Expelliarmus! Ep. 26

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Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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This week on Unorthodox: Bloomberg, Bernie, and Trump, oh my! Our Jewish guest is Mark Seidenfeld, vice president and deputy general counsel at Scholastic, publisher of the wildly successful Harry Potter and The Hunger Games series. He tells us about traveling to Scotland to pick up a manuscript from Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling—and then sitting on it during the flight back to New York to keep it safe. Our non-Jewish guest is bioethicist and writer Alice Dreger, whose new book, Galileo’s Middle Finger, explores the at-times contentious clashes between scientists and activists throughout history. We love to hear from you! Email us at Unorthodox@tabletmag.com. Sign up for our weekly newsletter at http://bit.ly/UnorthodoxPodcast. This episode of Unorthodox is brought to you by Harry’s. Stop overpaying for a great shave. Go to Harrys.com and enter the code UNORTHODOX at checkout for $5 off your first order.

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0:00.0	What better way to be proudly Jewish right now than with our book, the Newish Jewish Encyclopedia?
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0:43.1	unorthodox at the checkout for five dollars off your first order.
0:49.3	Welcome to unorthodox, a weekly podcast from tablet magazine.
0:52.4	I'm Mark Oppenheimer, joined as ever by deputy editor
0:55.3	Stephanie Butnik. Hello. And senior writer Leah Leibowitz?
0:59.2	Boker Tochovarin. Indeed. will explain. And guess Gentile Alice Dregger, historian of science and author of Galileo's
1:14.7	Middlefinger. Yes, it's called Galileo's Middlefinger. We're not in North Carolina,
1:19.6	where we were supposed to be, because Tropical Storm Jonas had his way with a is it a tropical
1:24.2	storm what was Jonas it was a blizzard
1:26.7	blizzard jonis or was the the lord has has smote in us smitten us yeah we were smited
1:31.8	we were smoted we're the belly of a large fish so we are not in
1:35.6	North Carolina but we will be later this spring. We're sorry that we had to cancel our
1:39.0	show at American Hebrew Academy. Some news are the Jews, please, please.
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