Hanukkah Helper: Ep. 208

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Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

New York-area listeners: Enter to win a spot at our first-ever Unorthodox Shabbat dinner, January 3rd at the Freehand New York. This week on Unorthodox, we’re getting into the Hanukkah spirit. But first, a discussion of the terrifying anti-Semitic shooting at a Jersey City kosher market that killed four people. Then, Rabbi Ari Lamm explains the real story of Hanukkah, which is less about oil and miracles and more about Jews battling each other over assimilation. And since the holiday season is synonymous with movies, we talk to Clive Owen and Howard Shore, the star and composer of The Song of Names, which opens in theaters on Christmas. The film, based on the novel of the same name by Norman Lebrecht, features Owen as a Hasidic violin prodigy. We also chat with Rabbi Daniel Cohen of Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel in South Orange, NJ, about how he incorporates the latest technology into his work. Let us know what you think of the show: email us at Unorthodox@tabletmag.com or leave a message at 914-570-4869. Come see us on tour! December 19 – St. Louis: Book talk with Stephanie and Liel January 8, 2020 – Westport, Connecticut: Book talk with Mark and Liel February 6, 2020 – Scotch Plains, New Jersey: Book talk with Stephanie & Liel February 9, 2020 – Wyomissing, Pennsylvania: Book talk with Mark and Liel February 26, 2020 – Naples, Florida: Book talk with Stephanie and Mark March 12, 2020 – Boca Raton, Florida: Book talk with Stephanie and Liel Copies of The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia will be sold and signed at each event. Like the book? Leave us a review on Amazon or Goodreads. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get new episodes, photos, and more. Follow Unorthodox on Twitter and Instagram and join our Facebook group. Get your Unorthodox T-shirts, sweatshirts, and baby onesies here. Sponsors: Hebrew College’s vibrant and pluralistic community trains aspiring rabbis, cantors, and educational leaders. Learn more at hebrewcollege.edu/explore. Applications for Fall 2020 are due January 15, 2020. Adeena Sussman’s cookbook Sababa shares the vibrant flavors of Israeli home cooking, and makes a great Hanukkah gift for the foodie in your life. Get a copy of Sababa online or at your favorite bookstore

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0:14.9	all with our trademark, irreverence, and love.
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0:24.0	and use the code unorthodox at check out.
0:26.5	That's Artisan Books.
0:28.2	Discount code, unorthodox, all caps. by my co-hosts tablet senior writer Leal Leibovitz and a very merry to you
0:46.5	Mary whatever get out the festiv- the poll what is the airing of the grievances
0:51.3	around the festivist poll and tablet deputy editor Stephanie Butnik, good morning.
0:55.4	A Freelic in Hanukkah.
0:56.7	Yes, Hanukkah with joy and freedom and love and peace.
1:02.2	My kids are off from school today, so I'm in the basement at the New Haven studio at Argo Studio
1:07.0	North and the kids are upstairs.
1:09.0	Sit has put together a day off schedule for them which will involve family picture
1:12.2	at 4 p.m. and keeping them stuffed with sweets until then.
1:15.6	A Christmas miracle.
1:18.0	So while I see your kids in the next room, I raise you here in Argo Studios south in Manhattan do you know who's next
1:26.6	door in the little studio right now oh who's who's there tell me mr. Steve Martin
1:32.1	Stephen Martin himself I'm the jerk I'm not cool with that like I'm a no
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