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Free Event: 'Unorthodox' is Coming to Temple Israel in West Palm Beach on 2/10
Call your bubbe: Unorthodox is coming to Florida! Please join us on Friday, February 10 at 7:30 p.m. at Temple Israel in West Palm Beach for a live recording of our popular podcast with two very...
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An Unorthodox Valentine: Ayelet Waldman, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and Andrea...
This week on Unorthodox, we’re getting into the Valentine’s Day spirit. Or, as we call it around here, Secular Tu B’Av. Our Jewish guest is Israeli-American novelist and essayist Ayelet Waldman, whose...
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On Unorthodox, Miami Jewish Film Festival director Igor Shteyrenberg and...
This episode was recorded live at Temple Israel in West Palm Beach, Florida. Our Jewish guest is Igor Shteyrenberg, director of the Miami Jewish Film Festival, which in five years he grew from an...
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On Unorthodox, Scott Feinberg Talks Oscars and Molly Yeh Brings...
This week on Unorthodox, someone paid $243,000 for Hitler’s old phone. We’ve got two Jewish guests this week! Our first guest is Scott Feinberg, the awards columnist for The Hollywood Reporter and...
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On Unorthodox, Leah Green and Freddy McConnell From The Guardian's ‘Token’...
This week on Unorthodox, we check in with Jake Turx, the now-famous Orthodox reporter who asked Trump about anti-Semitism. Our guests this week are Leah Green and Freddy McConnell, co-hosts of The...
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On Unorthodox, 'Off the Rails' Filmmaker Adam Irving and Macy Halford, Author...
This week on Unorthodox, Jewish baseball is having a moment. Our Jewish guest is Adam Irving, whose documentary Off the Rails tells the story of Darius McCollum, an obsessive transit buff with...
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Recipe: Molly Yeh's Marzipan Sprinkle Hamantaschen
We were delighted to have the food writer and photographer Molly Yeh, author of Molly on the Range, on our podcast Unorthodox a couple of weeks ago. She talked to us about studying percussion at...
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On Unorthodox, Israeli Filmmaker Shimon Dotan Discusses His Documentary ‘The...
This week on Unorthodox, Mark ditches us for the Holy Land. It was snowing in New York, but we trudged to the studio and were graciously joined by Israeli filmmaker Shimon Dotan, whose latest film is...
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Unorthodox Ep. 83: Novelist Sana Krasikov and Political Strategist Patrick...
This week on Unorthodox, Mel Gibson gives tzedakah. Our Jewish guest is Ukrainian-born writer Sana Krasikov, whose latest novel, The Patriots, explores the effects of the Cold War on three generations...
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Unorthodox Ep. 84: Daphne Merkin on Depression and 'Oprah' Favorite Father Ed...
This week on Unorthodox: A Jewish writer and an Episcopal priest walk into a podcast. Our Jewish guest is writer and essayist Daphne Merkin, whose latest book is This Close to Happy: A Reckoning With...
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On Unorthodox: A Super-Special Pre-Passover Bagel Binge!
This week on Unorthodox, we’re filling up on chametz before Passover starts. We talk to bagel makers from Montreal to Australia (and Cleveland!), get the scoop on the bagel scene in Israel, and find...
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On Unorthodox, the Filmmaker Asking Whether We Can Joke About the Holocaust;...
This week on Unorthodox, we’re still trying to find those Holocaust centers Sean Spicer was talking about. Our Jewish guest is filmmaker Ferne Pearlstein, whose latest documentary, The Last Laugh,...
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Unorthodox Ep. 87: 'Arq' Founder Danya Shults and Michael Knowles, the...
This week on Unorthodox, we speak to the author of Donald Trump’s favorite book. Our Jewish guest is Danya Shults, the founder of Arq, a website and community inspired by Jewish culture. She tells us...
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Unorthodox Ep. 88: Joan Nathan’s Latest Cookbook and Rob Sheffield’s New Book...
This week on Unorthodox: chocolate sausage! Our Jewish guest is Tablet’s food columnist, Joan Nathan. Her latest cookbook is King Solomon’s Table: A Culinary Exploration of Jewish Cooking from Around...
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On Unorthodox, 'Latter Day Jew' H. Alan Scott on Converting to Judaism at 31...
This week on Unorthodox, Bieber fever literally sends an Israeli woman into labor. Our guest this week is comedian and writer H. Alan Scott, who was raised Mormon in St. Louis and converted to Judaism...
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On Unorthodox, South African Israeli comfort food at Jack’s Wife Freda, and...
This week on Unorthodox, Mark goes to Alaska, and our producer Shira Telushkin fills in as a co-host. We’ve got two Jewish guests this week. First we talk to Maya Jankelowitz, who along with her...
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On Unorthodox, Novelist Ruth Gilligan on Writing Irish Jews and Yascha Mounk...
This week on Unorthodox, we’re breaking down Donald Trump’s Holy Land adventure. Our Jewish guest is Yascha Mounk, a lecturer at Harvard whose area of research—how to preserve liberal democracy in the...
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On Unorthodox, Stephen Tobolowsky on Being Jewish in Hollywood; Stephen...
This week on Unorthodox, we’re still full from all that cheesecake. Our Jewish guest is actor Stephen Tobolowsky, who currently plays Jack Barker on HBO’s Silicon Valley, and whose latest book is My...
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On Unorthodox, 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' Actor Jonathan Frakes and...
This week on Unorthodox, we’re all about Wonder Woman. Our Jewish guest is Fred Kuhr, who hosts The Point, a Toronto-based talk show that brings gay and straight men together “to see what happens.” He...
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On Unorthodox, Discussing The Way Jews Talk With Linguist John McWhorter,...
This week on Unorthodox, we recorded a special crossover episode with Lexicon Valley, the podcast hosted by linguist John McWhorter. John was a guest on our show in December 2016, and when we weren’t...
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