Jews Across America, 2019: Ep. 187

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Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 4 July 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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In honor of the 4th of July, we present our second-annual Jews Across America episode, celebrating the diversity of Jewish life throughout this great nation. (You can listen to last year's episode here) We have a bunch of star-studded guests! Blair Braverman, the second Jewish woman to complete the Iditarod, joined us at our Chicago live show with her dog, Flame, to tell us about how a Jewish girl from California becomes a dog sledding phenom. (Check out her memoir, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube, too) Stanford M. Adelstein, a former State Senator from South Dakota and the subject of the new book The Question Is "Why?": A Jewish Life in South Dakota, tells us how Jews got to South Dakota, and how Jewish life there has changed in his 87 years. Melissa Untereker, an lawyer with Frontera Immigration Law in El Paso, Texas, explains how Judaism informs her work, and how local religious groups are stepping up to help refugees. (If you'd like to help, she recommends starting here. Rabbi Neil Amswych of Temple Beth Shalom in Santa Fe tells us about how an English rabbi came to helm a New Mexico synagogue, and what makes his adopted community so special. Josh Furman, a historian at Rice University who runs the university's Houston Jewish History Archive, talks to us about preserving Jewish items in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, and his favorite item in the collection. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get new episodes, photos, and more. Email us at Unorthodox@tabletmag.com or leave a message at our listener line: 914-570-4869. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and join our Facebook group. This episode is brought to you by Harry’s. Get a free trial shave set when you sign up at Harrys.com/Unorthodox. This episode is also brought to you by The Franciska Show, a podcast about Jewish women in the arts. Neshama Carlebach will be a guest on the July 9th episode. Subscribe today.

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0:28.6	unorthodox all caps. Would you talk in a boot?
0:34.0	That was my Northern Minnesota by way of Canada.
0:38.0	This is unorthodox, the universe's leading Jewish podcast.
0:42.0	I am Mark Oppenheimer.
0:43.9	Joined as ever by my co-host, senior writer Leah Leibovitz.
0:47.6	Hello, hello, and deputy editor Stephanie Butnik.
0:50.8	Salome y'all. This is our Jews Across America episode.
0:55.0	Happy 4th of July.
0:56.0	We take this opportunity every year or our third year in a row to get out of Lower Manhattan and see the wild of America in that spirit.
1:06.5	We come to you live today from Scarsdale, New York, which is literally as far as we could get out of the city.
1:13.1	We're like, let's get out of New York!
1:15.1	And we drove to Scarce, like, yeah, that's, that would be.
1:17.7	We just had a tasty barbecue luncheon at the house of our producer Sara Fredman Aider.
1:23.8	We consumed some beef ethically and coshrutly prepared by former sponsors of ours and also
1:29.0	some faux beef for my needs and it's been delicious and we're just enjoying nature here in
1:33.6	Scarsdale like this is the countryside this we have eaten at least three
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