We are nothing without our memories. The Hebrew Bible makes this point abundantly clear. To understand who we are we have to understand from where we came.

One of the great and most optimistic lessons from the Bible is that you have the capacity to change. You are not locked in to a destructive pattern of behavior. You can make yourself better. That’s why Yom Kippur, contrary to popular opinion, is a happy time.

There have been many recent attempts to make Yom Kippur more “relevant” to young Jews? Is this necessary? What is it that attracts people to a religious life?

There have been many recent attempts to make Yom Kippur more “relevant” to young Jews? Is this necessary? What is it that attracts people to a religious life?

Dennis talks to Nigel Farage, British politician, broadcaster and political analyst… Michael Bloomberg donates $1.8B to Johns Hopkins University. That is a very large waste of money… Dan Crenshaw, a new Republican Congressman from Texas, asks Democrats a simple question they can’t answer: how has the President undermined democracy?

There is a hard-to-believe report in the UK Daily Mail about 17 students at one school who are planning a sex change… A general who should know better makes a very foolish statement about the President and the press.

Students are being indoctrinated to hate America and to think of themselves as victims when are actually the luckiest people on planet Earth… Theaters are giving out to trigger warnings to their patrons… Dennis talks to Henry Olsen, senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, about the midterms.

Per usual, callers set the agenda. Issues raised include: did God make a mistake by giving men too much libido; would Dennis want to give a speech at the 2020 Republican Convention; is it important for spouses to be of the same religion.

Dennis talks to his friend and Happiness Hour regular, psychiatrist and UCLA clincal faculty member, Dr. Stephen Marmer. The topic is resilience, building up your internal shock absorbers. Dr. Marmer teaches the latest PragerU video on this topic.

Dennis’s friend Hugh Hewitt wrote a Washington Post column proposing that Democrats should talk to conservatives. The comments about the column unanimously mocking… Republicans have lost more Congressional seats in CA. In every case the Republican was ahead on election night, but then lost when “provisional ballots” were counted over the following week. Just a coincidence, right?… Dennis talks to Hugh Hewitt about reading readers’ comments…