Family Matters Ep. 29

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Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2016

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This week on Unorthodox: Klezmer aerobics and the strangest bris story you've ever heard. Our Jewish guest is Daniel Oppenheimer, author of the new book, Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century. He’s also—you guessed it—the brother of our host Mark Oppenheimer. Our Gentile of the Week is novelist and essayist Roxane Gay, whose latest book, Bad Feminist, cleverly tackles issues in contemporary feminism alongside considerations of culture, identity, and race. We love to hear from you! Email us at Unorthodox@tabletmag.com. Sign up for our weekly newsletter at http://bit.ly/UnorthodoxPodcast.

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0:00.0	What better way to be proudly Jewish right now than with our book, the Newish Jewish Encyclopedia?
0:07.0	It's the perfect coffee table book for your proud Jewish home,
0:10.0	and it covers everything from Jewish history, pop holidays and of course food all with our trademark irreverence and love
0:16.8	Our publisher is offering a special 20% discount on newest Jewish and their entire Hanukk shop. So head to Artisan Books.com
0:24.0	and use the code unorthodox at check out.
0:26.5	That's Artisan Books.
0:28.1	Discount code, unorthodox, all caps.
0:33.0	caps. Welcome to Unorthodox, a weekly podcast from tablet magazine.
0:38.0	I'm Mark Oppenheimer, joined as ever by Deputy Editor Stephanie Butnik.
0:42.0	Hi. Hello, Stephanie.
0:43.7	And live via telephone from Erritz Yesrael, Lial Leibouitz.
0:48.1	Hello to you from the beautiful in the Bal Hotel in Jerusalem.
0:52.3	You sound different.
0:54.4	This is my accent when I'm over the sea.
0:56.8	I lose all my power.
0:57.8	I sound like this all the time.
0:59.2	Rebecca asked me this morning as we were, my daughter Rebecca,
1:01.4	who was in studio with us because at school
1:04.3	vacation asked us this morning do people who know many languages think in just
1:07.9	one of them and I thought I would ask Leel your your English is just so darn good
1:11.8	and yet you grew up speaking...
1:14.0	Gee shucks, thanks Mark.
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