March 28, 2026 Seth Grossman Radio: Making America Great Begins With Families, Family Dinners, and Holidays. The Joy of Sharing Passover and Easter. Grossman’s History Book Refutes UN Resolution on Slavery. Public Schools Make Housing in NJ “Unaffordable.” NJ State Lawlessness Created Atlantic City’s Debt.

Above Image From Article in Epoch Times: "Why Family Dinners Are Important": ***   Excerpts from Seth Grossman weekly interview on John DeMasi program "Talk with a Purpose" on WPGTalkRadio com, 95.5FM and 1450AM near Atlantic City, NJ: SETH GROSSMAN:  I'm calling from West Palm Beach, Florida, this morning. I'm down with one of my daughters, my son-in-law, and two grandkids. So, I'm a little bit removed from the news today. *** TRIBUTE TO WILLARD "BILL" LABARRE, CO-FOUNDER OF CHELSEA NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION IN 1975: But first, I want to pay tribute to Bill Labarre. He died last December, but they're going to have a tribute for him tomorrow (Sunday, March 29) at the at the Log Cabin in Margate. He was one of the five founders of the Chelsea Neighborhood Association in Atlantic City in 1975.  The others included Jimmy Masland, Annette Malley, the wife of Dr. Stuart Malley, me, and one other. There were five of us. The lessons I learned from that Chelsea Neighborhood Association inspired me to start Liberty and Prosperity years later. *** Everything I did with the Chelsea Neighborhood Association and Liberty and Prosperity was about making America great again. And one of the first things I learned is that to make America great again, we can't depend on the government. We can't depend on politics. We can't depend on one man like President Trump.  A whole lot of people need to do a whole lot of things that most Americans used to do, that we are no longer doing today. All those people doing all those things before made America great. And we all have to start doing those things again to make America great again. *** MAKING AMERICA GREAT BEGINS WITH FAMILIES, FAMILY DINNERS, AND HOLIDAYS LIKE EASTER AND PASSOVER. *** I see that very clearly being with my daughter, my son-in-law, and their kids, my grandkids. The most important thing we need in America today is for young people to get married and have children and raise families. And one of the best ways to raise families and to create good and strong Americans is for Mom and Dad and the kids to have dinner together at least four or five nights a week.  Those dinners together are more important than almost everything else. They should begin with a blessing over the bread or grace for the meal. There should be no distractions. No cell phones, no TV, no toys at the table.  Everybody sitting down and facing each other. Talking to each other. Listening to each other. Exchanging ideas. Asking questions. What did you do today. Here's what I did today. What do you want to do tomorrow. Little everyday conversation. You really appreciate the importance of this when you are part of it. You see how these simple family dinners at the end of the day teach manners, respect, letting somebody else speak first, while you are listening. then you talk when it is your turn. This is not at all easy. It takes discipline. It takes practice. It takes patience. The kids often don't want to do this. They want to run out. They want to play a game or watch a video on a cell phone. They want to do a zillion things. But parents have to set the rules. There will be anger, frustration, arguments, and meltdowns. But after a while, it becomes a very pleasant experience. I would say having dinners with my daughter's family and her children impressed me more than a whole lot of political stuff I've been doing and seeing on TV during the past few months. *** Click Here for Link to Epoch Times article: "How Parents Can Renew Society":  Click Here for Link to Epoch Times article:  "Why Family Dinners Are Important": *** JOHN DEMASI: You know, you make a good point. How many times and I see it with my niece and my grandson. How many times, you know, you sit at the table, he's on his phone, the TV's on, and the husband's upstairs doing something. And she's calling everybody, come on to dinner. You know, it's it's really it's hard. You're absolutely right. It's hard to do. It's hard to accomplish because there are too many distractions. SETH GROSSMAN: Yes, it is hard to do. But it's important. And you usually need both parents who know how important it is to do it. We Boomers spend so much of our time saying, well, the President ought to do this, or the government ought to do that, or Congress needs to do this. But we can't get Mom, Dad and the kids to sit together at the same table, for one a forty-five-minute period every day for maybe four or five days a week to teach kids what it's like to live in a civilized society. So, I got a lot of insight, and I really have a lot of admiration for my daughter and son-in-law for doing this. It's not easy. They both work. They both have to juggle their schedules to do this. But it's important to them. And I'm glad it is. I want to recognize and commend all the families that do that. Las week, I criticized the CRDA, the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, for giving $96,000 to the Atlanta County Queer Alliance. Before that, I criticized the Ocean City Public Schools for teaching third and fourth graders three or four different ways to have sex to have. We need our tax dollars and our schools to be teaching our kids and our young people the importance of getting married and traditional lifestyles. Now, if somebody wants an alternative lifestyle, they have the constitutional and moral right to be free to do what they want. However, we should not be using our schools and public resources and tax dollars to encourage alternative lifestyles. We've got to worry about the future. And America's future depends on families, and men and women getting married and having kids and forming families. Because without parents and kids and families we have no country. If Americans don't have children, our future will depend on bringing in immigrants to have children. Many of them have different cultures that hate everything good about America. If we depend on them, then America has no future. This is important. And the perfect time to think about things like this is during holidays like the ones coming up. *** ONLY IN AMERICA:  THE JOY OF SHARING EASTER AND PASSOVER. *** Tomorrow is Palm Sunday. The Jewish Passover Seder is Wednesday night. Both of these holidays are linked in many ways. Jewish Passover almost always begins on the night of the first full moon after March 21, the first day of spring. Easter always takes place on the first Sunday after the first full moon in spring. Both holidays have many common traditions. Above Image: Easter Sunrise Service on Steel Pier in Atlantic City (1948). Click Here for Link to 2022 Post by Seth Grossman:  Easter And Passover Memories From 1950's Atlantic City - Liberty and Prosperity One of the things that frankly disappointed me, is that my Jewish grandkids know absolutely nothing about Easter. They both go to public schools here in Florida. They never heard of Peter Cottontail or the Bunny Trail, the Easter Bunny, or Easter. I remember learning all about Easter as a Jewish kid going to a public elementary school in the 1950s and 1960s. For a month before Easter, we had to eat Quaker Oats oatmeal for breakfast. Why Quaker Oats? Because it came in a round cardboard container shaped like a barrel or a cylinder. When the box was empty, we took it to school and they cut it in half. Then we'd turn it into an Easter basket with some construction paper. And of course we also ate a lot of scrambled eggs that month.  My mom had to put a tiny hole in each egg to get the inside out. Then we took the empty eggshells to school so our teacher could dye them many different colors so they would be Easter eggs for our basket. And all of us, Jewish and Christian kids all learned about Easter and sang Easter songs. It was a very pleasant thing. And, of course, on Passover, we would bring our matzah into school for lunch. We didn't impose it on anybody else, but we learned each other's traditions and how much we had in common, and all of it was good. And there is another Easter memory I had as a child. My grandmother, came from the old country in Eastern Europe. She lived in a town called Kishinev in the province of Moldavia in the Russian Empire. On Easter Sunday in 1903, they had a massacre of Jews on Easter Sunday.  She and her family survived. But she was always fearful of Easter. But then she came to America and raised her children here including my mother.  Then my mom and dad moved to Atlantic City. And my grandmother came down to be with us every Passover for the Seder.  And of course, Easter Sunday was usually right after the Passover Seder.  And so our whole family would get dressed up in our best outfits and walk on the Atlantic City Boardwalk that Sunday for the Easter Parade. And I still remember how much joy that gave her. She was so happy and proud to live in this country. She would always say, "Only in America" and people live together and be so happy. Another favorite saying was "God Bless Columbus". So when we celebrate these holidays, I think of how much Americans used to have in common, and what a great country we had. So that is why I am so sentimental today. I am enjoying being with my family, especially my grandchildren during the holidays. Politics and politicians come and go. But families, values, and traditions like enjoying these holidays together built America. If we're going to make America great again, we have to start, having dinners with our families, we have to turn off the TV and put the silencer on our cell phones and put them away and talk to and listen to our kids. We need learn what they are doing and share with them our memories and knowledge and what we learned from our parents and grandparents. JOHN DEMASI: You know, you're taking a different tone today than you normally do, and that's good. That's a good thing. ***