DB is a British comedian who is also Jewish. Whilst I vaguely recognise the name, I know nothing of his work. Although he was born in New York, he grew up in Dollis Hill, North West London; as the wiki page puts it, Baddiel attended the North West London Jewish Day School in Brent,[12] and the public school Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Elstree.
These used to be fertile breeding grounds for children who would join Habonim, so when I googled "David Baddiel Habonim", I wasn't surprised to find the following "When I was in a Zionist-socialist youth group called Habonim, they wanted to get people to go to kibbutz and make Aliyah, which I never did*. But in the 1970s, kibbutz was a progressive thing, and many leftists aspired to the kibbutz lifestyle. I think that's changed for a lot of reasons. Some of them have to do with things that have happened in the Middle East."
Baddiel is eight years younger than me, born in 1964, so of course he wouldn't have moved in the same circles as I did. Even so, I wonder: for a time in 1974-5, I was the leader of the young 10-12 year olds in North West London. Baddiel would have been 10 years old at the time ... maybe he was in my group?
* But I did.
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| 42 | Schizophrenia and insomnia | MIDI, Van der Graaf Generator, Bar mitzva, Insomnia | |
| 377 | Locarno log (3) | Holiday, Italy, Switzerland | |
| 875 | New lyrics | Personal, Song writing | |
| 1156 | DBA update | DBA | |
| 1238 | Changes in the music room | Musical instruments | |
| 1404 | Relative date fields | Programming, Delphi | |
| 1639 | Today's nutrional reading: "The fatburn fix" | Woody Allen, Non-fiction books, Nutrition |
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