Poison Ivy: Ep 411

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

This week on the show, we’re reporting from Columbia University, where in recent days anti-Israel protesters have set up an encampment and occupied an administrative building. You can read Tablet’s long-running coverage of the escalating situation on American college campuses here, and Liel’s 2019 article “Get Out” here. Liel and Tablet editor-in-chief Alana Newhouse speak with New York City Mayor Eric Adams about the protests, the NYPD response, and more. Stephanie heads to Columbia to see what’s happening on campus and talk to students. Plus, we’re sharing a recent Tablet conversation, moderated by Liel, between professors Shai Davidai of Columbia and Ron Hassner of Berkeley about their efforts to combat antisemitism on their campuses. Learn more about becoming a Tablet Member at tabletm.ag/uomember. Write to us at unorthodox@tabletmag.com, or leave a voicemail on our listener line: (914) 570-4869. Unorthodox is produced by Tablet Studios. Check out all of our podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

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0:00.0	This is on Orthodox, the universe's leading Jewish podcast.
0:08.0	I'm Stephanie Boutnick, one of your three hosts, and right now I am near Columbia University. It's Wednesday, May 1st and things are definitely a lot
0:16.4	quieter than they've been in the past few days and weeks. Last night the NYPD cleared
0:22.0	Hamilton Hall.
0:23.0	They cleared a lot of the tent encampments
0:25.1	on the school's main campus.
0:27.1	We've been at campus a few times these past few days,
0:30.0	just trying to see what's going on.
0:31.6	Obviously, we cannot get onto campus itself, but there is a fair amount
0:35.9	to spillover and a general vibe of just heightened tensions here in Morningside Heights in New York City.
0:42.0	You know, something we try to do on unorthodox is make sense of what is going on.
0:47.0	Make sense of it for ourselves, make sense of it for you,
0:50.0	and together sort of figure out where to go.
0:53.4	So for Morningside Heights to Tel Aviv,
0:55.6	where Lial has been spending Passover with his family,
0:58.4	he has been thinking and writing about this
1:00.6	for many, many, many years of where we are and how we got here.
1:05.0	Shalom J crew, it's me Leo. You know, we had a great show lined up for you today.
1:16.5	We were going to catch up on Pessach and then do a fun bit about Jewish fashion
1:21.8	and share a really great interview with an
1:24.4	Orthodox female Israeli filmmaker. We were excited about the show it was going to be
1:29.8	Pekin Orthodox. And then, one day amid the holiday rush, we checked the news and we saw
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