Like a Roman Stone: Ep. 113

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Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2017

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Our Jewish guest this week is Lani Santo, the executive director of Footsteps, a New York-based organization dedicated to helping formerly-Orthodox Jews establish new lives outside the insular communities in which they were raised. We discuss the new Netflix documentary ‘One of Us,’ which follows the lives of three Footsteps members. Our gentile of the week is Richard F. Thomas, Harvard Classics professor and author of the new book Why Bob Dylan Matters, which explores the literary themes linking the beloved American songwriter with the ancient poets of Greece and Rome. (So maybe that surprise Nobel win last year shouldn't have been a surprise at all.) Want more Unorthodox in your life? Join our Facebook group, sign up for our newsletter, and follow us on Twitter (@tabletmag , @markopp1, @liel, and @stuffism)! Kvetch and kvell to us directly at unorthodox@tabletmag.com—we might read your comments on the air. This episode of Unorthodox is brought to you by PJ Library, the program that sends FREE Jewish books to more than 200,000 children around the world. Sign up at pjlibrary.org/unorthodox and they’ll send you a new book each month.

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0:31.6	Hey Jay Cruz Stephanie is still recuperating.
0:35.0	Wayne Hoffman is here in her place.
0:36.0	He is famously profane.
0:38.0	That's true.
0:39.0	Will you be swearing, Wayne?
0:40.0	Yeah, right.
0:41.0	So send the kids out of the room.
0:42.0	This has been your obscenity warning. So Ellie asked me
0:45.5	Sophie's choice the other day. We're having breakfast and Ellie says, Dad, Dad, if you had to kill one of us, which
0:49.9	one would it be? I was like, I would not kill any of you. She's like no no but dad
0:52.6	debt. Let's say someone came along and said I'm going to kill one year or all of
0:56.8	them like she had the whole plot line and I was like I wouldn't answer that she's
0:59.9	like you let all of us die. I was, stop child.
1:03.5	So what do you missed out on when you got your vasectomy, Paul?
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