School Spirit Ep. 11

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Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2015

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week, we present first-ever Unorthodox live show, recorded at the Slifka Center at Yale University. Our Jewish guest is Shelly Kagan, Clark Professor of Philosophy at Yale. He talks about his reputation as Tough Grader on Campus, and explains what it means that he’s a non-welfarist consequentialist. Our guest gentile of the week—who told us he preferred the term “token goy” or “goykin”—is humorist and WNPR radio host Colin McEnroe. He asked the panel why yarmulkes always seem to fall off his head at bar mitzvah services, and, more seriously, why there seem to be certain tripwires within discussions about Israel that, when crossed, trigger accusations of anti-Jewish sentiment. You can watch Shelly Kagan's Death course at: http://oyc.yale.edu/philosophy/phil-176. Listen to the Colin McEnroe Show here: http://wnpr.org/programs/colin-mcenroe-show.

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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 Hanukah shop. So head to artisan books
0:23.3	and use the code unorthodox at check out. That's artisan books.com discount code
0:28.6	unorthodox all caps.
0:31.6	All right, it's October 13th, and we're here with a terrific audience of preppy Tweedy Jews at Yale University.
0:40.0	This is Unorthodox. All right.
0:48.0	I'm a really good recording of an audience.
0:51.0	I'm Mark Oppenheimer joined as ever by deputy editor Stephanie Butnick.
0:55.0	Hi.
0:56.0	And senior writer Leo Leibowitz.
0:58.0	Shalone.
0:59.0	Shalom, you're bringing out the heavy Hebrew.
1:02.0	I'm juring it up from the beginning. You were doing it up. You're bringing out the heavy Hebrew.
1:02.6	I'm juying it up from the beginning.
1:04.4	You're doing it up from the beginning.
1:05.5	We are in the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life
1:07.8	at Yale just to show you how Jewish
1:10.9	we've landed in New Haven.
1:13.0	Later in the show will be joined by our guest Jew, Yale Philosophy Professor Shelley Kagan,
1:17.0	and as ever by our Gentile of the week,
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