This week on Unorthodox, we talk Birthright, Hobby Lobby, and Jay-Z.
Our Jewish guest is historian Jenna Weissman Joselit, whose latest book is Set in Stone: America’s Embrace of the Ten Commandments. She tells us how the Ten Commandments, which have become so politicized, were actually once a unifying force in America, and dishes on the 19th-century drama over a Lower East Side synagogue’s stained-glass depiction of the Decalogue. Then she tests us on whether we can list all Ten Commandments from memory.