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Birthright for WASPs?: Ep. 102

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

If you love listening to Unorthodox every week, please consider donating to keep us going for another hundred episodes. We put together a bunch of fun gifts, from tote bags to studio visits to an exclusive Sept. 6 cocktail party in New York City with Mark, Liel, and Stephanie. Our Jewish guest is linguist Sarah Bunin Benor, an expert in Jewish languages and the author of Becoming Frum: How Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox Judaism, an in-depth study of American Jewish language. She breaks down the linguistic 'tells' of Orthodox Jews, explains how religious Jews often code switch depending on their audience, and describes her experience as a non-Orthodox Jew immersing herself in Orthodox homes and communities for research. Our gentile of the week is architect and card-carrying WASP Duo Dickinson, who returns to the show to tell us about his forthcoming book, A Home Called New England. He also tells us what it's like being a white Christian male in America today, especially one who loves football, and poses an interesting question: Are week-long summer trips to Vermont essentially Birthright for WASPS? 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. This episode is brought to you by Jewish Lives, biographies that illuminate the Jewish experience. Visit JewishLives.org to get 25 percent off all books and curated collections with the code JLBOOKS. Music: "Mikveh Bath" by Golem "C.R.E.A.M." by Wu-Tang Clan "A Duo" by James Horner, from the film An American Tail "F Minor Klezmer" by The Underscore Orkestra

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unorthodox all caps.

0:33.0

Leal is promised no F-bomb's, but we have some pretty

0:36.4

racy Jew and Gentiles of the week.

0:39.4

But not racist.

0:40.4

They might, they might drop an F-bomb or an S-bomb or this bomb or that bomb. So here's your

0:44.6

personality warning if you if that frightens you get the for bringing kids

0:48.0

out of the house. Tell them to go the foot bringing to sleep. So I think that I'm a little bit like Donald Trump in that I

0:54.2

listen to the advice of the person like you told me you're saying I should get a cat now like

0:57.6

I'm going to text Ben being like I'm like that. Get a cast. I'm

1:00.7

I'm much and get a cat and so the day that that cat therapist came I also went to my acupuncture

1:05.0

is and I will just believe anything he tells me and that's why I like bruises

1:08.2

all up and down my back. It's important to believe I think.

1:12.1

Hello Jay crew this is, the world's leading Jewish podcast.

1:15.0

I am your host Mark Oppenheimer in the waning days of summer.

1:18.0

Are we in an Indian summer yet?

1:20.0

That's racist.

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