Bonus: Israel Story's "Pigging Out"

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Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 25 November 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Unorthodox is off this week for Thanksgiving, but we're bringing you "Pigging Out," an episode from our friends at Israel Story: "Not once, but twice, does the Bible admonish us to abstain from eating the flesh of the pig. And though there are many other animals we are commanded to avoid, the pig has—over the centuries—become the quintessential symbol of all that is unkosher, impure, and morally reprehensible. But was that always the case? In an episode that starts in prehistoric times and ends in the 21st century, we explore the place of all kinds of porcines—from piggy banks to pork sausages and from wild boars to Iron Age bones—in Israeli society." Send us your stories for our Unorthodox Christmas episode at unorthodox@tabletmag.com, or leave us a voicemail at (914) 570-4869. You can also record a voice memo on your smartphone and email it to us. Unorthodox is produced by Tablet Studios. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation at bit.ly/givetounorthodox. Send comments and questions to unorthodox@tabletmag.com, or leave us a voicemail at (914) 570-4869. You can also record a voice memo on your smartphone and email it to us. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get new episodes, photos, and more. Join our Facebook group, and follow Unorthodox on Twitter and Instagram. Get a behind-the-scenes look at our recording sessions on our YouTube channel! Get your Unorthodox T-shirts, mugs, and baby onesies at bit.ly/unorthoshirt. Want to book us for a live show? Email producer Josh Kross at jkross@tabletmag.com. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

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0:00.0	Hey, J. Crew, it's Stephanie Batnik.
0:04.8	We are off this week for Thanksgiving, but our friends at Israel Story are putting out
0:09.2	some amazing episodes, and we wanted to share one of them with you.
0:12.7	This one, appropriately, is called Picking Out.
0:15.8	Hope you enjoy.
0:16.8	A few years ago, Lidar Sapirchen, a Zuo Archaeologist from Tel Aviv University, got
0:30.0	a call from two of her colleagues, Jo Ziel in Oltal Halaf.
0:35.2	They were in the middle of a day in Jerusalem city of David, and had just made an unusual
0:40.1	find.
0:41.1	I think the sun made a picture, and I said, OK, this mole animal is a pig.
0:44.7	So excavated carefully, and we want to see exactly how it was positioned when it died,
0:50.7	and what happened to it, and don't just take out the bones.
0:54.3	Following her instructions, they carefully unearthed the complete skeleton of a young piglet.
1:00.6	Who, 2700 years ago, was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
1:06.4	The sitting fell on it, and it was caught between the vessels on the floor.
1:11.6	Do you happen to have that pig here?
1:13.9	Yeah, I have it here.
1:15.4	Can I see?
1:16.4	Yeah, sure.
1:28.0	Where's the skull?
1:30.0	Yeah.
1:31.2	Yeah, that's the skull.
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