Bonus: Another Unorthodox Havdalah
Producer Josh Kross is back, bringing a little light into your Saturday night social distancing. If you want to keep these minisodes going, we’d love for you to rate Unorthodox on iTunes and set up a...
View ArticleBonus: An Unorthodox Kabbalat Shabbat
On today’s Unorthodox dispatch, Liel prepares for a much-needed Shabbat with a joke by Columbia University professor Jeremy Dauber, an expert on Jewish humor, as well as a song by the Jewbador, Jim...
View ArticleMailing It In
This week, our hosts are connecting via Zoom conference to discuss their new remote realities and read a lot of listener mail. We also hear from Tablet writer Yair Rosenberg, who composed and recorded...
View ArticleBonus: Dispatches from the Future
On today’s Unorthodox dispatch, producer Sara Fredman Aeder shares an audio diary recorded over the last week as her family has been living under quarantine in Westchester, NY. If you want to keep...
View ArticleAn Unorthodox Reading List
On today’s Unorthodox dispatch, we’re talking to Tablet’s book critic Adam Kirsch about what to read now that you might have a bit more time on your hands. If you want to keep these minisodes going,...
View ArticleUnorthodox Bonus: Havdalah
On the second of this week’s mini-episodes, Unorthodox Producer Josh Kross shares some Havdalah wisdom, with the help of our Facebook group (join here!). Then, Stephanie calls up Swipe Out Hunger...
View ArticleHeat Check
This week, it’s coronavirus versus Purim, with a quarantine update from one of our producers. Our Jewish guest is Wall Street Journal sports reporter Ben Cohen, who joins us to discuss his new book,...
View ArticleTruth to Power
This week on Unorthodox: Jewish royal watching, Belgian parades, and more. Liel speaks with Harvard professor emeritus Ruth Wisse about the reissue of her book Jews and Power. She shares her theory...
View ArticleWorking It
This week we’re bringing you two interviews from our live show at the Valley of the Sun JCC in Phoenix. First up, we get a double shot of rabbinical wisdom from Pinchas Allouche, the founding rabbi of...
View ArticleWhole Hearted
This week, we’re celebrating secular Tu B’Av, aka Valentine’s Day. The creators of the stars of Soon By You, the popular web series that’s basically Friends with modern Orthodox Jews, return to the...
View ArticleSoul Cycles
This week, we’re putting more truth on the wheel. First, Mark talks to Mark Galli, who until recently was the editor in chief of evangelical magazine Christianity Today. Just before retiring he...
View ArticleKnowing, Doing, and Being
This week, presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Mike Bloomberg are leaning into their Jewishness (see here and here), and we’re here to analyze their efforts. Our Jewish guest is Andrew Rehfeld,...
View ArticleSpeak Your Mind
This week, we learn how to complain better. Our first guest is Amy Fish, the ombudsman for Concordia University in Montreal and the author of I Wanted Fries With That: How to Ask for What You Want and...
View ArticleAll in the Family
This week on Unorthodox: Three Jews, infinite opinions. First, Mark sits down with Yiscah Smith, a Jewish educator, spiritual activist, and author. Yiscah discussed her journey as a trans woman and...
View ArticleBest Food Forward
We’re starting 2020 with our favorite combo: Talmud and food. First, Adam Kirsch reflects on completing the seven-year cycle of Daf Yomi, the practice of reading one page of Talmud each day, which he...
View ArticleChristmas in Colorado
This week, we’re coming to you live from Denver’s JCC Mizel Arts and Culture Center as part of the 12th annual Neustadt Jewish Arts, Authors, Movies, and Music Festival. Our Jewish guest is Sue...
View ArticleHanukkah Helper
New York-area listeners: Enter to win a spot at our first-ever Unorthodox Shabbat dinner, Jan. 3 at the Freehand New York. This week on Unorthodox, we’re getting into the Hanukkah spirit. But first, a...
View ArticleTradition and Myth
This week on Unorthodox, we’re very literally all over the place. First, we bring you News of the Jews from our live show earlier this week at the Valley of the Sun JCC in beautiful Phoenix. Then we...
View ArticlePrep-ing for Hanukkah
This week on Unorthodox, we’re kicking off December with three very festive interviews. First up, designer Jonathan Adler and his husband, three–time Unorthodox guest Simon Doonan. Jonathan tells us...
View ArticleBreaking Bread
This week on Unorthodox, we’re thankful for bread, bagels, and deli. We talked carbohydrates and community on stage at the JCC of Metro Detroit with two Jewish guests who run Detroit institutions:...
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