Family Affair: Ep. 279

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

This week on Unorthodox, vegemite drama in Israel. Our first guest is Shira Haas, the Israeli actress best known for her starred role on the Netflix series Unorthodox and the Israeli hit Shtisel. She tells us about learning English by watching TV as a kid, how she responds to criticism of Unorthodox’s portrayal of Orthodox Judaism, and her upcoming role as Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. Our next guest is Daniel Oppenheimer, brother of our host Mark, who returns to the show to tell us about his latest book, an appreciation of the critic Dave Hickey. Send us your stories for our upcoming special episodes. Were you or someone you know a Jewish scout? Do you have stories of apologies given or owed, for our annual Yom Kippur Apology episode? Leave us a voicemail (under a minute long) at (914) 570-4869, or record a voice memo on your phone and email it to unorthodox@tabletmag.com to be featured on the episode. Like the show? Rate us on iTunes! Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get new episodes, photos, and more. Join our Facebook group, and follow Unorthodox on Twitter and Instagram. Get a behind-the-scenes look at our recording sessions on our YouTube channel! 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. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

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0:00.0	This is Unorthodox, Universe's leading Jewish podcast.
0:05.3	I'm your host, Mark Oppenheimer.
0:06.7	Join us ever by my fellow hosts.
0:09.1	They are Tablet Editor-it-Large, Liya Leibovic, and his boss, Tablet Deputy Editor,
0:17.2	Stephanie Bhattnet.
0:18.2	You know, thank you.
0:19.2	It's important that we all remember that every now and then.
0:21.0	The boss of all the bosses.
0:23.2	We're actually in the newsletter this week, just going to post the whole Tablet Magazine
0:26.3	org chart, so we know who answers to whom.
0:28.8	That would entail creating a Tablet Magazine org chart, which I believe 12 years later,
0:33.2	we still don't have.
0:34.2	There's a lot of dotted lines.
0:35.4	I have a dotted line to Liya and a hyphenated line to Stephanie.
0:39.4	And we all have a dotted line to Hashem.
0:42.0	This is how it works.
0:43.0	That's right.
0:44.0	We all work full-time for Hashem, Tablet Magazine.
0:45.5	It's all we can hope for, really.
0:47.1	We have no Gentiles on the show this week.
0:49.2	Not a one.
0:50.2	There will be no Gentile vibe or mojo on the show this week, but we have two Jewish guests.
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