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All's Fair in Love and J-War Ep. 3

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Tablet staffers Mark Oppenheimer, Liel Leibovitz, and Stephanie Butnick sound off about the (legal) battle of the Jewish dating apps, a crowd-funded effort to reelect Canada's Jewish prime minister, and a Nazi-themed romance novel. Ophira Eisenberg, stand-up comic and host of NPR's quiz show 'Ask Me Another,' discusses the politics of strangers touching pregnant women's bumps, and why her NPR celebrity status matters not at all to her big Canadian family. Humor writer and guest non-Jew Henry Alford asks why his gaydar doesn't seem to work for Jewish guys, who all seem to own multiple sweaters and have close relationships with their mothers.You can find more about Ophira Eisenberg, plus her stand-up schedule, here: http://ophiraeisenberg.com/. For more about Henry Alford, check out his website, http://henryalford.com/.For more Unorthodox, visit tabletmag.com/unorthodox. Let us know what you think of Unorthodox: emailunorthodox@tabletmag.com

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0:00.0

You know what they say?

0:03.0

Two Jews Five Opinions.

0:04.2

Welcome to UnOrthodox, a weekly podcast

0:06.2

from tablet magazine in which we talk about the news of the Jews.

0:09.4

I'm Mark Oppenheimer, and as ever I'm joined by my tablet colleagues, senior writer Leibovis,

0:14.0

Hello hello, hello Leel.

0:16.0

And phoning in the Rockies, deputy editor Stephanie Butnick.

0:20.0

Hi.

0:21.0

Hi.

0:22.0

Later in the show we'll be talking with Storyteller and Radio Jewess Ophira Eisenberg.

0:26.0

And as our guest Gentile of the week,

0:28.0

Humorist and Manor's Maven Henry Alford.

0:30.0

But first, a little news of the Jews.

0:32.0

Two big stories coming out of New York City this week, John Stewart signed off,

0:36.0

handing the reins to the comedy horse over to New Jockey Trevor Noah,

0:40.0

who got off to a rocky start with the Jews back when he was appointed

0:42.0

when they found

0:43.1

some Twitter jokes that some people found offensive but if John Stewart

0:46.4

believes in you so do we did he say comedy horse or comedy hoars horse ho the

0:51.2

latter would have been funny.

0:53.0

But if John Stewart believes in you, so do we.

0:56.0

Trevor, we forgive you. We grant you Jewish absolution if you promise to come on our show.

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