Match Game: Ep. 165

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Religion & Spirituality, Judaism, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 17 January 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

This week on Unorthodox, we're setting it up. Our Jewish guest this week is longtime matchmaker Tova Weinberg, who founded the Jewish dating website Saw You at Sinai. In an interview recorded at our Hanukkah live show in Pittsburgh, she tells the hosts about ditching dentistry to become a matchmaker (she estimates she's made 350 matches over the past 40 years), and her opinion on what it is that men and women really want. She also helps out a listener with some first date tips. Our Gentile of the Week is producer Scott Ellis, whose long list of theater and television credits includes The Good Wife, Weeds, She Loves Me, and more. He sits down with Stephanie to talk about getting his start on TV with the sitcom Frasier, putting himself up for an Emmy nomination, (and actually getting the nomination!) for an episode of 30 Rock, and being entrusted by The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel creators Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino to direct a few episodes of the award-winning Amazon series. (Scott even got Stephanie and producer Josh Kross into Season 2, Ep. 3 as extras—check out the very last scene). We're heading to the West Coast! We'll be at Adat Shalom in Los Angeles Friday, Feb. 1 at 7 p.m. for a special Shabbat live show; Guests will include writer, director, actor, and producer Lauren Miller Rogen and Iranian-Jewish philanthropist Rachel Sumekh, Get your tickets here. Then we'll be at the Stroum JCC in the Seattle area Saturday, Feb. 2 for a special live show with Dan Savage of the Savage Lovecast, and . Get your tickets here. We love to hear from you: Send comments and questions for Unorthodox to [email protected] or leave a message at our listener line: 914-570-4869. This episode is sponsored by JChef, the new kosher meal kit. Go to Jchef.com/unorthodox and use coupon code Unorthodox30 to get 30 percent off your first order. Additional support comes from The Branch, a new podcast from Hadassah that explores how positive relationships between Israeli Jews and Arabs can bring new hope for a truly shared society. Check it out at Hadassah.org/thebranch.

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0:35.0	please be on guard against the indelicate language that may be used during this show.
0:41.0	This has been your obscenity warning. This is unorthodox the leading Jewish
0:47.3	podcast. I am your host Mark Oppenheimer joined this week by senior
0:51.2	writer at tablet magazine Leal Leibowitz and by tablet
0:56.1	deputy editor Stephanie Butnik. Hello. Our Jew in the week this week is a
1:00.4	special one live from the Hanukkah show that we did in Pittsburgh. It is
1:04.6	Supermatchmaker Tova Weinberg. She's the founder of the website, Saw You at
1:08.6	Sinai. She has made hundreds of matches of Shidachs in her multi-decade career.
1:14.4	She's a real treat.
1:15.6	Tova Weinberg is the Jew of the week.
1:17.5	Our Gentile of the week is award-winning stage
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