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I'm Dreaming of an Unorthodox Christmas Ep. 21

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2015

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week, Unorthodox celebrates Christmas—or as we call it, Christian Hanukkah—the only way we know how: binge-watching Netflix (the new ‘going to a movie’) and eating Chinese food. We’re joined by Orange is the New Black’s Yael Stone, who tells us about playing the memorable Lorna Morello, a compulsive shopper and lovable stalker, on the hit Netflix show. Her newest role is as Peretta Jones on the SyFy series Childhood’s End, which you can binge-watch after you finish Season 3 of Orange is the New Black. She tells us about moving to the U.S. from Australia, where she grew up, and directs us to watch her new show using that distinctive Morello accent. ​We’re also joined by Jennifer 8. Lee, whose book The Fortune Cookie Chronicles explores, among other things, the relationship between Jews and Chinese food. She tells us why chow mein is “the chosen food of the chosen people,” and how Chinese food on Christmas became a veritable Jewish American tradition. She also tells us about the Dumpling Emoji Project, her campaign to get a dumpling added to the canon of emoji available on your smartphone. While you’re Netflix-ing on Christmas Day, check out the excellent documentary she produced, The Search for General Tso. We wish you a merry, Unorthodox Christmas, no matter how you celebrate. Now pass the lo mein. We love to hear from you! Email us at Unorthodox@tabletmag.com. Sign up for our weekly newsletter at http://bit.ly/UnorthodoxPodcast.  You can watch SyFy's Childhood's End online at http://www.syfy.com/childhoodsend/episodes, and Orange is the New Black on Netflix at https://www.netflix.com/mx-en/title/70242311. For more on Jennifer 8. Lee, check out http://www.jennifer8lee.com/, and http://fortunecookiechronicles.com/. Show your support for the dumpling emoji campaign at https://www.change.org/p/unicode-consortium-we-need-a-dumpling-emoji.

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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. Merry Christmas to all the non-chosen people out there.

0:43.0

I'm Mark Oppenheimer joined as ever by deputy editor Stephanie Butnik.

0:47.0

Hi. Hello, Stephanie.

0:48.0

And senior writer Leah Leibowitz,

0:50.0

Ho-ho!

0:51.0

Ho!

0:52.0

Ho! You could do Santa Claus, yeah.

0:55.0

I'm Fat Jewish Santa.

0:57.0

Fat Jewish angry Santa.

0:59.0

With an ample lap. An ample lap and a shotgun.

1:05.0

Later in the show we'll be talking with Yayle Stone who is Jewish but plays

1:11.4

Morello on oranges the new Black and she's also Australian.

1:14.8

So if you're an Orange is the New Black fan and you love that Joy-Z Boston mash-up accent that she does,

1:21.3

wait till you hear what she actually sounds like.

1:23.7

And our guest Gentile is Jennifer 8 Lee,

1:26.2

former writer for the New York Times

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