Guest: Sasha Salama, Business Communication professor at Yeshiva University's Business School

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You're listening to talk Line with ZevBrenner, America's premier Jewish broadcast on
the air since nineteen eighty one.Now here's your host and we're back.
Ama. Zev Brenner is so happyto be here with you. You know,
when I look for guests, someof they go around the world and
try to find most interesting people,but lots of times the most fascinating ones

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are right here in your backyard.Our guest, Sasha Salama Wineguard, is
a wonderful person who I just metrecently. She's an award winning broadcast journalist,
a writer, a documentary producer.She has more than twenty five years
of experience in the United States andoverseas. She's into hundreds of CEOs about
their companies. She's been with CNN, CNN International, CNN Headline News,

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CNN FN, which is the financialnetwork, CNBC not only in the United
States, but an Asia Reuters TV, Asia Business TV. She's individed people
such as Jeff Bezos of Amazon.She's currently a professor of Business Communications at
Yeshoe University. She helped launch CNBCin the US and CNBC Asia. She

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created the first global business news program. She's covered financial news, and she
has a Bachelor of Arts degree fromBrown University and also journalism Columber University.
I only touched on some of thethings that she's done. But thank you
for joining us. It's a pleasure. Thank you, Zev. It's great
to be here. Thank you.Now this is just in the business.

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Then you also started out non religious, became religious along the way, so
that it could be the subject ofa book. So but let's begin.
Because you start started first in radiowas your first love, and you got
involved in broadcast. In fact,from what I understand that you were one
of the top women, especially inbusiness television in your day. Well,
that's very generous of you to couchit that way. I did start in

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radio. Yes, at Brown Universitythere was a hybrid radio station. It
was partly run by professionals. Therewas a professional sales staff. In the
big picture, it was a fantasticexperience because the radio station, which was
called WBRU FM, broadcast all overRhode Island into Connecticut, into Massachusetts,

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and that's where I really discovered mylove of journalism. We covered the presidential
elections, we covered local elections,and we were wreck ignized by the Associated
Press for several pieces that we did, and I personally was recognized for a

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Holocaust documentary that I did on asurvivor who was living in Rhode Island.
So it was a fantastic way toreally get hands on experience in broadcasting.
Now you also were on camera too, I believe, in addition to putting
together CNBC in Asia, which againnot too many women were involved in business

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journalism, then I think the sameholds truth of today. But when you
did CNN, was it also businessoriented? We did CNN and c and
international with everything, I had abusiness land to it from what I understand,
correct, yes, all of well, most of my on camera work
was financial news, although at CNNsometimes I would also do international stories or

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more general news stories. But I'dsay seventy five percent of what I've done
is financial, twenty five percent moregeneral. Now, Kartha, your teacher
at university, do you miss notbeing in front of the camera work with
some of these big companies such asCNN or CNBC. It's an interesting question.
I love information, I love knowingwhat's going on. Do I miss

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being on camera? I mean,we're on zoom right now, aren't we?
Absolutely here? You're on camera againright so? And I mean these
days everybody's on zoom. Do Imiss it? I mean it's fun.
There's a certain adrenaline rush that comeswith being on live TV. When that
red light goes on over the camera'sthere's a certain excitement that said, you

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know, I still really am interestedin what's happening. So that's really my
love. And also writing is somethingI've always loved and I'm keeping up with
that in different ways. Now.Part of your duties was you had you
were overseas, you were in HongKong, you were involved in business news.
Now was CNN, and there wasa periodtographers see I think you were

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seeing after you became religious. Correct. I was at CNN before and after
and after? Okay? Now wasCNN as anti Israel then as it is
today? Was it as biased inthose days? It depends what your perspective
is. Let's put it this way. In terms of financial news, CNN
used to cover it a lot morewhen I was there than it does now.

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You mentioned CNN Financial network. Itno longer exists, for example.
And you know, the networks havereally changed their whole perspective and whole m
not just CNN, but news ingeneral has changed radically, I'd say in
the last five years, no questionabout that. Become more partisan. I

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think a lot of the networks usedto cover broadly news. Now they go
with their ideology, whether it's Foxor CNN. Yeah, opinion, you
know, finding news where you aregiven different viewpoints and you, the viewer
or the listener, draw your ownconclusions is much more the exception than the
role these days, if it evenexists anymore, I mean it does,

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but not nearly as it used tonow. Of course, you come from
the Upper West Side Manhattan. Yougrew up in a Jewish home where you
lit Jabbas candals, may have notdone much more than that. So did
you find and then you became observingand became a balistruva returning to Judaism,
did you find that your Jewishness playany role that? Did you find anti

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Semitism when you find that they havepositive or negative experience while you were not
religious, And I'm looking at thefact when you became religious, some of
the challenge that you might have faced. Okay, so I'll say that,
yes. First of all, beforeI became observant, I always lit Friday
night candles with my mom. Wewere always very proud Jews. We always,

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you know, we're inshol on thehigh holidays and would spend Passover a
lot of Passover with my mother's parentswho lived in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. They
were a huge influence on me ingeneral and on my spiritual growth. I
guess you could say so. Igrew up in a conservative Jewish home,

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and I went to secular schools.I was bought Mitzvuhd, and being a
Jew was always probably how I wouldfirst define myself. That was a very
strong piece of my identity. SoI was part as you mentioned, I
was part of the launch of CNBChere in the US and in Asia.

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And when I moved to Asia,I lived in Singapore for one year and
Hong Kong for two and a halfyears. In Hong Kong, I lived
right across the street from the onlyOrthodox synagogue in Hong Kong. They're different
Minyanim, but this ohell lay itstill there. It's abutul beautiful structure.

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I lived right across the street fromit. So ironically, even though I
grew up on the Upper West Sideof Manhattan, it wasn't until I moved
to Hong Kong and lived across thestreet from an Orthodox shual that I became
interested in learning. We're going toget to have the fact what made you
observe and where you were jewishly connectedbut not jewishly observant, but being with

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CNCNN or CNBC, did you everfind that there a question about your Judaism
came up. Did you find antiSemitism in the ranks. Did you not
see that? And then I wantand then we'll touch about when you became
observant, if things change, andhow you were viewed by your colleagues and
your bosses. Covering financial news.There isn't a whole lot of anti there's

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no real anti Semitism that became apparent. It wasn't like I was covering the
Middle East or issues having to dowith Israel. I will say that,
And this is jumping ahead a littlebit. After I became or as I
was becoming observant, I was atCNN and I had a lawyer representing me

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in contract negotiations. He amended mycontract with CNN to say that I would
not be working from sundown Friday tosundown Saturday, and CNN signed the amended
document. Didn't give me any sortof issue. And that was more symbolic,

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I guess, for me than anythingelse, because financial news doesn't really
happen so much on the weekend unlessit's Sunday night US time when the Asian
markets are open on Monday. Butit was definitely something the company could have
pushed back on and it didn't.And what about CNBC, But you were
out of CNBC at that Now,when you became observant, I was,

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Yeah. I was at CNBC inthe launch, which was in nineteen eighty
nine. I was there for fouryears, and then when we launched CNBC
Asia, it was in the midnineties. I came back from Asia in
ninety seven, and that's when Ihad spent a lot of time in Hong
Kong learning and I realized I lovelearning Torah and I want to do more

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of this. So that was afterCNBC when I did come back from Asia
and came back to the US,that's when I did join CNN. Our
Gaza Sasha Salama Wineguard. She isan award winning broadcast journalists at olph In
Radio. She helped launch CNBC AsiaCNBC in the United States, and there's
now a professor at the university's BusinessSchool teaching business communication actually does voice overs

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Started out in radio. She helpedlaunch CNBC Asia, CNBC in the
United States, and there's now aprofessor at the University's Business School teaching business
communication and she does voiceovers. Donow let me ask you this, Sasha,
you're half Spartacan, half Ashknazac.You're I believe one side is from
Egypt. On the other side livedin Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Then your grandparents

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were Orthodox. In fact, yourgrandfather was a famous doctor. I believe
he treated many prestigious and religious leaders, including the SAtma Rebe. But there's
a special Rabbi Paca Chrome connection fromwhat I understand tell us about. My
grandfather of blessed memory was Dot GabrielKershenbaum. He was a general practitioner in
Williamsburg, Brooklyn for more than sixtyyears. He was on Bedford Avenue,

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and he was really an amazing doctorand an amazing person. He used to
deliver babies on you know, dohouse calls when he first was a young
doctor in the nineteen late twenties andthirties. He also had X ray equipment

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in his office and would develop hisown X rays, which was very unusual.
And he also prided himself on stoppingpeople from having surgery that they didn't
need. He had some alternative methods, medical methods that were very successful.
He was the pediatrician to Rabbi PasachKrone, and when Rabbi Crone spoke in

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the last few years, when hehad just written his book The Glittering World
of Hassid. He talked about growingup, or at least I think until
he was seven years old, andWilliamsburg Brooklyn. So afterwards I went up
to him and got his book andtold him I'm Sasha Salama Wineguard, the
granddaughter of doctor Gabriel Kershendown. AndRabbi Krone just stopped in his tracks and

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he said, you're kidding me.I said no. He said, I
owe your grandfather a big thank you. I said why. He said,
it was your grandfather who told mymother, if you're going to name him
Pasoch, spell it differently, spellit p a y s ac h,
which is in fact how he spellsit. My grandfather, I think thought

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that that would make him stand out, it would give him some extra mozzel.
And Rabbi Krone was just thrilled tohear who my grandfather was. And
he wrote a beautiful inscription in thebook. And I was always wondered why
he spelled by Now you've of themystery with that. Now you know.

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So here you are. You helpeddevelop CNBC America's CNBC Asia. You're there.
You didn't really get to explore muchof your Jewish heritage while you were
in the States, Yet in HongKong it sparked your interest in Judaism.
So over how long of a paristhe word did it take you this new
quest to become more Jewishly religious.When I was in Hong Kong and we

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were getting CNBC Asia up and onits feet, it was a tremendous project.
A lot of excellent people were onthe team. I hired seventy five
people from around the world. Westarted with I think thirteen hours of live
programming and it was a massive effort. This was before Google existed, before

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you could just look things up onthe internet. It was, you know,
the real old fashioned way of help. And what were you doing?
You were doing everything well. Iwas the managing editor, so I hired
everybody who was going to put thenews on the air, and we built
the studios. I mean the wholeengineering crew and construction crews were building the

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network. So it was a massiveundertaking. Everybody was working really, really
hard. And as a way tojust take a break from that world,
I would go to ohell A,a synagogue and spen shabbat. I met
the rabbi and his wife who wasthere at that time, Rabbi Schmuel Lopen

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Shelley Lopin a Blessed Memory. Heand his wife, Connie, who survives
him, were very, very pivotalpeople in my Jewish journey. They knew
that I was in Asia really notknowing a whole lot of people. They
kind of took me under their wing, and before I knew it, I
was going to their home for shootmeals. People were inviting me for Shabat

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meals. And I also would goto Rabbi Lopin and Honey's classes that they
would would hold in their home,and I realized I loved learning about the
Torah, and I just kept goingto these classes and realizing more and more
this is fantastic. I mean,this is not, you know, an

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ancient text. This is this isn'tmaybe an ancient text, but it's so
relevant to today. So that really, I guess you could say sparked.
I guess the Pincila yid that wasin me. And when I came back
to the States, I started goingto classes at Hanani where Rabbittson Esther Young

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Rice held court. Rabbittson Young Ricea Blessed Memory. She was amazing.
There were seven hundred people who wouldcome on Tuesday nights to kJ the synagogue
where she would speak on Tuesdays onthe Upper East Side. I loved learning
from her. By the way,one of her sons married my husband and

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me in the year two thousand.Yeswell, young Rice, yes, wonderful,
wonderful rabbi and man. And Iwas also learning. I found out
from people at Hennane about Asia Torah. So while I stayed at Hennany because
I loved rabbits and Young Rice andher classes, I also went to Asia

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Torah and there were fantastic rabbis andtheir wives at Asia Torah. So before
I knew it, I was kindof hanging out with a from crowd in
the US after hanging out with frompeople in Asia. And that's ultimately what
led me to meet my husband.You know how things become really clear in

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retrospect, right, So everything becameclear? Yeah, yeah, I mean
I was in Asia to help launchCNBC, no question, But I was
also in Asia ultimately to get thespark of learning lit up so that when
I came back to New York Iwould eventually meet my husband. And you
had experience off the camera on thecamera. I know that you were a

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camera reporter or covering mostly financial newsof CNN for eleven years. And you
were, as I said, oncamera there too, So I know that
was a wonderful experience. I'm surereading the news on TV. Yes,
I mean I was on camera reallyfor twenty five years in different capacities at
the various places that I worked CNN, Like we were mentioning before, when

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I came back from Asia, that'swhere I was working. I also was
with Reuters TV, which is Reutersdot com. Now you also wrote for
Charles Osgood of CBS Morning You that'sa big name. Oh boy, that
was earlier in my career. Thatwas a big break for me. At
Actually, after I got out ofgraduate school, I started at a startup

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financial television show. It was calledToday's Business. It was a wonderful first
job because it was a non unionshop and I was able to learn and
do as much as I wanted prettymuch as long as you know, I
got certain assignments for my producers,and I would do them and come back
and say what else can I do? After that, I got a huge

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break to write for the CBS MorningNews and Charles Osgood was the co anchor
at that time, I mean speakingabout the greats of radio. Besides you,
Zev, Charles Osgood has got tobe right up there. So he
is still one of the people Iadmire most in the business, and he

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was such a gentleman. Anyway,that was a huge job for me because
I was writing at the network levelat the time. I was twenty three
years old and by far the youngestperson in the room. Most of the
people on the overnight shift, whichis what it was, were in their
mid fifties, late fifties, andthey'd been in the news business for many

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years. So it was a thrilland a great experience to write for Charles
and Faith Daniels was his co anchorat that time. We're speaking with Sasha's
Salama Wineguard. She's an award winningjournalist autof in radio. She helped Lloyds
CNBC America's NBC Asians. She workedfor CNN, Reuter's TV, and CURRNT.

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She's a professor at the shot University'sBusiness School, teaching business communication.
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with Zev Brenner, America's premier Jewishbroadcast on the year since nineteen eighty one.
Now here's your host. We're speakingwith Sasha's Salama Wine guard seas an
award winning journalists artof in radio.She helped Lloyds, CNBC, America's NBC,
Asians should work for CNN, Reuter'sTV, and Currntry's a professor at

(37:07):
the shot University's Business School, teachingbusiness communication. You entered a lot of
business leaders Sasha, including Jeff Besils, tell us about that and some other
interesting CEOs that you covered over thecourse of your career. Interviewing Jeff Bezos
was a lot of fun. Itwas in the earlier days of Amazon,
and he had just come out witha gadget called a segue. Have you

(37:32):
ever heard of a segue? Notfamiliar with us. It's a way for
people, individual people to get around. It's like a scooter, but it's
like a more high tech scooter.And he came to the NASDAK with his
segue to talk about not just thesegue, but Amazon, and I interviewed

(37:55):
him. We had a lot offun talking just in general about business and
about this segue. And thankfully thiswas in a commercial break, but he
wanted me to try the segue.So when I got up on it,
you have to sort of lean forwardto make it go forward, but I
must not have done that because Istarted going backward. Anyway. It was

(38:16):
in a commercial, so it wasall good. But by the way,
at that time, my husband,who I was dating at the time,
worked near the NASDAC in Midtown andhad come by, I think on his
lunch break or something like that.To say hello, and that's when I
was interviewing Jeff Bezos. So itwas very very wonderful memory and an exciting

(38:39):
time. Did you keep up withhim or did he keep up with you?
No, I haven't really kept upwith him, certainly not in recent
years. But there are some peoplethat I've interviewed who I have kept up
with, including Jim Rogers. JimRogers, I think became most famous in

(39:00):
the nineteen seventies when he co managedone of the first hedge funds that it
was called the Quantum Fund, andwhen I was at CNBC in the US,
we launched, I created and welaunched the first mutual fund program.
Mutual funds were very hot then andkind of a novelty. So Jim was

(39:21):
my co anchor. I was behindthe scenes at that point, and he
was the co anchor of the showalong with Bill Griffith. And Jim was
really a lot of fun to workwith, a very highly brilliant guy,
very colorful, who prided himself onbeing a contrarian investor. So I've kept

(39:46):
up with Jim. He lives inSingapore and he remembers me every year on
my birthday, as I do himvery nice. Are there any other CEOs
that were just starting out then thatbecame big since after you interview them,
you're giving me way too much credits. Ev Not really. I mean I

(40:06):
interviewed a lot of CEOs over theyears in technology and pretty much every industry,
and they've some of them are retirednow, some of them have,
you know, just switched careers.But I can tell you that doing live
TV for most of my career whenI was on camera is a great,

(40:30):
great way to learn about people becausewhen you're in the commercial break and a
person is sitting next to you andyou're about to do an interview. I
mean, of some of these folkswere very seasoned, but some were very
nervous, So you figure out howquickly to calm them down in a one

(40:50):
minute, you know, commercial break, so that they can really be themselves.
So Jeff Bezos wasn't nervous when weget the interview right, No,
he was not nervous at all.And this was in the earl your days
of Amazon too. He was veryvery easy to talk to. Boys a
little bit of a showman. Correct, I'd say that's probably an accurate description.
Now you were one of them again, there weren't a lot of women

(41:13):
in broadcasting and business broadcasting, soI guess I would have made it easier
if he went into an area whereit was easier to break into, let's
say, in other areas. Youmean, in other areas of broadcasting,
right, Well, I certainly workedwith some superb journalists over the years,
male and female. And when Icovered the Nasdak at CNN, it was

(41:37):
really the heyday, you know itwas. I was there for about six
or seven years, which is along time on that particular beat, and
it was in the heyday of thedot com companies, in the dot com
bubble. So i'd say that thereare a lot more women broadcasters in financial

(41:58):
news now than and I first startedat the time that I was really in
the thick of news. Did itgive you an advantage? I don't know
if it did. I think Ialways believed in knowing your subject, researching,
working really hard, and I alwaystried to write as much of my
own copy as I could. SoI don't know if you know being a

(42:21):
woman was an advantage or not.I would always like to think that just
being on top of my game asmuch as I could was an advantage.
Now you transition and being religious duringyour career. When you started off your
broadcast career, you were not asobserver and became observant later on. So
what advice do you have for peoplethat are watching or listening to us that
are religious I want to get involvedin broadcast. Is it easier today?

(42:45):
Not so easy today? What suggestionswould you give them? I'd say work
the morning shift, which is notwhat I planned by design. It was
I you know, where my assignmentswere. And the reason that that's so
helpful, needless to say, isif you observe Shabbat, even in the
winter, if you're working the morningshift, you can manage both. You

(43:07):
can leave in plenty of time onFridays to get home in time for Shabbat,
you know, when it gets darkerearlier. So I'd say definitely work
the morning shift. And in termsof breaking into the business, now it's
a very different business. I mean, social media has really changed the whole

(43:30):
landscape I think of information, includingnews. That said, though I'd say
some of the basic principles still apply. It's always good to have a niche
Mine was financial news. I thinkthat if there's a way you can distinguish
yourself. Do it because that willhelp you make a mark and develop that

(43:53):
expertise and really develop a reputation andcertain credibility. And that's the measure giving
us. You have to distinguish yourselffrom Rabbi pacil Chrome with the a to
finding a niche and broadcasting. Yougot to find an angle. And if
you find an angle leader for religiousit's easier to break into it then if
you just run like everybody else,because that's we'd be more challenging. Yes,

(44:15):
and distinguishing, And yeah, Ilike how you connected those. I
like, yeah, I saw theconnection because that's how your mo is is
that you have to distinguish yourself,and you certainly have done that. You've
accomplished quite a book. When isthe book coming out? Oh boy,
you're you're having me write a book. I don't know. I don't know.
You want to be my ghostwriter,Okay, I don't want to write

(44:37):
the final chat, I want towrite the beginning chapters. Okay. Now
you have a lot more they're doing. I'm sure you're going to get more
involved in doing voiceovers and our guestsas an award winning journalist, and she
helps you heard she's been on CNN, she see an international seeing headline news.
She helped one c NBC in theUnited States, CNBC Asia, she
was with Reuter's TV, and nowshe's a professor of communication at the Shoe

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University of New York. And welook forward to having you back again.
Then I'm sure that maybe you'll domore in Jewish TV and Jewish radio.
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