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A Very Unorthodox Passover
This week on Unorthodox, we’re getting in the mood for matzo with a jam packed Passover episode. We speak with New York Times food writer (and Instant Pot enthusiast) Melissa Clark about her Passover...
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In the Bag
It’s a star-studded, carb-filled post-Passover episode! Our first Jewish guest is designer Rebecca Minkoff, who tells us about sewing her own bat mitzvah dress, starting a handbag and clothing company...
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Mom’s the Word
This week on Unorthodox, we’re talking about the mamas (the mamas) in honor of Mother’s Day. Our Jewish guest is Catherine Reitman, creator and star of the Netflix show Workin’ Moms. She tells us how...
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Spies Like Us
This week on Unorthodox, spies, sex, and comedy! Our Jewish guest is journalist Matti Friedman, whose newest book, Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel, explores the little-known...
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Road Tripping
Our Jewish guest this week is Judith Viorst, who has writtten many books for children, including the classic Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. She tells us about her latest...
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The Book of Schmutz
Tradition, tradition! We sit down with legendary actress Jackie Hoffman, who plays Yenta in the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s production of Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish, and Motl Didner, the...
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The Conversion Episode, 2019
Last May, in honor of Shavuot, the holiday that celebrates the most famous convert to Judaism, Ruth, we put together a special episode all about conversion. We were so moved by the overwhelming...
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Who You Gonna Call?
This week, we’re celebrating the Papas. Our Jewish guest is Violet Ramis Stiel, whose memoir Ghostbuster’s Daughter is about growing up as the eldest child of comedy legend Harold Ramis. She tells us...
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Running the Stage
This week, we’re running to keep up with our two guests. Our first Jewish guest this week is Matthew Futterman, deputy sports editor at The New York Times and author of the new book, Running to the...
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Jews Across America, 2019
In honor of the 4th of July, we present our second annual Jews Across America episode, celebrating the diversity of Jewish life throughout this great nation. (You can listen to last year’s episode...
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Live From Queens
This episode was recorded live at the Hollis Hills Bayside Jewish Center in Queens. Our Jewish guest is Leon Neyfakh, who hosts the new podcast Fiasco, which tells the story of the 2000 election. He...
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Finding Your Truth
This week in News of the Jews, Israel’s new education minister endorsed gay conversion therapy, a controversial and widely discredited practice. We’re bringing you an interview (recorded before those...
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Thanks, Grandma
At four years old, most human children cannot yet read or write. At four years old, a Great Dane is halfway through its lifespan. And the leading Jewish podcast at four years old? Why, it’s just...
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Facts and Feelings
It’s that time of the year: The Unorthodox fundraising drive! Help us keep going strong in 5780 and beyond—donate here. Our Jewish guest this week is Liz Feldman, writer and creator of Dead to Me, the...
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Feeding Fleishman
Donate to the Unorthodox fundraising drive and help us keep going strong! Our Jewish guest is Taffy Brodesser-Akner, New York Times Magazine writer and author of Fleishman Is in Trouble. She tells us...
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BYOBubbies
Don’t forget to donate to the Unorthodox fundraiser! Help us keep going strong in 5780 and beyond. This week on Unorthodox: A whole lot of Jewish guests! First we sit down with Cindy Chupack, an...
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The Mezuzah Chronicles
This week: a special update from Stephanie’s apartment and a reminder to donate to the Unorthodox fundraiser! Gifts of $180 and above get you a hot-off-the-press copy of our forthcoming book, The...
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Let’s Stay Together
This week, we’re pledging our loyalty to Unorthodox with two amazing Jewish guests. Our first guest is actress Michaela Watkins, who you’ve seen in shows like Casual, Transparent, and The New...
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Sababa Secrets
The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia, our guide to all things Jewish (and Jew-ish), is out next month! Preorder your copy today and you could win a Zabar’s gift basket—to enter, forward a copy of your...
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Love and Prizes
Join us for The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia launch party next Wednesday, Sept. 18, at 7:30 p.m. at the JCC Manhattan! There will be wine from our friends at Unorthodox Wines, and you’ll be able to buy...
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The One With the Instagram Rabbis
This week we’re going to party like it’s 5779, while we still can. First we sit down with Samantha Frank and Rena Singer, the rabbi and rabbinical student behind Modern Ritual, which models passionate,...
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The Apology Episode, 5780
We’re closing the book on 5780 with our fifth annual apology episode (listen to previous years’ episodes here). There are stories of apologies, discussions about friendship, and an exploration of one...
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The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia
The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia, our guide to all things Jewish (and Jew-ish), is here! To celebrate, we put together a very special episode featuring some familiar voices. Get a taste of the book from...
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Going Viral
This week on Unorthodox, a special live show recorded at the San Francisco JCC. We’re joined by guest host Bari Weiss, New York Times opinion editor and writer and the author of How to Fight...
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The 200th Episode
This week on Unorthodox, we’re celebrating all the Jewish holidays, including reaching our 200th episode! We talk to a gematria expert to find out just what the number 200 symbolizes in Jewish...
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Pittsburgh, One Year Later
This week on Unorthodox, we’re marking the one-year anniversary of the Tree of Life shooting in Pittsburgh, which occurred on Oct. 27, 2019. Two days after the shooting, we aired a special episode...
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Big Mouths
This week on Unorthodox, comedian Nick Kroll returns to the show to talk about Big Mouth, his raunchy Netflix animated show about puberty, now in its third season. He tells us about hosting Purim...
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Unorthodox Unedited: Two Jews, Infinite Opinions
We’re taking this week off, but we wanted to bring you an unedited look into a conversation Mark was desperate to set up between two of his friends, Liel Leibovitz and Jay Michaelson. These are two...
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The Rabbi and the Revolutionary
This week on Unorthodox, we’re coming to you from Temple Beth El in Stamford, Connecticut. Our Jewish guest is Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, author of more than 15 books, including the recently updated and...
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Philadelphia Shel Zahav
This week on Unorthodox, we’re coming to you from, well, all over the place. First, we check in on our hosts to see what was up when they were in Cincinnati this past weekend, and we even get some news...
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Breaking 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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Prep-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...
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Tradition 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...
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Hanukkah 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...
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Christmas 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...
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Best 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...
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All 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...
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Speak 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...
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Knowing, 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,...
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Soul 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...
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Whole 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...
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Working 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...
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Truth 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...
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Heat 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,...
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Unorthodox 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...
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An 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,...
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Bonus: 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...
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Mailing 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...
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Bonus: 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...
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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...
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