Relatively Speaking: Ep. 109

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

This week, we're live from JCC Manhattan! Our Jewish guest is writer A.J. Jacobs—our first-ever guest back in 2015—whose latest book is It's All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World's Family Tree. He tells us about his unlikely entry into the world of genealogy, the famous—and infamous—relatives he discovered, and, in a 'Maury'-style twist, reveals which hosts are related to him. Our gentile of the week is actor Kobi Libii, who played Cantor Duvid on Season 3 of 'Transparent' and currently appears on Comedy Central's 'The Opposition With Jordan Klepper'. He tells us about meeting with rabbis and other Jewish leaders to prepare for the 'Transparent' role, which required him to speak Hebrew, pivoting to political satire, and what he does to unwind from the constant news cycle he now covers. Join our new Facebook group! And sign up for our weekly newsletter to get new episodes, behind-the-scenes photos, and more! Email us at Unorthodox@tabletmag.com—we may read your note on air. Follow us on Twitter: @tabletmag , @markopp1, @liel, and @stuffism. Unorthodox is sponsored by Hello Fresh, the leading meal-delivery kit service. Visit hellofresh.com and use promo code UNORTHODOX for $30 off your first week. Unorthodox is also sponsored by ModernTribe.com, a new kind of Jewish gift shop. Use the code UNORTHODOX to save 10% on your order through 2017.

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0:00.0	What better way to be proudly Jewish right now than with our book, the Newish Jewish Encyclopedia?
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0:28.6	unorthodox all caps. All caps. All right. obscenity warning.
0:34.0	Lial is already on his fourth mescal as we begin this JCC Manhattan live show,
0:38.0	so who knows what will happen?
0:40.0	It's best if you send your kids out of the room.
0:42.0	By the way, that's a great metaphor for Israel in general.
0:44.0	Sofas on which to crash shifts.
0:45.0	It's a sofas in which American will crash if there is trouble in the America.
0:48.0	It's the original Airbnb.
0:50.0	Just come.
0:51.0	Hello,. crew, live on tape from the JCC Manhattan.
0:57.0	This is unorthodox, the world's leading Jewish podcast.
0:59.7	I am your host Mark Oppenheim are joined as ever by Tablay senior writer Leel
1:08.0	Leibowitz. Hello, and deputy editor Stephanie Butner.
1:12.6	Hi.
1:13.2	Our Jew of the week is the world's smartest man,
1:16.8	and now the man with the biggest family tree.
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