Law and Order Ep. 9

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Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 24 September 2015

⏱️ 38 minutes

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This week on Unorthodox, host Mark Oppenheimer and Tablet staffers Stephanie Butnick and Liel Leibovitz discuss Ann Coulter's ill-advised tweet during the Republican presidential debate about "f---ing Jews"; the Pope's visit to the U.S.; and a campaign to end the little-known Jewish practice of Kapporos, in which chickens are ritually slaughtered before Yom Kippur. Our Jewish guest is defense lawyer and former Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, whose latest book is "Abraham: The World's First (But Certainly Not Last) Jewish Lawyer." He talks about his former research assistant Natalie Portman, and explains why some critics of Israel are bigots while others are not. Our non-Jewish guest is Muslim comedian Negin Farsad, who is currently suing the MTA for pulling ads publicizing her documentary, "The Muslims Are Coming," just before they were scheduled to run. One such ad reads: "The Ugly Truth About Muslims: Muslims Have Great Frittata Recipes." Farsad asks the panel why some Jewish men are so ready to court and date non-Jews, only to dump them as things start to get serious because they're not Jewish. You can get Alan Dershowitz's book on Abraham here: http://www.amazon.com/Abraham-Worlds-Certainly-Jewish-Lawyer/dp/0805242937/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1427481946&sr=1-4&keywords=abraham+the+worlds+first. For more of Negin Farsad's work, check out her website, http://www.neginfarsad.com/. Watch the trailer for her film at http://themuslimsarecoming.com/. 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?
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0:26.5	That's Artisan Books.
0:28.1	Discount code, unorthodox, all caps.
0:35.0	If you're listening to this, it means Yum Kipur is over and we can eat again.
0:38.0	Welcome to Unorthodox, a weekly podcast from tablet magazine.
0:42.0	I'm Mark Oppenheimerheimer joined as ever by senior writer
0:44.8	Leoebitz. Hello hello hello and deputy editor Stephanie Butnick. Hi.
0:49.3	Hi. And later in the show we'll be talking with retired Harvard law professor and professional
0:54.7	purveyor of Putsva, Alan Dershruitz.
0:57.2	He's the author of a relatively new book about Abraham, whom he calls the first lawyer.
1:01.4	And then we'll be joined by Muslim comedian N
1:03.3	Naguin Farsat. But Stephanie and Leo let's talk about the news of the Jews
1:08.1	in the past week. The big Jewish news this week as I see, is that Shixadiva and Coulter sent out a
1:15.0	tweet during the Republican presidential debate when all the candidates were sucking up to
1:19.0	Israel and the tweet read, how many effing Jews do these people think there are in the United States?
1:25.0	It ignited a firestorm of Jews and non-Jews mad at Ann Coulter.
1:32.0	Stephanie, were you mad at Ann Coulter. Stephanie, were you mad at Ann Coulter?
1:34.2	No.
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