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Dear Unorthodox: Ep. 118

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

We'll be recording live at the Manhattan JCC on Wednesday 1/24 at with special guests Judy Gold and Father James Martin! Get your tickets here. This week on Unorthodox, we respond to your questions on everything from Jewish pregnancy superstitions to what to read and watch while converting to Judaism. Plus we dive into the great tin foil vs. plastic baggie debate. Want more Unorthodox in your life? Join our Facebook group to chat with the hosts and see what happens behind-the-scenes! And sign up for our weekly newsletter here. We love hearing from our listeners. Please send your feedback to unorthodox@tabletmag.com—we may read your comments on the air.

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0:00.0

Hi friends this is our last episode of 2017 and boy has this year been a doozy I can't promise that we're not gonna curse because we are so effin

0:08.8

excited to have 2017 be almost over so So for bringing excited. So bring it 2018. This has been your

0:15.3

obscenity warning.

0:18.1

Hello J crew this is Mark Oppenheimer happy almost Gentile New Year. We are all

0:28.0

away on a beach somewhere either literally or on the great sandy beach of our

0:31.8

minds but we have a new episode for you recorded a couple weeks ago. or on the great sandy beach of our minds.

0:32.8

But we have a new episode for you, recorded a couple weeks ago.

0:35.0

It's our long planned advice episode for you to listen to on whatever beach you may currently occupy.

0:41.0

You may remember a couple months ago, we put out the call for questions. We said

0:43.6

write to us, you guys are always asking for advice anyway. So here we are. We put out the

0:48.4

call for questions. You sent them in and for today's episode we've selected

0:52.2

some of the best letters, thought deeply

0:54.1

about them, researched them, and come up with some answers for you. Our first question

1:00.7

it comes from Upper East Side of Manhattan resident Miranda Hilliard.

1:04.6

Hello my number one Jewish podcast friends, Miranda writes, I am a Gentile

1:09.0

listener in the Upper East Side, though I am current, I like how she says in the

1:12.3

Upper East Side, just what I would have said on, but she does in the upper east side.

1:13.0

So I would have said on, but she's in it.

1:15.0

It's a state of mind.

1:16.0

It's a state of mind.

1:18.0

I'm a Gentile listener in the upper east side,

1:20.0

though I am currently undergoing study for a liberal, no literally unorthodox,

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