Leading Ladies Ep. 19

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2015

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: America’s most badass Supreme Court Justice and TV’s most visible rabbi. Our Jewish guest is MSNBC reporter Irin Carmon, whose new book, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is a smart, entertaining biography of the Supreme Court justice. She tells us about RBG’s recent turn as a feminist pop culture icon, her important role on the Supreme Court today, and the octogenarian’s impressive workout routine. Our non-Jewish guest is actress Kathryn Hahn, who tells us what it’s like to regularly play Jewish characters (see: Transparent, Afternoon Delight, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days). She explains how she prepared for her latest role as Rabbi Raquel Fein on Jill Soloway’s Amazon hit Transparent, which returns Friday for Season 2. She asks the panel about Judaism’s earliest female rabbis. Our next episode will be a live taping on Dec. 15 at 7 p.m. at the Washington DC JCC, in Washington, D.C. You can buy tickets at http://thejdc.convio.net/site/Calendar?id=151257&view=Detail. To buy Notorious RBG, go to http://notoriousrbg.tumblr.com/book. For more Transparent, check out amazon.com/transparent. We love to hear from you! Email us at Unorthodox@tabletmag.com. Sign up for our weekly newsletter at http://bit.ly/UnorthodoxPodcast.

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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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0:28.6	unorthodox all caps. Hey there I've been listening to the message.
0:34.0	It's an original science fiction podcast from Panoply and from GE Podcast Theater.
0:38.0	All of season one is available now, so you should go and listen
0:42.0	and find out why a 70 year old
0:44.7	alien recording seems to be killing the people who listen to it. Search for the
0:49.3	message on iTunes.
0:53.0	Happy Hanukkah!
0:55.0	Welcome to UnOrthadox, a weekly podcast from tablet magazine.
0:59.0	I'm Mark Oppenheimer, joined as ever by deputy editor Stephanie Butnick.
1:03.7	Hi.
1:04.7	And senior writer Leoebowitz.
1:06.5	Can I just read a note that has been left behind in the studio where we record this
1:11.3	podcast?
1:12.3	Leel do it. I don't know who record this podcast. Lee, I'll do it.
1:13.0	I don't know who record this, but this is what the handwritten note says.
1:16.0	Wait, wait, wait, this is not safe for workplace, right?
1:19.0	Or children.
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