Carl then recounts, "When I was 13 years old I had some close friends in a Zionist youth group called Betar. They wore uniforms and kept talking about a Jewish state on both sides of the Jordan. I didn't care about that. I just wanted to be with Shloime and Moishe." Which Carl is that? Carl Reiner!...

One can tell the story of the Jewish people as a litany of miseries or as an epic on the theme of rising above those miseries....