Candy for Salome: Ep: 127

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Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Be part of our next Ask Unorthodox episode, airing during Passover. Send us your burning questions about Jewish ritual, culture, or traditions by March 9. Email them to Unorthodox@tabletmag.com or leave us a message at 914-570-4869. Our first guest is Israeli food writer and tv personality Gil Hovav, whose new memoir, Candies from Heaven, is about growing up in Jerusalem in a close-knit family (and not just any family: Hovav's great grandfather is Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, who revived the modern Hebrew language). Our second guest is Alan Robert Ginsberg, author of The Salome Ensemble: Rose Pastor Stokes, Anzia Yezierska, Sonya Levien, and Jetta Goudal, about the four Jewish women behind the novel and subsequent 1925 film Salome of the Tenements. Our next live show is Wednesday, March 21 at the JCC Manhattan. Tickets here. Show your love for Unorthodox with our new T-shirts, sweatshirts, and baby onesies. Get yours here: bit.ly/Unorthoshirt. 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. This episode is sponsored by Harry’s. Get a free trial shave set when you sign up at Harrys.com/Unorthodox.

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0:27.3	com discount code unorthodox all caps. It is still lent so Lial is still not swearing, but as you will hear on this
0:35.7	episode, I have big things to swear about. So if they're delicate ears nearby,
0:39.8	cover them. This has been your obscenity warning. I'm going to identify you as a historian.
0:44.0	Okay.
0:45.0	Sure.
0:47.0	Do you prefer a historian or an historian?
0:49.0	Whichever way you want to go.
0:51.0	Hello J crew, this is unorthodox, the world's leading Jewish podcast.
0:57.0	I am your host Mark Oppenheimer, joined this week by Deputy Editor Stephanie Butnik.
1:02.0	Hello.
1:03.0	And senior writer Leo Leibowitz.
1:05.0	A Helen, what's the Helen?
1:06.0	And this week there are two Jews of the week.
1:08.0	First, we're going to talk to Israeli food writing super star Gilhovov,
1:11.0	author of an amazing new memoir, and then historian Alan Robert Ginsburg, whose recent
1:15.3	book is about Jewish women in the early 20th century.
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