Rabbi Shmuley Unleashed

This Sunday I’m going to be conducting an intimate conversation with Jon Gosselin at the West Side Jewish Center in Manhattan.

America has to start having serious conversations about fame. 

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Over
the weekend I read Startup Nation, the new book about why Israel has
emerged as an unlikely global leader in high-tech. Even if its authors
Dan Senor and Saul Singer were not my friends and, in the case of Saul,
my editor at the post I would still say that it’s the best
advertisement for Israel to come out in recent memory. Foregoing the
usual discussion of Israel as an embattled nation whom everyone hates
and seeks to destroy, it focuses instead on the ingenuity and
invincibility of the Israeli people and their vast technological
contribution to the global economy. Where the Israeli army is discussed
its focus is not on soldiers chasing down terrorists but on how the
Israeli military serves as a future commercial networking tool for
soldiers who served in the same unit. You can see why the book both
informs and inspires.

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Last
night our organization, This World: The Values Network, hosted a
fascinating discussion entitled, “Values to Heal America” featuring
Prof. Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. Mehmet Oz,
America’s doctor, and Mayor Cory Booker of Newark.

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I just returned from Houston, Texas, where I gave three lectures. Place was hot as a tamale. When I returned I heard from several people that Tracy Morgan had mentioned something about me on 30 Rock on NBC. I had known something of it before since it seems to have been part of their promos.

Apparently, Tracy says, “I have to reconnect with my roots. I have to go see Rabbi Shmuley.” That’s cool. I always want people to reconnect with their roots. I agree with the Bible.  A man is a tree of the field, rooted in his own soil, his own culture, his own traditions. But growing out in the world, enriching the environment with his own unique contribution. We shouldn’t be potatoes or turnips, wallowing only in our own earth. We have to be rooted by grow out, creating a truly multi-ethnic society. And Tracy, you’ve kept my laughing for so many years, It’d would be my pleasure to reconnect you with your roots.

Incidentally, I love 30 Rock. Intelligent, outrageous comedy that makes me laugh. And Tina Fey is a genius.