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Betting the House: Ep. 99

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Episode description: This week, we’re coming at you live from JCC Manhattan, with some very special guests and other fun surprises. But first: If you're a fan of Unorthodox—and if you're reading this, you must be!—please consider making a donation to our fundraising drive so we can keep producing the podcast you love for another 99 episodes. We've put together a whole range of fun gifts to sweeten the deal, from tote bags to studio visits to a cocktail party with Mark, Liel, and Stephanie. Our Jew of the week is Harry Enten, senior political writer and analyst for FiveThirtyEight and a regular on the site’s Politics Podcast. He tells us about the Catskills resort his grandparents owned—where Neil Sedaka met Enten’s aunt, whom he later married—plus why he loves Twitter, where he has nearly 95,000 followers, and what dating was like as a poll analyst after the election. Our Gentile of the Week is Haroon Moghul, author of How to Be a Muslim: An American Story and a fellow in Jewish-Muslim Relations at the Shalom Hartman Institute. He tells us the dumbest things he’s been asked while promoting his book, plus how a 2015 trip to Israel with Muslim and Jewish leaders changed the course of his career, and what he wants the rest of us to know about American Muslims. Sign up for our weekly newsletter to get new episodes, behind-the-scenes photos, and more! Email us at Unorthodox@tabletmag.com—we may read your note on air. Follow us on Twitter: @tabletmag, @markopp1, @liel, and @stuffism. Today's podcast is sponsored by Jewish Lives, biographies that illuminate the Jewish experience. Visit JewishLives.org to get 25% off all books and curated collections with the code JLBOOKS. Music: "Mikveh Bath" by Golem "Ruthless" by the Statler Brothers "Harry Enten is Looking for a Girlfriend" by Jonathan Mann "Love Will Keep Us Together" by Neil Sedaka "Mounsell Forts/Accent on the 'A'" by Roger Plexico, prod. Squish Turner, ft. Haroon Mogul

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0:00.0

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

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

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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 checkout. That's artisan books.com discount code

0:28.6

unorthodox all caps. Before anything else we have to do a Gentile check.

0:35.0

Are there any Gentiles in the audience?

0:36.0

Besides the one we asked to be here today.

0:39.0

There's two right there.

0:40.0

Let's hear it up for the, give it up for the Gentiles. This is a really, really safe space for the Gentiles. So I actually

0:51.6

didn't have a chance to do the obscenity warning

0:53.4

before the show.

0:55.2

Does one of you want to give the obscenity warning?

0:57.7

Do I have a volunteer?

0:58.4

If someone I just like to say, there'll be a lot of swearing.

1:00.7

Beware.

1:01.1

You could introduce yourself.

1:02.2

You could. Do I have a volunteer? swearing beware you could introduce yourself you could do I volunteer

1:04.8

Come on yeah, okay. Okay. We've got an insanity warning person up there the least convenient person that's right

1:10.8

Participate

1:11.9

All right now be creative with this, okay?

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