Presenting ‘Hearing with Tali Farhadian Weinstein’

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🗓️ 4 March 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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This week on Unorthodox, we’re sharing an episode of “Hearing with Tali Farhadian Weinstein,” a podcast from Pushkin Industries. Tali is an Iranian-Jewish prosecutor running for District Attorney in Manhattan, and her show features interviews with policy experts, journalists, and community members. In this episode of Hearing, Tali talks to former Unorthodox guest Rabbi Angela Buchdahl of Manhattan's Central Synagogue about the points of intersection around faith, personal identity, and the fight for racial justice. To hear more episodes of Tali's show, check out www.pushkin.fm/show/hearing-with-tali-farhadian-weinstein/. Join us for these upcoming ‘Unorthodox’ virtual events! Wednesday, March 10: Mark, Stephanie, and Liel will be returning to the Washington Hebrew Congregation virtually to discuss The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia at 8 p.m. EST. Register here. Thursday, March 11: Stephanie and Mark will be discussing The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia as part of the Mandel JCC of the Palm Beaches' Book Festival at 7:30 p.m. EST. Register here. Thursday, March 25: Stephanie Butnick will be interviewing Menachem Kaiser about his new book, Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, at 7 p.m. EST. Register here. As always, send us comments and questions at unorthodox@tabletmag.com, or leave us a voicemail at (914) 570-4869. You can also record a voice memo on your smartphone and email it to us. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get new episodes, photos, and more. Get a behind-the-scenes look at our recording sessions on our YouTube channel! Join our Facebook group, and follow Unorthodox on Twitter and Instagram. Get your Unorthodox T-shirts, mugs, and baby onesies at bit.ly/unorthoshirt. Want to book us for a live show? Email producer Josh Kross at jkross@tabletmag.com. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts. Sponsors: Kol Foods has everything you need to create a kosher, ethical, sustainably-sourced Passover Seder spread, from delicious briskets to 100% grass-fed lamb shank bones. Use promo code UNORTHODOXPESACH for 10% of your entire Passover order at KOLFoods.com.

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0:00.0	Hey, Jay Crew, it's Mark here.
0:04.0	Hope you guys are all doing well.
0:06.0	There are two good reasons to take a week off.
0:08.5	One good reason is if we're feeling burnt out or if there's a holiday, you know, personal
0:13.5	time for us to do other things and to relax.
0:17.5	That's not the reason we're taking a week off this time.
0:20.6	We are not so hungover from forum that we need this week off.
0:24.0	No, in this case, we're taking a week off because we want to drop an episode of another
0:27.7	show in our feed.
0:28.7	And it's an episode of a show that we think you will really, really, really enjoy.
0:33.1	The show is called Hearing.
0:34.4	It's produced by Pushkin Studios, which is the same studios that produces the podcasts
0:37.6	of Malcolm Gladwell and Michael Lewis and others.
0:40.6	And the show Hearing is hosted by Tali Farhadian Weinstein, who is a candidate to become
0:44.3	district attorney of Manhattan.
0:46.2	Now, she is somebody I've known for a long time.
0:48.6	She is a Persian-American Jew and a Rhodes scholar and a very impressive human being.
0:54.7	And in this run for a district attorney of Manhattan, she is kind of doing a podcast
0:59.3	to gather ideas.
1:00.5	This podcast Hearing is one in which she's hosting thoughtful conversations with policy
1:04.6	experts to help give her some ideas for the kind of DA that she would want to be.
1:08.9	And in this episode that we're going to play for you, she has a sit-down with her rabbi.
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