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Across the Pond: Ep. 123

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Recorded live at at the Limmud Festival, an international celebration of Jewish learning and culture, in Birmingham, U.K. over Christmas. Mark hosted the show with writer and challah maven Sarah Klegman. Our guests are Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell, a vocalist, composer, and arranger specializing in Yiddish art and folk song, and Gabby Edlin, the founder of Bloody Good Period, which provides sanitary supplies to asylum seekers, refugees & those who can't afford them. Tablet is conducting a reader survey, and we'd love to hear from Unorthodox listeners (even if you don't read Tablet and only listen to Unorthodox). Plus, you'll be entered to win a $250 Russ & Daughters gift card! Take the survey here. Upcoming events: Stephanie will be moderating a discussion between Simon Doonan and Jonathan Adler about their relationship and how Judaism figures in it on Thursday, February 15th at Congregation Rodeph Sholom in New York City. It's free—RSVP here. Our next live show is Wednesday, March 21 at the JCC Manhattan. Buy tickets here. Want more Unorthodox in your life? Join our Facebook group to chat with the hosts and see what happens behind-the-scenes! Sign up for our weekly newsletter to get new episodes, photos, and more. We love hearing from our listeners. Email us or leave a message at our new listener line: 914-570-4869. We may share your note on the air. This episode is sponsored by Harry’s. Get a free trial shave set when you sign up at Harrys.com/Unorthodox.

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0:00.0

What better way to be proudly Jewish right now than with our book, the Newish Jewish Encyclopedia?

0:07.0

It's the perfect coffee table book for your proud Jewish home,

0:10.0

and it covers everything from Jewish history pop culture holidays and of course food

0:14.2

all with our trademark irreverence and love our publisher is offering a special

0:18.8

20% discount on newest Jewish and their entire Hanukah shop. So head to artisan books

0:23.3

and use the code unorthodox at check out. That's artisan books.com discount code

0:28.6

unorthodox all caps. MMU D in Birmingham, England, which is a big, big convocation of a couple thousand Jews, most

0:46.4

of them British, but also from all over the English-speaking world, and France, and Israel, and

0:51.2

all over, where they come together for close to a week and they have

0:55.8

classes and teach-ins and anyone can teach and anyone can learn and they eat food

1:00.2

and they sing late at night at the bar and they basically have summer camp but

1:04.8

over Christmas break and because it's Christmas break they tell the hotel staff to

1:09.1

take the week off and basically the inmates run the asylum.

1:12.8

We did a live show at LAMood this year.

1:15.3

Enjoy.

1:16.2

Do you want to give the obscenity warning?

1:17.1

What's the obscenity warning?

1:17.9

It's where you say, we might say something that involves,

1:21.0

we might swear if they're kids in the rooms get them out you

1:23.8

can be whatever right now yeah go ahead this is your obscenity warning if there are

1:28.4

children in the room please give them earmuffs or escort them elsewhere

1:31.5

who that was good she did something do with it thank you the earmuffs or escort them elsewhere. Oh, that was good.

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