Holy Ground Ep. 7

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Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2015

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Host Mark Oppenheimer and Tablet staffers Stephanie Butnick and Liel Leibovitz sound off about public schools closing for Jewish holidays, and discuss a New York Times opinion piece about how some of the most violent West Bank extremists are from the United States. Rabbi Avi Shafran explains why he dislikes like the term ultra-Orthodox, why secular Jews shouldn't feel hostility towards more observant Jews (and vice versa), and why he doesn't accept reform conversions. Guest non-Jew Alex Sheshunoff describes his new book, A Beginner's Guide to Paradise, which chronicles his year living on the South Pacific island of Pig reading the 100 books he's always wanted to read. He asks the panel about the fishing wire strung from electrical poles in areas with large Jewish populations. (Known as an eruv, the string denotes an area in which items may be carried by observant Jews for Shabbat.) To learn more about Avi Shafran, check out his website, http://rabbiavishafran.com/. You can read the first chapter of Sheshunoff's book at http://www.abeginnersguidetoparadise.com/#a-beginners-guide-to-paradise For more Unorthodox, visit tabletmag.com/unorthodox. Email us at unorthodox@tabletmag.com.

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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. magazine in which we talk about the news of the Jews.
0:43.0	I'm Mark Oppenheimer kicking it here in the Trump studios with senior writer Leal Leibovitz.
0:47.0	Shalom, yo.
0:48.0	Shalom, and deputy editor Stephanie Butnik.
0:50.0	Hi.
0:51.0	Hi.
0:52.0	Later in the show, we'll be talking with columnist and Jewish
0:54.8	man of letters Avi Shafran whose job is to explain the so-called ultra
0:58.8	Orthodox to the rest of us and our non-Jewish guest of the week, our Gentile of the week, is writer Alex Shechenoff, who moved
1:05.7	to a small tropical island to read all the books he blew off in college, and then he wrote a book about. All right, but first, in the waning days of year 5775, some last show far blast of news.
1:19.0	At Dartmouth College, over 500 students have signed a petition demanding kosher food in the dining halls.
1:25.0	Anti-Semitic attacks on two synagogues in San Antonio, Texas.
1:29.0	Hillary Clinton's secret emails contain something about Gifiltofish,
1:32.0	though I can't really remember.
1:33.4	Does anyone remind me what?
1:34.8	It was an email titled Gifilto Fish and the subject, I mean the email body said,
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