Spooky Schmoozing: Ep.291

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This week on Unorthodox, former guest Gavriel Savit joins us for a spooktacular Halloween episode. We talk about the Jewishness of Dune, William Shatner’s mission to the moon, why some religious Jews don’t celebrate Halloween, and more. Our Jewish guest is actor, author, and substance abuse counselor Stacey Nelkin, who starred in the 1982 film Halloween III: Season of the Witch. She joins us to reminisce about the critically panned cult classic. Our Gentile of the week is Carrie Harris, a fiction writer whose work features monsters, mayhem, and murder. She tells us why horror writing flourishes in uncertain times, and reads a passage from her new young adult book, Elder God Dance Squad, which she describes as ‘Stranger Things meets Bring It On.’ Dara Horn, author of the new book People Love Dead Jews, and host of the podcast “Adventures with Dead Jews,” gets us in the holiday spirit with a reading of “The Dead Town” by Yiddish writer I.L. Peretz. (Translated by Helen Frank and Hillel Halkin, abridged and adapted by Dara Horn.) Listen to Liel on a special crossover episode of “People of the Pod,” discussing “How the Jews Went Right in Britain.” It’s the first installment of “21st Century Europe and the Jews,” a four-part collaboration between Tablet and American Jewish Committee. Listen to the episode here, and learn more about the series here. It’s that time of the year! Please support Unorthodox and the other Tablet shows you know and love by visiting bit.ly/givetounorthodox. Send comments and questions to unorthodox@tabletmag.com, or leave us a voicemail at (914) 570-4869. You can also record a voice memo on your smartphone and email it to us. 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! Get your Unorthodox T-shirts, mugs, and baby onesies at bit.ly/unorthoshirt. Want to book us for a live show? Email producer Josh Kross at jkross@tabletmag.com. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts. Sponsors: Rothy’s shoes are stylish and sustainable, and now they’re available for men too! Get $20 off your first purchase at rothys.com/UNORTHODOX

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0:00.0	Hey, friends, it's Mark here and I just want to tell you things are happening at unorthodox.
0:05.2	This is an autumn to remember.
0:06.6	This is the beginning of Jewish year 5782 to remember.
0:10.3	This week you're about to hear a special Halloween episode.
0:13.1	In coming weeks, you're going to hear a special episode where we're back in Squirrel Hill
0:16.6	for the third anniversary of that terrible shooting there.
0:19.6	And also in the coming couple or three weeks, there's going to be the return of someone
0:23.8	special.
0:24.8	I'm not going to say who you might remember her from times past.
0:28.2	She might have been out on a kind of family leave and she might be coming back excited
0:32.7	and better than ever answering your demands that she returned to the show because frankly,
0:37.3	it's not as good without her so much more coming up between the high holidays and Chanaka.
0:42.8	This year on unorthodox things are happening.
0:45.0	Things are great.
0:46.0	You have stuck with us through a long, slow, hot dog days of summer.
0:51.2	And well, here we are in the cool, crisp fall in which the new breezes of 5782 are
0:56.6	wafting through our big hair, our Harry's trimmed beards, our Rothey shoes, and frankly,
1:03.4	through Yiddish kite at large.
1:05.0	It's unorthodox.
1:06.0	The world's leading Jewish podcast.
1:07.3	We're grateful to you, our listeners, and we're excited that you're going to stick with
1:10.0	us for the episode starting right now.
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