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Land's End: Ep. 82

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week on Unorthodox, Mark ditches us for the Holy Land. It was snowing in New York, but we trudged to the studio and were graciously joined by Israeli filmmaker Shimon Dotan, whose latest film is The Settlers, a documentary about the controversial settler movement in Israel (you can read Tablet film critic J. Hoberman's review here). He tells us why he decided to take on such a contentious topic, how he created a nuanced cinematic portrait of a group of people with whom he fundamentally disagrees, and how it felt to encounter protests from BDS activists who hadn’t seen the film. Sign up for our weekly newsletter to get new episodes, behind-the-scenes photos, and more! Email us at Unorthodox@tabletmag.com—we'll share our favorite notes on air. Music Credits: "Mikveh Bath" by Golem "That's What I Call Love" by Crowded House "Kolomeika" by Tres Tristes Tangos "The Pinch Paid Off, Pt. 1" by Albert King "Full Stop" by Ketsa

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, Mark's on vacation this week, and when Dad's away, who knows what we'll say?

0:05.0

Literally, we have no idea what we might say, but it's probably going to be curse words, so consider yourself warned.

0:10.0

Oh, we got that Israeli ringed home.

0:14.0

This is Mark Oppenheimer.

0:17.0

Please leave me a message.

0:18.0

Thank you.

0:20.0

Hello Mark, this is a Schlamo from the Mossad we saw yesterday at Masada we think you're a very

0:26.0

virile Jewish man we have special mission just for you please call us at your earliest

0:31.4

convenience we will know us by the dolphin by the beach call us at your earliest convenience.

0:32.6

You will know us by the dolphin, by the beach.

0:35.1

Go talk to the dolphin.

0:36.2

You will take you stay to Schlumu.

0:39.6

Hello Jews hung over from Purim. I'm Stephanie Butnik taking over the big boy chair

0:47.4

while Mark Oppenheimer is in Israel with his family. I'm joined by my fellow

0:50.8

snowflakes, Leah Leibowitz, howowitz, and our producer Alyssa Goldstein.

0:55.4

Good morning!

0:57.0

They both brave sleet and hail and all sorts of biblical plagues to be here this morning

1:00.9

in the quote snowstorm. special thanks to Paul Rest of

1:04.2

Argo Studios for keeping the doors open during the snowstorm he is obviously

1:07.7

a Gentile we're celebrating the Blizzard Apocalypse with the very very talented

1:12.1

Shimono Tan. He joins us in studio. He made

1:15.2

the trek as well. We're excited to be talking to him. So guys, we finally killed off Mark.

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