On Unorthodox, Jamie Kirchick on the End of Europe and Negin Farsad on Comedy...
This week on Unorthodox, don’t even think about cutting Israel out of Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat. Our Jewish guest is journalist and Tablet columnist Jamie Kirchick, who returns to the show...
View ArticleUnorthodox's Summer Camp Episode: Color War, Yiddishist Camps, Campfire...
Break out the bug juice—it’s summer-camp week on Unorthodox! We’re talking campfires, Color War, and Mark’s traumatic summer at a nudist camp. Our first guest is Sandy Fox, a doctoral candidate...
View ArticleJuly 25: 'Unorthodox' Live in NYC with Haroon Moghul and Harry Enten!
Calling all Jews and honorary Jews of New York City! Please join us Tuesday, July 25 at 7:30pm at JCC Manhattan for a live recording of Unorthodox with two very special guests: Haroon Moghul, author of...
View ArticleOn Unorthodox, Historian Jenna Weissman Joselit and Cat Therapist Carole...
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....
View ArticleOn Unorthodox, Film Critic Jordan Hoffman and Trainer-Turned-Shaman Stacy Berman
This week on Unorthodox, we find out Mark isn’t the only Oppenheimer who sneaks into movies without paying. We have two Jewish guests on this episode. First, our favorite film critic Jordan Hoffman...
View Article10 Reasons to Come See Unorthodox Live on July 25
Are you overwhelmed by the heat? Underwhelmed by the Mets? Just feeling, well, whelmed by life? We’ve got the perfect fix: an evening with Unorthodox, Tablet’s podcast where we Jews have opinions, and...
View ArticleUnorthodox Live With FiveThirtyEight's Harry Enten and ‘How to Be a Muslim’...
This week, we’re coming at you live from JCC Manhattan, with some very special guests.Continue reading "Unorthodox Live With FiveThirtyEight's Harry Enten and ‘How to Be a Muslim’ Author Haroon...
View ArticleFor Unorthodox's 100th Episode, We Turn the Microphones Around and Interview...
We’re celebrating two years—and 100 episodes!—of Unorthodox with a very unorthodox fundraising drive. We’ve put together a bunch of fun gifts, from tote bags to studio visits to a cocktail party with...
View ArticleOn Unorthodox, 'Soon By You,' a Web Series About Dating While Modern...
If you love listening to Unorthodox every week, please consider making a donation to keep us going for another hundred episodes. We put together a bunch of fun gifts, from tote bags to studio visits...
View ArticleOn Unorthodox, Sarah Bunim Benor on talking Jewish and architect Duo...
If you love listening to Unorthodox every week, please consider donating to keep us going for another hundred episodes. We put together a bunch of fun gifts for donors, from tote bags to a tour of...
View ArticleThe Unorthodox Wedding Episode! Featuring Anita Diamant, Amichai Lau-Lavie,...
If you love listening to Unorthodox every week, please consider making a donation before our fundraising drive ends next week. This week on Unorthodox, an all-star roster of guests explain everything...
View ArticleOn Unorthodox, The German-Danish Historian Teaching Ethics at Auschwitz, Plus...
This episode is brought to you by the letter A, for ally. Our Jewish guest is Brooke Kroeger, author of The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote. She tells us about the men whose support...
View ArticleUnorthodox: Writer Annabelle Gurwitch On Her Crazy Southern Jewish Family,...
This week on Unorthodox: We recap the Butnick-Cohen nuptials, Liel has a big reveal, and our guests wrestle with complicated legacies—both personal and political. And, we’ve got another live show...
View ArticleUnorthodox's Yom Kippur Apology Episode, With Mark Osler, Vanessa Zoltan, Ari...
This week on Unorthodox, we’re all about atonement. For our third annual apology episode, we’re joined by University of Nebraska–Lincoln professor Ari Kohen, who explains what makes an apology truly...
View ArticleOn Unorthodox, Rabbi Shai Held Offers Realistic Advice for 5778
This week on Unorthodox, we’re all about 5778. Our guest this week is Rabbi Shai Held, president and dean of the continuing education institute Mechon Hadar, and the author of The Heart of Torah, a...
View ArticleOn Unorthodox, Obama Speechwriter David Litt and Foreign Policy Expert Thomas...
Our Jewish guest this week is David Litt, author of Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years, a memoir about his time as a speechwriter in the Obama White House. He tells us about teaching...
View ArticleUnorthodox Live With 'It's All Relative' Author A.J. Jacobs and 'Transparent'...
This week on Unorthodox, we’re coming at you live from the JCC Manhattan with two great guests, an audience-wide game of Jewish geography, and much more. Our Jewish guest is writer A.J. Jacobs, who...
View ArticleOn Unorthodox, Alice Hoffman's 'Practical Magic' Prequel, Neo-Pagan Priest...
This week on Unorthodox, we’re totally bewitched. Our Jewish guest is novelist Alice Hoffman, whose new book is The Rules of Magic, a prequel to her bestselling 1995 novel Practical Magic, which was...
View ArticleOn Unorthodox, Kale and Caramel Blogger Lily Diamond and Emma's Torch Founder...
This week on Unorthodox, we’ve got food on the brain. Our first guest is Kerry Brodie, founder of Emma’s Torch, a cafe in Brooklyn that employs and trains refugees and political-asylum seekers. She...
View ArticleOn Unorthodox, 'Bad Rabbi' Author Eddy Portnoy and Washington Post Religion...
This week on Unorthodox, we can’t be tamed. Our Jewish guest is Eddy Portnoy, senior researcher and director of exhibitions at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, whose new book is Bad Rabbi: And...
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