Booking It: Ep. 260

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Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

This week on Unorthodox, two Jewish guests and a whole lot of books. Our first guest is Zibby Owens, host of the podcast “Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books.” She tells us about tirelessly promoting book authors during the pandemic, even as she dealt with her own family’s COVID-19 trauma (and planned two Zoom bar and bat mitzvahs). The resulting quarantine anthology, Moms Don’t Have Time To, features essays from more than 60 writers, including a few Unorthodox guests. Our second guest is poet David Beispiel, whose recent memoir is A Place of Exodus: Home, Memory, and Texas. He tells us about being kicked out of Hebrew School as a questioning teen in Houston’s heavily Jewish Meyerland community, and ultimately being pulled back to Jewish Houston after years of spiritual and physical wandering. We’re looking for two new hosts for our kids game show podcast Hebrew School! All you need to do is record a short video introducing yourself and telling us why you'd make the perfect host, and send it to hebrewschool@tabletmag.com. Do you have a great Jewish name or know someone with a great Jewish name? Enter our Jewish Name of the Year bracket! Email your suggestions to unorthodox@tabletmag.com. As always, let us know what you think of the show! Send us comments and questions 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. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get new episodes, photos, and more. Get a behind-the-scenes look at our recording sessions on our YouTube channel! Join our Facebook group, and follow Unorthodox on Twitter and Instagram. 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. The Branch is a podcast that shares stories about Jews and Arabs, Israelis and Palestinians who are breaking barriers, creating bonds, having tough conversations, and demonstrating what equal, shared society can look like. Listen to the branch wherever you get your podcasts or at hadassah.org/thebranch. American Jewish World Service grantees are leading the effort to promote human rights, empower women and girls to fight for equal rights, and advance environmental justice in the face of climate change. AJWS is currently twice-matching all donations; find out more and make your donation at AJWS.org/unorthodox. Harry’s is a great shave at a great price. New customers can get a Harry’s trial shave set for just $3 at harrys.com/unorthodox.

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0:00.0	Bolton of course is a very interesting Amelgam.
0:02.2	Is that how you say that word, Amelgam?
0:04.5	Amalgam.
0:05.1	Maybe it is Amalgam.
0:06.1	I like Amelgam.
0:07.3	Amelgam.
0:08.3	I always thought it was an Amalgum, but I don't think I've ever said the word out
0:10.6	loud, because I'm not quite sure. Somebody is because I'm not a pretentious asshole Mark.
0:15.0	Now that I hear it, it's probably amalgam.
0:17.0	This is on Orthodox, the universe is leaving Jewish podcast.
0:22.0	I'm your host Mark Oppenheimer joined as ever by my
0:25.0	fellow hosts, they are tablet deputy editor Stephanie Butnik.
0:29.1	Hello. And the tablet editor-at-large,el-Liboyes.
0:33.6	To be shvats,
0:34.8	and this week we bring you a conversation with Ziby Owens.
0:39.8	She's the host of the Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books Podcast, and she's talking about her new quarantine
0:44.3	anthology. It was only a matter of time before the core anthologies came out and this is one of the first.
0:49.3	We also spoke with David Bicepiel. It was a while ago, but we're running it now. It's about his memoir, A Place of Exodus, Home, Memory, and Texas. That's right, Texas.
0:58.0	So so much good stuff going on. We're going to have an update on the Jewish Name of the Year competition. Before we get to all of that great stuff.
1:05.2	Stephanie Butnik, how are you?
1:07.0	I'm good. I want to tell you something that I did recently. So a big issue in my marriage is the fact that I have not read the Great
1:12.1	Gatsby.
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