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Gelt Trip: Ep. 116

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2017

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

We'll be recording live at the Manhattan JCC on Wednesday, January 24 at 7:30 p.m. with special guests comedian Judy Gold and Father James Martin! Buy tickets here. Our Jewish guest this week is writer Jordana Horn Gordon, who returns to discuss her Hanukkah gifting strategy as the mother of six children. Our gentile of the week is journalist and religion scholar Reza Aslan, who tells us about his latest book, God: A Human History. Want more Unorthodox in your life? Join our Facebook group to chat with the hosts and see what happens behind-the-scenes! And sign up for our weekly newsletter here. We love hearing from our listeners. Please send your feedback to unorthodox@tabletmag.com—we may read your comments on the air. This episode of Unorthodox is brought to you by Harry's. As a special holiday offer for fans, we’ve partnered with Harry’s to give you $5 off your order when you go to Harrys.com/UNORTHODOX. This episode of Unorthodox is also brought to you by PJ Library, the program that sends FREE Jewish books to more than 200,000 children around the world. Sign up at pjlibrary.org/unorthodox and they’ll send you a new book each month.

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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 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. Shalom to all of our Snowbird friends.

0:34.0

Shalome to Gideon and Aisa and Jolie down in Austin, Texas.

0:38.0

Shalom to Howard and Elise in West Palm Beach.

0:42.0

Shalom to everyone of the Leibovitzim in Tel Aviv. But we are

0:46.0

stuck here in the deep north where it has recently snowed, so there may be

0:49.8

swearing this week. So that is your obscenity warning.

0:53.0

Don't you bite your children? Don't you nibble on your children?

0:55.0

So I did, but then they started, no, there was like a biting outbreak in school.

1:01.0

My two-year-old, she bit someone in school and they told her,

1:05.0

yeah, we do not bite our friends and she goes,

1:09.0

Luke isn't my friend.

1:11.0

Oh, who's.

1:12.0

Oh!

1:13.0

Hello J crew, this is unorthodox, the world's leading Jewish podcast.

1:17.6

I am your host Mark Oppenheimer wearing, I mean I took it off, but I was wearing it a red vnex sweater bought on credit card points from L.L. Bean visa.

1:27.0

Dadhood, maximum Dadhood achieved.

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