A Little Bit of Turkey and Latkes: Ep. 252

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Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

This week, a mini-holiday mashup. First, associate producer Robert Scaramuccia brings us the story of Aaron Hartman, a Jewish man from Atlanta, GA with Williams Syndrome, and his very unique pandemic birthday present. We also bring you a Hanukkah gift guide that includes products our listeners make themselves! Find these suggestions and more by joining our Facebook group. Join the hosts Wednesday, Dec. 2 at 7 p.m. E.S.T. for the Museum of Jewish Heritage’s Generation to Generation event, which is honoring the Butnick family. Stephanie will be interviewing Michael Zegen from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and the band Golem will be performing. Register at bit.ly/butnickfam. Celebrate the first night of Hanukkah with Stephanie, Mayim Bialik, and G.L.O.W. star Jackie Tohn at NuRoots’ “First Night” event, Thursday, Dec. 10 at 7 p.m. P.S.T. Register at nuroots.org/firstnight. Let us know what you think of the show! Send us comments and questions at unorthodox@tabletmag.com, or leave us a voicemail at (914) 570-4869. You can also record a voice memo on your smartphone and email it to us. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get new episodes, photos, and more. Get a behind-the-scenes look at our recording sessions on our YouTube channel! Follow Unorthodox on Twitter and Instagram. Get your Unorthodox T-shirts, mugs, and baby onesies at bit.ly/unorthoshirt. Shalom, friends

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0:00.0	Here goes nothing.
0:01.0	This is unorthodox, the universe is the leading Jewish podcast.
0:06.7	I'm Stephanie Butnik and I am your only host this week.
0:09.8	Today is Thanksgiving and while this year is certainly different from all other years, I know we're all thinking a lot about is This week an unusual mashup of an episode.
0:23.0	No Lial, no Mark, no mailbox, but I like to thank what I have to offer you will more than make up for all the absences.
0:30.0	We've crowdsourced some great Hanukkah gift ideas from you, the J crew, and I have some holiday
0:35.0	suggestions of my own to add.
0:37.1	That'll be later in the show.
0:38.9	But first, something very, very special.
0:41.8	The story you're about to hear comes to us from our associate
0:43.9	producer Robert Scaramutia and it offers a new perspective about all that human
0:48.6	contact we're missing out on these days during the pandemic. Robert brings us the
0:52.4	story of Aaron Hartman, a Jewish man from Atlanta, Georgia.
0:55.5	Aaron has Williams Syndrome, a genetic disorder witch, among other symptoms, is typified by an
1:00.8	extremely outgoing personality.
1:03.0	These past nine months have been difficult for Aaron,
1:05.0	who no longer sees as many people as he used to.
1:08.0	In normal times, he is a supermarket greeter,
1:11.0	a regular synagogue hopper, and generally a man about town in his Atlanta
1:15.0	neighborhood. Now of course he's mostly by himself but not entirely as we're
1:20.5	about to learn. Here's Robert with a story about family, community, and
1:26.1	firehouses. You're going to do. Aaron Hartman isn't a politician, but if he was, he'd be a good one.
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