Rocking and Rolling: Ep. 308

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This week on Unorthodox, we’re getting jiggy with it. Our Jewish guest is Lenny Solomon, frontman of the Jewish rock band Shlock Rock. He talks with us about what it takes to create a great parody song, the role of humor in music, and accounting. You can donate to his fundraiser for his musical, Daniel in Babylon, here. Our Gentile of the Week is professor and writer Devoney Looser, who teaches us about Jane Austen and roller derby, and the surprising ways in which these two subjects intersect. Check out Tablet’s month-long interfaith project, The Tent, at welcometothetent.com. We love to hear from you! Send us your emails and voice memos at unorthodox@tabletmag.com, or leave a voicemail at our listener line: (914) 570-4869. Remember to tell us who you are and where you’re calling from. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get new episodes, photos, and more. Join our Facebook group, and follow Unorthodox on Twitter and Instagram. Get a behind-the-scenes look at our recording sessions on our YouTube channel. We’ve got events coming up! April 7 — We’ll be doing a live show at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, hosted by the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater, with schmoozing and book signing afterwards. 7:30 p.m. Eastern, get your tickets here. Get all our events info at tabletmag.com/unorthodoxlive. Check out The Tab, Tablet magazine's new printable weekly digest. Laid out in an attractive PDF for reading on a tablet or desktop, or to be printed, The Tab takes you into Shabbat and through the weekend, for free. Get your copy at tabletm.ag/tab. Want to book us for a live show or event in your area, or partner with us in some other way? Email tabletstudios@tabletmag.com. Unorthodox is produced by Tablet Studios. Check out all of our podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

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0:00.0	Hey, Jacob, we are finalists for two podcast awards, but we need your vote.
0:10.6	It's the signal awards, which are listeners' choice, which means we need you to choose
0:14.3	our across the USA episode from Louisville, Kentucky.
0:17.3	You can vote for that at tabletm.ag slash vote on Orthodox, and for our sports podcast,
0:23.2	the franchise.
0:24.2	You can vote for that at tabletm.ag slash vote on the franchise.
0:28.6	We can close this October 5th, so don't wait, please get us to the gold.
0:33.0	You can find both of those links in the show notes, and thank you so much.
0:45.0	This is on Orthodox, the universe's leading Jewish podcast.
0:48.0	I'm your host, Mark Oppenheimer, joined as ever by the other hosts, tablet, deputy editor,
0:52.8	Stephanie Buttnick.
0:53.8	Hi, Mark.
0:54.8	Hello, and tablet editor at large, Leo Liebowitz.
0:59.1	Welcome to Adar, too, is there revenge of Adar?
1:02.8	Are we in Adar, Shaneena?
1:03.8	We've moved to Maro's Rojkhorish.
1:05.8	We've segwayed in.
1:06.8	You know what they say about the sequel?
1:08.8	The body count's going to be much higher in this one.
1:11.1	Today on the podcast, we talk to Jewish rock star and schlock rock otur, lead singer of
1:17.2	schlock rock, Lenny Solomon.
1:19.3	Gentile the week is Jane Austen scholar and roller derby queen, Devinny Loeser.
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