Ask Unorthodox: Passover Edition: Ep. 130

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Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 29 March 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Download your free copy of the Unorthodox Haggadah! This week on Unorthodox, everything you ever wanted to know about Passover. We answer listener questions, writer Roya Hakakian tells us about Persian Passover traditions, including scallion whipping at the Seder, and producer Josh Kross’s mother-in-law Elsie Apfelbaum shares the magic of Mimouna, the Moroccan festival celebrating the end of Passover (with some help from Josh’s daughter Stella). Jay Miah tells the story of how his father worked at the Streit’s Matzo Factory upon immigrating to America from Bangladesh, and humorist Adam Mansbach talks about comedic haggadot—he cowrote For This We Left Egypt with Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel—and the enduring power of the Passover story. 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. 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. Show your love for Unorthodox with our new T-shirts, sweatshirts, and baby onesies. Get yours here.

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0:00.0	Hello friends it is a holiday season a hog if you will a hog which means that to
0:08.2	honor God we should not be swearing we should use only the most elevated
0:11.7	language on the other hand this is a holiday season that's We should use only the most elevated language.
0:13.0	On the other hand, this is a holiday season that celebrates dividing a red sea and then drowning
0:16.9	lots of people behind us, and then wandering the desert for a very long time.
0:20.5	So my friends, there may be swearing on this show this has been your
0:24.3	obscenity warning. What is a Israeli rabbi is just the only way to make your mouth
0:28.2	kosher for Passover is to to gurgle with boiling water.
0:32.8	You go first.
0:36.3	Hello, Matsu eating people of the world.
0:39.3	This is unorthodox, the world's leading Jewish
0:41.9	podcast.
0:42.4	I am joined as ever by senior writer
0:44.6	Leal Leibouitz.
0:46.0	Hagse a me with a share of all of that and deputy editor Stephanie Butner
0:51.0	die die die now yay now.
0:54.0	Eelie, hoo, see, hoo.
0:56.0	This is our Passover episode.
0:58.0	This is, is it our second annual 30th, it's our first Passover episode?
1:01.0	It's actually our 57th, 78th episode. It's actually our 57th 78th. It's our 57th episode for
1:05.2	Peiag. Happy Passover to all of you. It's a special episode today in all
1:10.1	sorts of ways. We have a lot of terrific special parts moving parts to this
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