Free Agents Ep. 39

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2016

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This week on Unorthodox: Broad City skewers Birthright. Our Jewish guest is literary agent and author Betsy Lerner, whose latest book, The Bridge Ladies, tells the story of the women in her mother’s bridge group, which has been meeting weekly for 50 years. Our Gentile of the Week is CNN political reporter Nia-Malika Henderson, who covers the 2016 election with a special focus on identity politics, exploring the dynamics of demographics, race and religion. We love to hear from you! Email us at Unorthodox@tabletmag.com. Sign up for our weekly newsletter at http://bit.ly/UnorthodoxPodcast. Come see us live at the American Hebrew Academy in Greensboro, North Carolina, on May 16. 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?
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 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 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.
0:31.8	Greetings! caps.
0:33.0	Greetings, this is unorthodox, a weekly podcast from Tablet magazine.
0:38.0	I'm Mark Oppenheimer, joined as ever by the leavened bread free Stephanie Butnick.
0:43.0	I'm hungry.
0:44.0	And her partner in teammates
0:48.0	Estule, Leal Leibowitz.
0:50.0	Happy fourth of the omer to you.
0:52.0	Happy fourth day of the Omer, to you.
0:53.0	Happy the Omer!
0:55.0	Our guest this week are Bridge Maven and author Betsy Lerner,
0:59.0	author of the Bridge Ladies,
1:00.0	and our guest Gentile Neia Malika Henderson of CNN.
1:04.0	Our guest Gentile was almost still in Scarsgarde,
1:07.0	whom I saw this morning at Culture Coffing on 38th Street.
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