Description: Boteach would start with marital counseling.

Transcript: If I had $100 billion to give away, the first thing I would do is take a sizeable chunk – let’s say $10 billion – and make marital counseling free in the United States. Because I think a lot of couples, had they had counseling – they can’t afford it – they’d still be together. Then I would take another $10 billion or $20 billion and I would launch a global education force among the warring world religions to really come together. Jews and Muslims; Protestants and Catholics, which isn’t as bad anymore; but certainly in the Middle East. I would somehow create an effective educational campaign to bring people together to finally rid war from this earth. I would then take another $10 billion and I would dedicate it to an anti-genocide fund, educating people about genocides that are going on anywhere in the world, and inspiring the UN and world governments to do something about it. I would spend $10 billion on an educational fund for women, teaching women about the real values of feminine pride, feminine dignity, of not being a man’s eye candy, of not living for male attention but living from within and the attention will come in a positive way. And I . . . I don’t know what I’m left with right now, but I would give 20% of it – $20 billion – to the state of Israel, and to its institutions and its framework. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. It’s the Jewish homeland. It is fighting an existential battle for its existence. I would give it to the brave soldiers who defend it. I would give it . . . Israel has a million Arab citizens. I would improve their lives as well, God willing, to show them that they are absolutely welcome, and loved, and appreciated in the Jewish state. Just because it’s a Jewish state doesn’t mean that they’re not equal in every single way. And I would do my best to strengthen Israel because I fear for its existence. I fear for its continuity. And I love it and respect it. I respect its achievements. I respect the fact that it has created so much freedom and liberty in a region that just doesn’t have it.

Recorded on: 9/5/07