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Return of the Shiksa Ep. 2

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Host Mark Oppenheimer and Tablet staffers Stephanie Butnick and Liel Leibovitz discuss this year’s European Maccabiah Games—a Jewish Olympics of sorts—which are being held this week in Berlin at the stadium Hitler built for the 1936 Olympics. They also sound off on Mike Huckabee’s ill-advised Holocaust analogy, and an investigation into academic rigor at New York City’s Orthodox yeshivas. Celebrity ghostwriter Hilary Liftin discusses her new novel, Movie Star By Lizzie Pepper, a tell-all written by a fictional Hollywood starlet swept away by an older Hollywood heartthrob involved in a strange cult. She doesn’t name names. Unorthodox’s gentile of the week is Simon Doonan--Barneys’ creative ambassador, writer, and man-about-town. He describes his lifelong affinity for the Jewish people, his Jewish wedding to celebrity ceramicist Jonathan Adler, and schools the hosts with his Yiddishisms. For more about Simon Doonan, check out his website http://www.simondoonan.com/. Hilary Liftin’s novel Movie Star By Lizzie Pepper is available here http://hilaryliftin.com/. Learn more about Unorthodox at www.tabletmag.com/tag/unorthodox, and sign up for our weekly newsletter at http://eepurl.com/bsZlGr. Let us know what you think of the podcast by emailing Unorthodox@tabletmag.com.

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0:00.0

What better way to be proudly Jewish right now than with our book, the Newish Jewish Encyclopedia?

0:07.0

It's the perfect coffee table book for your proud Jewish home,

0:10.0

and it covers everything from Jewish history, pop holidays and of course food all with our trademark irreverence and love

0:16.8

Our publisher is offering a special 20% discount on newest Jewish and their entire Hanukk shop. So head to Artisan Books.com

0:24.0

and use the code unorthodox at check out.

0:26.5

That's Artisan Books.

0:28.1

Discount code, unorthodox, all caps.

0:43.7

Hi, welcome to. caps. disturbing level of honesty. I'm Mark Oppenheimer and as usual I am joined by Talid colleagues deputy editor Stephanie Butnik. Hi. Hello. And senior

0:48.4

writer Lial Leibovis. Hello hello hello. Hello. Later in the show we'll be

0:52.1

talking with best-selling author, Jewish author, Hillary Lifton, ghostwriter

0:56.0

for Tori Spelling, and others who has a new novel out.

0:59.3

And in our final segment, The Gentile of the Week, we welcome man about town, window designer, slate contributor,

1:06.2

and Jew lover Simon Dunan. A little news of the Jews. It was quite a week. From

1:11.2

Tel Aviv to New York, such a painful week for the chosen people hard to know what we were chosen for exactly

1:16.0

In the West Bank a Jewish terrorist settler set fire to a Palestinian home incinerating an 18-month-old Arab boy, Ali Saad Daabja, a horrible crime and we mourn his death.

1:27.0

Then, some sicko stabbed six people at the gay pride parade in Jerusalem.

1:31.0

Six year old Shera Bankel died from her wounds.

1:33.7

We miss you, Shera.

1:35.2

And Thursday night was the little-known holiday of Tuba-Ove, also known as Jewish Valentine's

1:39.5

Day.

1:40.4

In celebration, tablet writer Manishtana, a Jew of African descent,

1:44.3

relaunched his dating site Mosaic Matches for Jews of color

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