Mother's Boy - with Howard Jacobson

Unholy: Two Jews on the News

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News, Yonit Levi, Israel, Israel Podcast, Jonathan Freedland, Middle East, Jewish, Religion & Spirituality, Jews, Society & Culture

4.7 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Gold coaches, historic royal attire and controversial crown jewels - preparations for the coronation of King Charles have Londoners exhilarated, including our British co-host, a notable monarchy fan (just kidding, of course). As the ceremony approaches, a discussion on the King's unique relationship with Jews. And, speaking of British Jews, Yonit and Jonathan are lucky to be joined by arguably the most valued novelist of the lot - Howard Jacobson. The acclaimed author talks about his new bestseller, plus how he defends Israel's image and why he can't escape the use of Judaism in his works. Lastly, what way of celebrating May the Fourth is more acceptable than bestowing an award upon a robot?-- Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unholypodcast/and X: https://x.com/2jewsonthenewsJoin our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1150578065793142 Subscribe to our blog: https://unholypodcast.substack.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by Cyber Attacks Can Be Prevented.
0:05.6	Checkpoint, you deserve the best security.
0:09.2	A conversation with the greatest living British Jewish novelist,
0:14.1	none other than Howard Jacobson.
0:16.6	We'll be talking to him.
0:17.5	Also, an update on everything going on in Israel and looking ahead to the
0:22.6	crowning of a new, but also quite old. King, it's unholy. I'm Jonathan Friedland of The Guardian
0:29.1	in London. And I'm Unite Levy of Channel 12 in Tel Avic. Unholy, two Jews on the news from Keshe Podcasts.
0:46.1	I hear you have a new king in the making, Mr. Friedland.
0:49.6	I love the way I have, as if he is going to take the oath to me personally. Although I say that,
0:55.7	you know, this new wrinkle on the coronation of King Charles III, which is hours away, we haven't
1:02.3	had one of these for 70 years, the new tweak on the ceremony is they've asked everyone to make
1:09.0	an oath to him.
1:12.0	Normally coronation, right?
1:18.1	The king swears to serve, you know, the church and the crown.
1:23.2	But in this case, they've asked the public his subjects to, you know, reverse the compliment and return the compliment, rather, and to make an oath to him.
1:27.6	And that has caused a little bit of a backlash.
1:29.9	You know my small little corner of fellow campaigners for an elected head of state.
1:34.4	It's a very niche position.
1:36.5	But we got a bit more support this week because of this slightly chutzpah pre request from the king
1:43.3	that people should say an oath to him. I don't know if people will do that,
1:46.3	but obviously, as you can imagine, the world leaders are flying in here. I was just walking right
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