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Sandler vs. Samberg: Ep 1

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2015

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Host Mark Oppenheimer and Tablet staffers Stephanie Butnick and Liel Leibovitz sound off about gay marriage in Israel, the suicide of a formerly Orthodox young woman, and Adam Sandler's latest movie. New York Times bestselling author A.J. Jacobs discusses his latest project: hosting the world's largest family reunion and compiling a massive family tree that includes President Obama, Judge Judy, and yes, Adam Sandler. Writer and 'This American Life' contributor Elna Baker describes leaving the Mormon church and asks why non-practicing Jews get to call themselves Jewish, which isn't the case for Mormons. For more information about A.J. Jacobs, visit his website www.ajjacobs.com. You can find out more about his Global Family Reunion at http://globalfamilyreunion.com/. Elna Baker's memoir, The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance, is available at http://www.elnabaker.com/book.html.

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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.

0:44.4

caps. a disturbing level of honesty. I'm Mark Oppenheimer and as usual I'm joined by my tablet colleagues deputy editor Stephanie Butnik. Hi. Hey Stephanie and

0:48.0

staff writer Leal Leibovitz. Senior writer for you, hello. Senior writer Leib Leavivit.

0:53.0

Later in the show we'll be talking with best selling author, A.J. Jacobs, who is set out to host the world's largest family reunion.

0:59.0

And in our final segment, we will welcome our Gentile of the week, Elna Baker, from this American life.

1:04.0

First, a quick roundup of the Jews. From Tel Aviv to New York to the headquarters of the

1:09.0

Trump campaign, a lot has happened to the chosen people in the past week.

1:13.0

Across the globe, Jews debated whether Barack Obama's deal with Iran has brought us one step closer

1:18.0

to annihilation at the hands of a latter day Hitler,

1:20.0

or has helped keep the peace with a country that as recently as 1979 kind of dug Americans.

1:25.0

John Stewart, nay Jonathan Stewart Leibowitz, came under fire

1:30.0

when his former writer Wyatt Sinac revealed that the two had once tangled over Stewart's sticky

1:34.9

impersonation of Hermann Kane.

1:37.6

E. L. Doctoro, the brilliant author of the book of Daniel and ragtime, died at age 84.

1:42.4

And Donald Trump's Jewish lawyer Michael Cohen

1:44.8

said there's no such thing as marital rape. Finally just to cap off the week

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