourself. At first, “the notion was that Well-Fit is only for fast people. So I said, no … we are making people fast. That’s what we can do. What we realized is that people who come here and get the most benefit are people who care about their results,” he says. How do you go from merely aspiring toward better performances to making them happen? In our chat, Aharon spills a few clues: Don’t skip the tough stuff. Endurance athletes often think long, slow distance will get them through a race. But the top performers stay in touch with high-intensity efforts and serious strength training, too. “We do need to use those high-end muscle fibers and energy systems,” he says. Also, don’t shy away from obstacles like wind or rain during training. Unless it’s truly dangerous to be outside, embracing the elements will only prepare you for what you may face on race day. “Surrender to the training plan,” he says. But don’t make it a cookie-cutter one; if you can, invest in a personalized plan and a coach who knows your life, then put your trust in that system. Don’t overthink your strategy or your workouts—just show up and do them. That said, a coach can help you fine-tune if your life starts to go haywire. During times of personal or professional stress, adjusting your plan to do less may be the best way to perform well without breaking down your body, he notes. Embrace cutting-edge technology. Novel methods and elements keep you mentally and physically engaged. Well-Fit has a brand-new bike room, complete with individual touch screens. Athletes can tap into group classes, choose from hundreds of pre-programmed workouts, or even just stream Netflix. And in a super-cool development, they’ve installed one of the few altitude rooms in the country, which simulates what it’s like to train in the thin mountain air. Athletes who log just one to two high-intensity sessions there per week have been winning races, setting personal bests, and recovering more quickly so they can do it all over again, he notes. “You train less, and you gain more. Who doesn’t want that?” he says. In fact, Aharon’s next goal—besides carving out more time for his own training—is to make his style of altitude training more widespread and accessible everywhere. Seeing others’ success on the program only fuels him to reach higher in business and in the sport. Listen to Sharone Aharon’s episode of the #WeGotGoals podcast for more tidbits on performing your best, and check out the Well-Fit website for more about altitude training options—and all of the group’s other plans and perks. You can listen anywhere you get your podcasts (including Spotify!). If you like what you hear, please leave us a rating or a review. And stick around until the end of the episode, where you’ll hear a goal from one of you, our listeners. (Want to be featured on a future episode? Send a voice memo with a goal you’ve crushed, a goal you’re eyeing, or your best goal-getting tip to cindy@asweatlife.com.) ----- [0:00] Jeana: Welcome to We Got Goals, a podcast by asweatlife.com, on which we talk to high achievers about their goals. I'm Jeana Anderson Cohen with me I have Kristen Geil and Cindy Kuzma. Kristen: Good morning Jeana. Cindy: Good morning Jeana. Jeana: Good morning. Cindy this week you spoke with Sharone Aharon, right? Cindy: I did, Sharone is a triathlete, a coach and the owner of Well Fit Performance. Which is a pretty sweet triathlon performance here in Chicago. It's been around a long time. He's seen countless athletes achieve their goals and he's achieved some pretty cool goals himself. So it's great to talk with him. Kristen: And Cindy you talked to him about the first time he completed an Iron Man. And it sounds like he went in with a level of blissful ignorance, maybe not quite knowing what he was getting himself into. How did that work out for him? Cindy: Well, it actually worked out pretty well. In fact, he thinks that is one of the secrets of his success. He had been in this really secret service which is super fascinating and then he was a personal trainer for a while. He was kind of getting bored and not really sure what direction he was going to go next. So he just decided one day that he was going to train for an Iron Man. He didn't really know how to do it. But he just had this childlike approach to having fun and being excited about the training. Of course then he did some planning and got a little bit more serious about some of the hard work he was going to have to do along the way. But he really thinks that that ability to not even contemplate failure helped him achieve success. He went on to finish that first Iron Man and many more since. And then to build a whole incredible career around the sport today. Jeana: And today he's helping take athletes to new heights in one way or another, right Cindy? Cindy: That's also true. He has kind of taken that same approach. We talked a lot about kind of the ways, the secrets to success for all endurance athletes. And he really does think it's a combination of committing to a goal and also maintaining some of that childlike excitement and wonder. And you can see that in the way that he runs his business. He's focused, he's serious, he's intense, he has a goal but he also wants to do new things that are fun and exciting for both him and the athletes he coaches. So one of the exciting and fun things that he's done is put in an altitude room in Well Fit. I got a chance to try it out. It was a pretty cool experience basically you go in there and you work really hard for a really short period of time. And if you swap out a couple of your hard workouts on flat land for a couple workouts in that room when you're training for a triathlon or marathon, Sharone really thinks that you could do some pretty incredible things to achieve your goals. So it's kind of a cool option for athletes here in the Chicago area. And it was interesting to hear him talk about how he not only wants to use it to help athletes here. It's part of his goal to kind of share this with athletes across the country and really kind of get this idea into the sport. Jeana: It's like moving to Colorado but not actually having to. Cindy: Right, exactly. Although there are mountains painted on the wall so if you narrow your focus a little bit you can pretend. Kristen: Cindy, it sounds like he enjoys coaching not just the elite athletes at the marathon and the triathlon level but anyone who's interested in investing in themselves and in improving. How does he approach training people who are maybe not at the elite level but still want to make a difference in their training. Cindy: Yeah, I would say that he kind of treats everyone the same. Which is, you know, if you are committed to your goal and you really want to improve and invest in yourself. He's going to help you get to where you want to be. And it doesn't matter if you are on they have a Well Fit elite team and you could be a really incredible athlete on that team. Or you could be walking into Well Fit wanting to do your first triathlon. And he supports everyone kind of the same way. As long as you take yourself seriously and take your training seriously and commit to it. He's going to take a holistic approach to help you reach your goals. And my sense from my interactions with him is that if you are coached by him you're going to work hard. But you're also going to feel like you have a community there to support you and you're going to have fun while you do it. So that's really, he views all of those as important elements to success. Jeana: That's incredible Cindy, I can't wait to hear your full interview with Sharone. Hey goal-getters, don't go anywhere. If you stick around to the end of the episode you'll hear from people just like you out there achieving their goals. And here's Cindy with Sharone. [4:53] Cindy: This is Cindy Kuzma and I am here on the We Got Goals podcast with Sharone Aharon of Well Fit. And Sharone, thank you so much for joining us on the We Got Goals podcast today. Sharone: Oh, it's my pleasure. Thank you very much for inviting me. Cindy: So if we have listeners who are triathletes or other endurance athletes here in the Chicago area they probably know of Well Fit. You've been here, you've been around a long time. But for those of our listeners in other places or who don't know about it, tell me a little bit about where we are, where we're sitting today. And who comes here. Sharone: Okay. So we have been operating since '98, it started as a small venture for me trying to make a little bit of income while racing myself. Iron Man races. My sponsor decided that I'm too old to be a sponsored athlete. And they said I should go find a job. I decided to open the Well Fit training services and basically started to works with endurance athletes. Mainly at the quality workouts, we didn't really do let's go run on the lakefront in two rows and support each other this way. But we were focusing more on the bike on trainers, we started that program in '99. And run interval programs on the track which was back in, I believe it was 2000. And then swim technique level 1, 2, and 3 back in 2003. And then in 2009, we decided to open the Well Fit training center. Which was a one stop shop. Most likely the first one in the country for endurance athletes with [...] trainers, endless pool, gym floor. And recently we upgraded all that and added an altitude training facility. Cindy: Yeah, I'm really interested to talk with you about that at some point. And how that's helping athletes achieve their goals. But, you know, I can't imagine how many athletes you've helped over those years. So I know you have an incredible perspective on how they've achieved their goals. But we're here today to talk some about your goals too. So let's just go ahead and start with the first big question that we ask everyone on We Got Goals which is, Sharone, what is a goal you've achieved, why was it important to you and how did you get there. Sharone: So definitely the first Iron Man race that I've done. It was back in '98. Actually '96 I graduated from, did my masters degree in physiology. I quit my last job, a position at the Israeli secret service and then kind of was underpaid personal trainer. And decided I got to do something different. One day I woke up and I said I'm going to do the Iron Man. It's funny because I didn't really think about it much. It wasn't like oh, [...] place or anything like that. It was literally over a weekend, I thought what do I want to do. You know, I had a bunch of triathlete magazines in my apartment. Back then it was like 12 pages. You know, that's about it. And I said yeah, that's what I want to do. And probably 10 months later I was in Kona racing day. The only Iron Man those days in Hawaii. Which was amazing, unbelievable. But I can't say, I can not say that I sat down and really thought about, you know, where do I go and what do I do. And how I want my life to be and my career. It just came out from within. From the core of my being. It just popped out. I guess it was sitting there for a while. And I just didn't pay attention. And one day, boom it came out and it was like probably the best move of my life. And we're twenty years later now from my first Iron Man. And I've done so much within the sport and within the community. It just was an amazing result. Cindy: Wow, so ten months basically from when you decided this is what I'm going to do to there you are in Kona. What did that look like? I mean, if you didn't really think through logically step-by-step. How did you go about making it happen? Sharone: So, the first thing I did is I said was "Okay, I'm going to do this." The next day I went to the pool and swan 200 yards and threw up for a half an hour in the locker room. Cindy: No. [8:52] Sharone: That's a real story. I didn't own a bike and 20 minutes was my long run. Back in the secret service we were supposed to run 2k in 13 minutes. So we thought if you run for 20 minutes that's long enough. And this is where I started. I had the physiology background. I used to work at the Israeli Olympic training center and that was my schooling about. And I sat down and wrote, I think it took me 3 weeks to write a year long training program that will take me through several peaks in the season. And it's all based on a one-pager I found online. You know those days where you click on an address online and then you go to work and at 8:00 at night it finally pops up because it's so slow. That's exactly what happened. And this is how it all started. And there was few obstacles in the way. Not necessarily obstacles but I call it mosquitoes. They bite you and you pay attention to them and then you just forget about them and keep going. But the funny thing is that I didn't have a doubt in my mouth that I wouldn't make it. I was that naive but I think that's what created the success. It was unbelievable. Cindy: Okay, so where do you think that confidence came from? Maybe naivety as you say but it must have originated somewhere. Sharone: I think sometimes, we look at little kids. When they fall down, they don't think okay, I'll not ever try again. You know, I think that's what happened. I was this little kid who used to find the toy and dedicated his entire being to do that. Tell you a little story, three months later there was a seminar produced by I think it was Fleet Feet. Six hours with Mark Ellen who won Hawaii six times after seven times he tried. And he was trying to promote that the Sydney Olympics and a camp to do the actual course a day before the race. And I came to him at the end of the seminar and I said, "Hi Mark. My name is Sharone and I'd like to do the Iron Man." He said, "Great, how many years are you training?" I said, "We'll I haven't really started." And he said well maybe you want to start on the shorter ones and then go to the Olympic and then maybe the half Iron Man and then maybe three years down the road do the Iron Man. I said okay. Then the next question was I would like to have a sponsor. How do I find a sponsor? He started laughing and said "Listen, why don't you start training, get good, win some local races, some regional races, get an agent and he'll find you a sponsor." I said, "okay." The next day I had a sponsor. A full board sponsor that every [...] today will like it. Not because I was so good. I was not. But I told this story to one of my clients, and they said okay we'll sponsor you. Just like that. And I don't know what it is. I didn't even have to convince my client. Just tell the story. And things just got into place along with the entire year. It was just, I can't explain it. We would need more than just this podcast to deal with that. Cindy: I know, right. Sharone: At this point, I mean it's part of the way I coach my athletes of how to really engage with their emotions and how to really engage with their goals and how to combine the two together to produce great training and great racing. Cindy: So for you it sounds like it really started with that passion and excitement. And that belief in yourself. Sharone: Absolutely. I don't know if I had to say, okay I'm believing in myself. It just was natural. It was sitting there and it was again as I said before. I didn't think it would go a different way. And one day I got a phone call, alright you're coming. But that's a totally different story about how I got it and what happened after that. So it was fantastic. Cindy: Okay, well we can go into that story or I don't know. Tell me about some of the other mosquitoes that might have come up along the way and how you overcame them. [13:04] Sharone: You know, I'd been carrying two surgeries with my knees. And I was thinking I don't know how that's going to go. You know, I always ran with some kind of a brace on my knee. But then I decided okay, I'm in a training program. I know that with my profession you need to do swim, bike, runs, strength training. Nutrition is important. So I started incorporating basic strength training exercises into my plan three times a week. I never had to use a brace in my training since '98. Before that I had to run with a brace. So strength training just by doing it and nothing complicated. Today, we have so many different exercises and systems and the core like this and the core like that. Basic strength and conditioning program and it was phenomenal. That took care of my knee problems. You know, one of the races. I think the earlier races, I think it was second year. All of the new equipment come about. We used to race with speedos. I mean we didn't have all this fantastic gear. Wetsuits usually something that we borrowed from surfing. And not necessarily for. But in any event, you go into a race and I think it was in Saint Anthony in Florida. And all of a sudden you have a flat, but it's actually not a flat. You don't have a hole there but the extender of your wheel fell out and took the valve with it. But I forgot to put an extender on the replacement tire. So now, I have a replacement tire but I don't have an extender so there's no way to pump the tire. So here I am walking my bike back to transition and I remember my wife's face was like why are you walking. So this is something. So you learn over the time and I think a lot of the things we did back then. We created our equipment rather than bought our equipment. Because you need to be very creative about how to put stuff on the bike and you know how to carry extra nutrition. My coach was one of the best coaches in the country, Brock Fry. He coached his wife, Heather [...] who won in '98. And then he coached Peter Reed for a few years as well. And he once told me if you want to carry a lot of calories but not a lot of bottles, what you do is, you make a gel. You add more of the powder into your bottle. Said okay, I'll make a gel. So here I am making my gel and the whole day, it was 4.5 hour bike ride. My stomach is just killing me, I just don't understand what's going on. And that evening we had a phone call and he says to me, so what did you with your nutritious. I said, oh I made a gel but it really didn't sit well in my stomach. He says, what kind of a bottle did you use. I said I used a small bottle. And how many scoops did you put in? I said fifteen. He yelled from the other side of the line. My wife was in the kitchen and she heard him yelling 15! It was so funny. So this is another thing. So again you learn. Trips to Kona are phenomenal because they teach you to love wind. Up until that point I was going on lakefront. As a matter of fact, my longest ride was on the lakefront I went up and down three times. Cindy: That's a pretty long ride. Sharone: Right. And today we have other [...]. So that was an interesting day. But I was always trying to avoid the wind. And after my first trip to Kona you realize it's all wind. So that day I made the decision to fall in love with the wind. And just go against it as much as I could. And it's made a huge difference. Cindy: That's is actually an interesting point and I bet that comes up a lot with the athletes that you coach, right? You might have this goal and then you're training to reach that goal. And when you're training sometimes you make a choice that makes things a little bit more comfortable or easier in that moment but maybe that doesn't quite prepare you as well for what you're going to actually face. Sharone: Absolutely, and I think that's another thing. Talking about the being a kid personality. Go try whatever you feel, right. And sometimes, my daughter when she was in kindergarten, every time they needed to put the toys away she would run to the bathroom. You know, it's like very convenient. So, I think that's the approach I took with the wind going into this whole Chicago wind scenario. I think the more you change to rain, change weather condition, you learn a lot more. And then one of the elements that we really work hard on is really learning the races. What is the race look like, what the conditions are, what other conditions you might encounter. Maybe not, they weren't their last year. So for example, we always plan for hot weather and cold weather. You know, because that can change. I mean we had Iron Man Wisconsin, 55 and rainy and we had Iron Man Wisconsin at 95. So you have to prepare and that can change. I mean think about the marathon this year in Boston, a couple years earlier too. It was freezing cold. And this is one of the elements we really work on how to prepare for that. And we do go out in those conditions. I have a statement, I borrowed that from Hebrew, something we use in Israel. You're not made out of sugar. You've got to go out there and do it. If it's dangerous, yes of course back up. But if it's rainy, there's no reason not to train. You know, especially not in the summer here in Chicago. Cindy: Well it's interesting too because it does take that combination of both the passion and the energy and the excitement of the child plus like the logical grown up planning brain too, right? And I imagine you put those both together when you have athletes training. [18:51] Sharone: Of course. So the planning part really goes with systematic planning. I mean this is what we do with everyone. There are certain volumes that we have to hit at certain time during the season. And certain time you just reduce the volume to almost none. And focus on race pace or high intensity stuff. I think as endurance athletes we don't do enough of high intensity and we lose that element. Although high intensity intervals. I dare say cross-fit style training will work really well for us. Because we do need to use those high end muscle fibers or energy systems. My story, I used to play basketball and soccer because I really loved running after the ball. And my first year in Iron Man, I basically did times that it was hard for me to break until my third year. Again, because I came into the sport with fitness that no endurance athlete has which is the basketball fitness, the stop-and-go fitness, which is all your joint basically. And the high end energy system which you do in basketball and soccer and don't really touch in endurance sport. So I had no problem running PR every half marathon I did within a half Iron Man. Which was faster than my only half marathon times. But then you lose that and it took me, I had to spend another two years to gain that back. So just to say how important that high-end exercise and how team sports conditioning could benefit endurance athletes. And we're afraid to touch on it because it's not in the protocol. I actually talked to one of the more known coaches, run coaches in the city. And I talked to them about a certain training method. We're runners, we're not doing that. And that's I think sometimes where the problem is. When you're so tight into that modalities that you really don't gain that extra edge, I would say. That maybe have you PR'd. And we can talk about that maybe later. Cindy: Yeah, right. Sharone: About people PRing with different modalities. Cindy: Right, you get really focused on what you're doing. So for you though, how did that feel? And when you kind of started in the sport and you were doing really well because you had that fitness background. And then you realized okay, wait. And it took longer to get back to that point. How did that feel? And how did you manage that? Sharone: I think the second year of Iron Man racing was really. It wasn't devastating but I was really surprised with what happened. I had more experience, I trained more. I probably trained smarter when it comes to endurance sport. But I lost that high-end fitness. And I was frustrated and I didn't know what was going on. And then, you know, I said let's go back to and analyze what was happening. And then I start to add some stuff. So I start to add playing soccer in the off season. So I gained that fitness in the off season. As long as you don't get injured. You know, you're fine. You know, during a lot of work with a basketball. You're a lot of change in direction, not necessarily playing because that's really hard on your body. Especially as you get older, you know. But I start to incorporate those things into my plan. Not necessarily on a weekly basis. I added a lot more variety into my track workouts. A lot more variety into my bike workouts. That are not necessarily the template of the regular endurance sport. You know swim, bike and run. Cindy: So, I mean this does lead into another question I was going to ask you. Which was, you've worked with so many endurance athletes through the years. What do you see as some of the most common obstacles to endurance athletes achieving their goals. And it sounds like maybe one of them is kind of a narrow mindset or not being open to these other modalities and other ideas that might benefit them in their sport. [23:07] Sharone: I think if they start here then they're already used to it. And I think in trying to draw them in and see that for someone who has experience. And they said well if I hit these three elements, goals in swim, bike and run then I'm set. And I don't think that's usually the case. It's much harder to get them into looking at something different. And it's the same thing with the coaches. Coaches work in a certain way and they have a certain level of success. Sometimes you need to add something else into the element. For example, the first thing is strength training. More conventional. Not just working on the core and the stability. And I think this is like all of a sudden strength training because core and stability. Which is important but what about strength. Absolute strength. You know, doing a squat. You know, year round. Things like that. So again, going back if it's our athletes it's not so hard. The other element is that people need to surrender to the training plan, I call it. Not to overthink it. And sometimes just go do it. While doing it you have to be present and really absorb what you're doing. But you have to surrender to it. Many times, and that's one of the things that we did really well is that we took an individual sport and we made it a team sport. And we do it at Well Fit all the time. We have a team of people that all compete individually but because they work together rather than lonely at their basement. They actually achieve greater success. Everybody pushes each other. Everybody supports each other. One of the elements with these people is how to reduce the competitiveness during training and really focus on what you do and who you are. Get the support from your fellow athletes without mentally get devastated when this guy is so much faster than you are on the track. But you're faster than him in the swimming pool. Or things like that. The other element is how lifestyle, how your life gets in the way of your sport. And I'm sure a lot of athletes can relate to that. This morning I sat down with an athlete, phenomenal athlete. And she's preparing for the 70.3 World Championship in South Africa in a few weeks. And also life going sideways and everything is overwhelming. Everything, work and training. So we sat down and we just started to move things around. And fix and even let go of some of the workouts. You know what, you don't need that. Let's just focus on these elements and do that. And sometimes the athlete gets up from their seat and says wow. That's really helpful. And sometimes, I don't know if I'm going to be ready if we're going to do all that change, you know. I mean this is the kind of program, course we set up. Now I'm starting to take stuff out and that can be very demotivating for them. So. Cindy: But I do think that, that's so huge. And you see athletes struggle with that for sure. That you know, you're body is one system and it can absorb only so much stress from any source. Whether it's your training or your life. And that is where having a coach and as you say, kind of surrendering to the process or trusting in that individual to guide you through that and adjust. That's where that's really important, right? I'd imagine that's something that the athletes here really benefit from. Sharone: Right, and here's the thing. Going into some of the things, there's a huge trend right now of online coaching. And I think that will work only if there's a conversation. Not an email, a conversation. In my mind, a conversation between the athlete and the coach on a regular basis. Or/and seeing the athlete. And that's why I love the training facility because so many of the athletes that we coach actually are coming and training here. So even if I don't coach them per-say on every individual workout. I get to see them. I see how they look. I don't even have to talk to them. I see how they look, I see how they walk, I see how they interact. And I definitely see how their data looks like and I can that's a lot more. Many more tools that I can use in order to coach the athletes. We try to do send and forget kind of programs. I just don't believe in it. It's not that people can not. I think experienced athletes can do that, highly motivated athletes can do that. I just don't think that this is good for the beginner athletes. To have a program somewhere online and have an email every now and then. I think there's got to be more interaction to coach somebody. It's an active, not a passive event. And I think this is where the facility comes from. The other element of what we did here is secured a community. A family. We [...] changes forever. Once a Well Fitter always a Well Fitter. Whether you like it or not. Cindy: Yeah. That's great. Well no, I know that's such a huge element. As you say, it can be all three of these sports and any endurance sport can be a lonely endeavor if you're out there training for yourself, by yourself. So it is great to have that support system. For sure. So, you know, when I came here and visited you a couple weeks ago. We were chatting then too and you talked a little bit about the kind of athlete that might be a good fit to be coached by you. And the kind of athlete that makes a good Well Fit athlete. Tell me a little bit about what you're kind of looking for or what makes a good fit for someone here. Like could anyone come here and have success or are their certain qualities that make this a better kind of a facility for some people than others. [28:55] Sharone: So it's funny, many. Back I think in 2007, we created the first elite training program. It was the first of a kind in the country and what we did is we saw a lot of programs for beginners. Where you train together and you get the support, you get the coach. But there was no training program for elite athletes, people that already performed really well. I worked with the US triathlon program, initial program for a few years. And I realized that if we compare ourselves to the European. European has a huge pipeline because everything there is club teams. In the US we didn't have club teams. And the recruitment for the training program was through the universities. And usually if you're a great swimmer but not qualifying for the Olympic and you can maybe run, then we'll make you a triathlete. That was kind of the agenda. So I created the first elite training program here in Chicago. And that kind of gave us a bad name. Because here we are coming with the elite program. Which the name was Well Fit Elite which was another bad problem. Because they associate that with, you know, the other things that we do. And we're going to a race and all of a sudden Well Fit Elite take the podium for every age group. And the notion was Well Fit was only for fast people. So I said no, no, no. We are making people fast. That's what we can do. What we realized is that people that come here and get the most benefit are people that care about their results. If you just want to do one triathlon, we can help you. If you want to get the full benefit is you need to care about your performance. I think this is when you're going to get the most when you come here. Many, many times we heard that we charge too little because of how we deliver the program and what the level of the coach is. Not to say that other programs aren't good. There's definitely a fit for everything. And the more program we have the better it is for the industry. If you care about your results, you want to improve. Whether you just started or you're already this is the place for you. We always think about, what is the cutting edge training routine that will get you there. We started [...] about training on bike trainers back in '99. We did track workouts before, I believe, any other marathon program back in the early 2000s. We opened a facility before anybody else for endurance sport that encompass all of the element. That's the way I think. And then we created the community. And it's not that simple. And go back to goals, that was not necessarily my goal but that was my passion. And it become what it is today. People tell me look what you've created. I say what are you talking about. To me it just is. Cindy: Yeah. It's the building years. So you have the strength training facility here. You have the bike trainers, new bike trainers, right. Brand new Bikram. You have all of the training programs. So triathlon programs, elite and non right. And marathon training programs too. And then the altitude room. So tell me more about that and how that is helping athletes achieve their goals. [32:22] Sharone: So it's interesting, I was bored. Truly, we've been doing it for almost 20 years. And I was like okay, there's a lot of people that do that now. There's a lot of coaches and there's a lot of people with studios. And I had to do something a little different that would excite me and maybe benefit the athletes. And what we did, we updated the bike room. So now we probably have the most sophisticated bike room in the country. Where everyone has their own personal screen. Touch screen with their own programming. So they can tap into our entire, probably more than 400 workouts. And do it themselves. They can create a pool workouts that their coach give them. Whether they're a Well Fit coach or not a Well Fit coach. But then if they're bored and they want to do the group workout they press a button and they go into the system. And they see everybody around. And it's all on their private screen. And if they want to watch Netflix while they're working out they can do that too on the screen. So that was the upgrade. We took another 2,000 square foot and we put it in there. The next thing was I needed to do a game changer. And for many years, since the mid 2000s, I was thinking there was more to altitude then just going up in the mountains and training. So I did a little bit of investigation and I realized that Australia has 16 altitude training centers. England has six. US had 5. I've been to 3 and only 1 of them does something with it. So I decided that's it. And we opened the altitude training center. There's such enormous benefit to training at altitude, at high intensity. If I say one sentence about it, you train less and you gain more. I mean who doesn't want that. And since February we had many athletes train there. They are crashing their PRs on a regular basis. They're winning. They're going to a race, do an Iron Man and then a week later PR the half marathon. It's just unbelievable. I'm a little bit, oh my god. What's it, what's in the air, you know. There's a lot of science behind it. There's a lot of research behind it. And like anything else that is so great. Like for example strength training. Back in the '70s the conclusion was that strength training does not help swimmers and runners because it interferes with their coordination. Now we can't even think about doing any kind of sport without strength training. Same thing happened with altitude training, similar to altitude training. Up until I believe 2006 was the first breakthrough research. [...] the only way you can benefit is to go in the mountains. I mean, the answer I was getting from people was yeah, live high, train low. The funny thing about this is there was only one research back in '95 that proved that in Salt Lake City. It's still the gold standard. But how many people can actually do that? And we brought it to the everyday person. We brought the altitude into the everyday person. And we have workouts that are as long as 25 minutes or about an hour. We have nothing over an hour. You don't need to be there over an hour. If you actually do something over an hour in there, chances are you're not going to get as much benefit. So I'm excited as you can see. Right, so the recommend that depending on how much time you have. If you have limited time, we tell you need to be there twice a week high intensity workout. Replace the high intensity workout you have on your program right now. Don't add it to it. And then do it about, up to about a week before your race. The benefits last for about 2 to 4 weeks depending on, you know, who you are. And look at the benefits a little by doing a maintenance program. But the people, some of the people we coach here have been in the room twice a week since February. And let's just say this if you're at more than 4 weeks, go for 1 to more than 4 weeks. Just be there, use it as part of your plan. The biggest market that we're are actually getting into is mountaineers. We are getting a lot of people are going to Kilimanjaro. People that go to any kind of mountain around the world. Whether it's a big hike or a technical climb. They come here and we have a testing protocol for them. And we have a training protocol for them. Or they're just, I just want to do my own thing in the room. Cindy: Yeah, one of our co-hosts on this podcast, Kristen Geil, climbed Kilimanjaro last year. And I think she found out about the altitude room right before she was going to leave. So she's like, ahh, I didn't have time but she would have loved to incorporate that. Well that's great for those athletes and I would imagine too. I mean when I think about it, you know, with my training. I've been marathon training for years now. Even just the idea of having something new and exciting like that is appealing, right? And something that gives you an extra edge. So I would imagine that does feed back into your goal of engaging people's emotions and passions a little bit too. How does that kind of fit together? You know, using that new technology does it help with emotions in that way. [37:42] Sharone: Absolutely, I think one of the things about this trending routine because it's such high intensity intervals. That's what we want to do. We want to trigger the high-end of your fitness in altitude so you actually get two workouts in one. And it's definitely bringing something new into the endurance sport. The endurance sport you have to have your pace. You have to make sure it's tempo and tempo, and 5k is 5k, and 10k is 10k. And here we bring you into a room and says no you're going to run at 5% elevation for 30 seconds as fast as you can. It's not a 5k, it's not a 10k. You're going to get on that bike and you press that lever to level 10 and you spin as hard you can for 10 seconds. And you might do it 15 times. Now 15 times of 10 seconds. About 2.5 minutes of a workout that will give you benefits in 4 week `that you won't gain in a year in training regularly for an hour to an hour and a half for that period of time. There is a lot of research compare protocols like this between doing it in an altitude and not altitude. And you see it, it's like 25% difference. 25-35% difference in benefit between doing the same thing outside and inside. And it's phenomenal. It's great. It brings in, people want to try it, people want to try it. We are pioneers in this and I think once people see the results. And it takes about two weeks to start saying, hmm something is clicking. Like for example, I was working very hard on that 10 second sprints but two weeks later you realize they're recovering a lot faster between those sprints. So you can maintain the power output. Not just get to it and go down. Or you can go and bike another 45 minutes outside of the bike room. So within 2 weeks you can see that. In 4 weeks you can start seeing performance benefits like in races. One of the biggest things we've heard is that the hills are getting flatter. Meaning we don't lose as much pace going up the hill. And then we have a lot more power towards the end of the race. So we feel a lot stronger finishing the race. I'm not going to give my example from this last weekend. Or maybe I should. So I raced in Santa Rosa. They cancelled the swim. And so we started a time trial and my last section which was about 10 miles was the fastest on the bike. Fastest 10 miles on the bike of the entire race. And it's not that we all of a sudden got wind that pushed me. It was significantly faster by like 3 miles an hour, faster on the bike. And I think, I believe it's only due to the training in the altitude room. I came into the race with very little volume. So I can't say that my training was perfect. What I did focus on is purely going into the room twice a week. And I can see that also riding with my friends. All of a sudden then don't drop me like they normally do. Cindy: Well that does lead into the other question we have on We Got Goals which is about your goals for the future. If you had to name one thing that you kind of have your sites set on, it could be a personal athletic goal, it could be a goal with the altitude training room or how many athletes here you want to help. What is a goal you have for the future and how do you plan to get there? Sharone: So can I have two goals? Cindy: I suppose you can. We'll allow it. Sharone: So you know one of the things as a coach that came from being an athlete is one of the biggest challenges I had. Especially with this operation we have down here. Is how you see the athlete that you coach. In the beginning they're becoming at your level and then they're surpassing you because of a lot of different reasons. And one of them is because you lose fitness. And one of my goals is to go back to training on a regular basis so I can go into a race and enjoy racing it. I mean I still race but it's I need to train more. So that's one goal to just get back into being an athlete again. The second goal which is probably more important these days. It would be what am I going to do with a business. And my goal is to incorporate this new concept onto training. Encompass in a training facility like we have here into more locations. Make it a part of people's routine. Make altitude training a part of coaches and athletes template for training. And we do a lot of work with this at this point with a lot of lectures. With a lot of open houses. We just started a beta program. This is phenomenal. I'm so excited about this. It's basically invited, we sent application out to ask people to apply for that beta program. And the beta program basically is a six week program where we take people from different levels, beginner athletes, advanced athletes, cyclists, and triathletes, runners. And we walk them through the training plan and we have baseline training and then post intervention training but testing. And we're so excited we have 12 athletes and 1 junior athlete that are participating. We had more than 50 applicants. And we had to choose. It's hard to say who can not go. But one of the early programs that we did is exactly the program we're delivering in this beta program. We had a marathon runner, she was stuck at 3:45 for 9 marathons. She did 4 weeks in the altitude room, 2 sessions a week in her approach to her marathon which was a spring marathon. An April marathon and she PRed by 9 minutes. Now we know that in Chicago spring marathons are not usually the best marathon you're going to have because it's very hard to train. She PRed by 9 minutes. And now she's not thinking just breaking that 3:45 but Boston. So I'm excited to see how these athletes, what the benefits are. Some of them are going to world championship in triathlon, some of them are going into the marathon, some of them are doing some ultras, so I'm excited. Cindy: Yeah, well and that probably fuels your own goals as an athlete to. I mean it must be hard to carve, especially when you have this new kind of venture that you're trying to get off the ground. It probably is hard to carve out that time for your own training. How is that going to look practically for you? Are you going to block more time for it or what are some of the ways you're going to make that happen? [44:35] Sharone: It's simple, I think I already answered this. Surrender to the plan. It is, it really truly is surrender to the plan. I have a plan, I write my own training program. Sometimes it's a little bit unrealistic but I make the adjustment. But once it's there surrender to the plan. I'm [...] a little less which gives me a little bit more time. But there's always something to do. You sit down and the list is from here to nowhere. You need to first of all find the time that is most comfortable for you to train. For example, I'm an afternoon kind of guy. Not necessarily a morning kind of guy. Sometimes I have to train in the morning. But I train in the afternoon. So I do all of my work until 2:00/3:00. All my long runs are done at like noon. I go to lakefront at noon, people think I'm crazy. I don't mind, I get a good tan out of the workout. But I think fitting it to where it fits best. And I think when you come to work at some point, the brain stops working. And that's the point where you instead of fighting it, you get up and do the thing. And then you come back and you're a lot fresher. And you can have a little more sense in your answers and a little more sense in your emails and a little more sense in anything else you do. Cindy: Surrender to the plan. I love it. Sharone: Exactly, that's what it is. Yeah. Cindy: Well this has been such a great conversation. Thank you so much for joining us today. And We Got Goals really appreciate your time. Sharone: Fantastic, thank you. Cindy: He goal getters, Cindy Kuzma again here. Just checking in to let you know that you're about to hear a goal from one of you, our listeners! If you would like to share your goal on the We Got Goals podcast, we would love to hear from you. All you have to do is record an audio memo or mp3 wav file. Email it to me at Cindy@aSweatLife.com. And you could be featured here on an upcoming episode. Thanks so much for listening and here is one of you with your goals. Mariah: I'm Mariah Boyd from Chicago, Illinois. I have found that just telling everybody in my life, big people, small people, random acquaintances my goal has really helped me stay accountable. I made a New Years goal this year to reduce my paper towel use at work and I told a random friend of a friend. I saw her five months later and she said hey hows that paper towel goal going? And I said, I completely forgot I set that goal. And so just her bringing it back up made me refocus on the goal and I have successfully reduced my paper towel use. Environmental issues are a really big thing for me. And I'm a dentist so I wash my hands a thousand times a day. So I just know I'm throwing away so much paper and it really kind of affects me and makes me feel bad. So trying to eliminate that as much as possible has just made me feel better about myself and my impact on the environment. Cindy: This podcast is asweatlife.com production and it’s another thing that’s better with friends. So please, share it with yours. You can subscribe wherever you get your podcasts including now on Spotify. And while you’re there if you could leave us a rating or a review we would really appreciate it. 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She was born Golda Mabovitch in 1898 in Kiev, which is now in the Ukraine, but then it was part of the Russian Empire. In her autobiography, Golda tells about her father boarding their home up, during the pogroms in 1905 in Kiev, where over 100 Jews were murdered. In 1906 her family moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She was a natural leader, famous for having raised money to pay for textbooks for her whole school when she was only 11 years old. She knew how to speak from her heart. She ran away from home when she was 15 years old because her parents wanted her to leave school and get a job. She went to Denver, where her sister Sheyna lived. There she learned about Zionism. She met Morris Myerson there, and they married, on the condition that they would move to Israel, which they did, in 1921 to Kibbutz Merhavia. They moved to Jerusalem in 1924 and had two children, Menahem and Sarah. In Jerusalem, Golda Meir became politically active, by representing the Histadrut Trade Union and also serving as a delegate to the World Zionist Organization. This area, at the time, was under the control of Great Britain, as prescribed by the sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916. This was a secret agreement from 1916 between the French and the British, which the Russians agreed to, that split up the region of what is now Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Armenia, and Israel. The British White Paper of 1939 went so far to allow the Arab official of the area to determine the rate of Jewish Immigration, including during the Second World War. Golda Meir fought hard against these policies at the time. When it was decided that the Jews would be given a homeland in the area of Palestine, it was clear that there would be a war. Golda knew English, so she knew how to speak to the American Jews. She went on a fundraising trip, and came back with 50M dollars! They were able then to buy weapons from Czechoslovakia, which enabled them to defend themselves during the war of independence. In 1948, Israel declared its independence and Golda Meir's signature is on that declaration. She was elected to the Israeli parliament, and when the fighting with the Arabs started, David Ben-Gurion sent her, dressed up in disguise as an Arab, on a secret mission, to plead with King Abdullah I not to enter into a war against Israel. He declined. On May 10, 1948, four days before the official establishment of Israel, Meir traveled to Amman, Jordan, disguised as an Arab woman for a secret meeting with King Abdullah I of Transjordan at which she urged him not to join the other Arab countries in attacking the Jews. Abdullah asked her not to hurry to proclaim a state. Meir replied: "We've been waiting for 2,000 years. Is that hurrying?" The war expanded to include Egypt, Transjordan, Iraq, and Syria, all against Israel. The result, as we know, is that Israel preserved her independence. Golda was named the Minister of Labor, then the Foreign Minister. Carrying the first Israeli-issued passport, Meir was appointed Israel's ambassador to the Soviet Union. In 1955, on Ben-Gurion's instructions, she stood for the position of mayor of Tel Aviv. She lost by the two votes of the religious bloc who withheld their support because she was a woman. Golda Meir gave a speech to the UN in 1962 urging Arabs to agree to full disarmament. Here is part of the introduction: [audio clip on podcast] When Golda Meir was 68 years old, even though she wanted to leave the world of politics, she was convinced to stay on as the head of the Mapai party, which she was able to merge with two other parties into the Israel Labor Party. After Prime Minister Levi Eshkol suddenly died in 1969, she put off her retirement again and agreed to serve out the remainder of his term. Then her party won the elections, and she got a further four years as prime minister. During her time as prime minister, she met with Henry Kissinger, she agreed for “security versus sovereignty,” where Israel would accept that Egypt has all of Sinai, while Egypt would accept Israeli presence in some of the Sinai strategic positions. At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team and a German police guard were murdered. Golda Meir then ok'd what is known as Operation Wrath of God, which was an undercover operation carried out by the Mossad, to kill the people responsible for the massacre, who were from the PLO and the Black September. Now, let's talk about the lead up to the Yom Kippur War. The Israeli intelligence couldn't say for sure if an attack was being planned by the surrounding Arab nations, but on Oct 5, 1973, Meir did receive notice that the Syrian forces were massing on the Golan Heights. Her advisers said that they would still have enough time, if needed, to gather the Israeli troops up to fight, but the general feeling in the country was there would not be an attack after the results of the Six-Day War. So although a resolution was passed giving Golda the OK to gather all of the troops together just in case, she didn't do it early enough. Soon, it was clear that there would be war. Golda met with Moshe Dayan who was Minister of Defense, and with General David Elazar. Dayan said there would not be war, so to only gather up the air force and two divisions. General Elazar said that Israel should mobilize all of her troops, plus launch a preemptive strike. Golda Meir did not launch a strike but did gather the troops. She was afraid to lose the US backing, which would certainly be lost if Israel was seen to be the first attacker. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger later made a famous statement, that if Israel had launched a preemptive strike, she would not have received “so much as a nail.” After the Yom Kippur War, Meir and her party were plagued with questions over the lack of preparation for the war. She resigned in April of 1974, succeeded by Yitzhak Rabin as prime minister. She died at the age of 80 from cancer in 1978. The women I talk about are our teachers. Our mentors. Our examples of how we can behave today, how we can be strong women, know ourselves, give of ourselves, and make the world a better place. We are making history now! Every day! So do something great! Memorable! Make history!! Thank you to the Jewish Virtual Library, plus other sites I used as resources for today's show. You can always see the links to our resources in the show notes, which are on the website at http://www.thestrongwomensclub.com/. 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Larry and his friends attend the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy and have a great time. Larry goes on an Olympic spectating binge with ’08 Beijing summer, ’10 Vancouver winter, ’12 London summer, and ’14 Sochi winter. Meanwhile, he and his brother Big George ( https://www.bradkearns.com/2019/04/16/sidney/ ) have a fun excursion at a “sliding school” in Salt Lake City, where participants can learn to ride the skeleton on the Olympic race course. The Skeleton is that newer Olympic event where you race headfirst down the track in a manner similar to the bobsleds and the luge (feet first) competitors. Yes, you are sliding down the twisty- turny icy track at 85 miles per hour! This was the genesis of Larry’s Olympic dream, where he literally emerged from the crowd to pursue a longshot opportunity to represent the great nation of Israel in the Skeleton at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Korea. Never mind that Larry is in his mid-40s at the time; he went all-in with this odyssey where he traveled the world to compete at the various international competitions where one accumulates points and angles for a precious few spots in World Cup events and eventually the Olympic field. This conversation will get you inspired to dream big and go for it! Regarding his age, Larry decided to turn this to his advantage, stating that he wanted it to become an inspiration to others rather than a handicap. While he fell short of his stated goal of competing in the Olympics, you will gain a deep appreciation for the true value of chasing one’s dreams, namely the self-satisfaction that comes from doing your best and inspiring peak performance in others. Larry relates an exciting anecdote about a breakthrough performance where he enjoyed what can only be called a “third place victory.” What’s more, a member of Larry’s Israeli Skeleton crew became the first athlete to represent that country in any sliding sport. Larry’s devotion to the Israeli program earned him a spot as a team assistant coach for the 2018 PyeongChang , Korea games. Enjoy this great show about pursuing peak performance goals throughout life and appreciate the most important lessons of the competitive experience. *TIMESTAMPS:* We find how Larry discovered, at an advanced age, his passion for the sport of Skeleton in the Winter Games and how this applies to all sport endeavors. [04:11] What is it like to go downhill Skeleton style? [17:20] He made the Israeli Olympic team. How does one qualify? [22:24] On the different teams, are you helping each other or competing against one another? [38:05] While teams are in training, the competitive nature can cause problems. [41:42] One of the biggest parts of the Olympics is competing for something bigger than yourself. [47:02] Age is not a reason to fail. [53:07] Skeleton is the slowest of the three speeds: Luge, Bobsled, and skeleton. [01:02:33] What was the process of Larry qualifying for the team? [01:03:20] The dream happened. [01:09:08] The lessons learned of giving 100% to get back 100% apply in all walks of life. [01:14:11] Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-get-over-yourself-podcast/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
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