Father Figures: Ep. 44

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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This week, Unorthodox jumpstarts the Father’s Day festivities with a special episode—because is there any figure more overlooked and misunderstood than the Jewish father? Liel talks to Tablet’s Gabe Sanders about archetypal father figures, starting with the biblical Abraham, and how their own identities changed when they became fathers. Stephanie sits down with Unorthodox regular Marjorie Ingall to break down the problematic aspects of Father’s Day, as well as the tough rap Jewish dads get—and how that’s wrapped up in the Jewish mother stereotype. Mark sits down with his dad, Tim Oppenheimer, who opens up about everything from his father’s many marriages and divorces to his own depression after his youngest child left for college. 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. 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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0:28.9	unorthodox, all caps.
0:43.8	caps. Hey everyone this is Mark Oppenheimer the host of Unorthodox. We're bringing you a special show this week instead of our normal banter about news of the Jews and
0:48.0	Jewish guests and a Gentile guest. We're doing a special Father's Day episode.
0:51.4	We're doing it a little bit early to give you time
0:53.5	to circulate it to all the dads out there and all the friends who are dads or our sons
0:58.1	or anyone who's ever had a dad, which is most of us. And we wish you a very
1:02.4	happy father's day. I'm going to be talking to my dad, Tim Oppenheimer about his father.
1:07.2	Stephanie Butnik is going to be talking to our colleague Marjorie Engel about
1:11.3	fatherhood.
1:12.5	And Lea Leibowitz is going to be doing a short interview
1:15.4	with our tablet colleague Gabriel Sanders,
1:17.4	where they're also going to talk about Jewish dads.
1:20.3	Join us and let us know what you think. So Jewish mothers, I think get all the love.
1:24.0	There are
1:29.0	So Jewish mothers, I think, get all the love. There are all these Jewish mothers stereotypes.
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