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Facts and Feelings: Ep. 190

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

It’s that time of the year: The Unorthodox fundraising drive! Help us keep going strong in 5780 and beyond—donate here. Our Jewish guest this week is Liz Feldman, writer and creator of Dead to Me, the new Netflix series starring Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini. She tells us about the Jewish elements of the hit traumedy which was just renewed for a second season. Our Gentile of the Week is Dennis Schleicher, who shares his conversion story. After coming out as gay as a teenager and leaving his family and their evangelical church, he ends up converting to Mormonism as an adult. (His book is called ‘Is He Nuts: Why a Gay Man Would Become a Member of the Church of Jesus Christ.’) It’s the last week to fill out our listener survey for a chance to win an autographed copy of our forthcoming book, The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia.. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get new episodes, photos, and more. Email us at Unorthodox@tabletmag.com or leave a message at our listener line: 914-570-4869. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and join our Facebook group. This episode is brought to you by Harry’s. Get a free trial shave set when you sign up at Harrys.com/Unorthodox

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What better way to be proudly Jewish right now than with our book, the Newish Jewish Encyclopedia?

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It's the perfect coffee table book for your proud Jewish home,

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and it covers everything from Jewish history pop culture holidays and of course food

0:14.2

all with our trademark irreverence and love our publisher is offering a special

0:18.8

20% discount on newest Jewish and their entire Hanukah shop. So head to artisan books

0:23.3

and use the code unorthodox at check out. That's artisan books.com discount code

0:28.6

unorthodox all caps. Congratulations, Mark.

0:34.0

I did it. I got Billy Joel saw it.

0:35.0

This might have been.

0:36.0

Peake Oppenheimer.

0:38.0

This is unorthodox.

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The Universe's leading Jewish podcast.

0:42.0

I am Mark Oppenheimer,

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joined as ever by two co-hosts.

0:46.0

One is tablet deputy editor Stephanie Butnik.

0:49.0

Good day.

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Good day to you.

0:51.0

And the other phoning in from the mountain time zone is

0:54.3

tablet senior writer Leoivitz. As we say here in South Dakota,

0:58.4

aloha. What are you wearing Leal? This is the thing. I'm in bed in my Holiday and Express, you know, hotel.

1:08.0

What time is it then? And I'm only wearing, like, I'm only slightly less dressed than I would be if I came to the studio this morning.

1:17.0

I like that Mark has now asked to like talked about your clothing several times in consecutive episodes on this show.

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