Sporting Goods Ep. 35

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Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 31 March 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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This week on Unorthodox: Scottish Jews get their own official tartan. Our Jewish guest is L. Jon Wertheim, executive editor of Sports Illustrated and the co-author of the book, This is Your Brain on Sports: The Science of Underdogs, the Value of Rivalry, and What we Can Learn from the T-Shirt Cannon. He tells us how he got into sports journalism, and what he thinks the least Jewish sports are. Our Gentile of the Week is Imani Perry, professor in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton. She tells us why she thinks Bernie Sanders should have more support from African American voters, and what she really thinks of Drake. We love to hear from you! Email us at Unorthodox@tabletmag.com. Sign up for our weekly newsletter at http://bit.ly/UnorthodoxPodcast.

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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.
0:33.0	Welcome to Unorthodox, a weekly podcast from Tablet magazine.
0:37.0	I'm Mark Oppenheimer, joined as ever by deputy editor Stephanie Butner.
0:41.0	Hello.
0:42.0	And senior writer Leah Leibowitz? I'd get me y hi. Hello. And senior writer, Leah Leibowitz?
0:42.8	I'm getting yontif to you.
0:44.0	Yeah, it's not a yontif. It is. Every day. Every day is a young day. Every day is a
0:48.8	recording day. Today we'll be talking with Sports Illustrated editor and Jew, Don Wirthheim, author of a new book about the psychology of sports, and with Princeton African American Studies Professor Imani Perry, who is the daughter of a Jewish dad, proving once again that we can't spot a guest
1:03.2	Gentile if we try. A little news of the Jews to start off. The Regents at the
1:08.2	University of California voted to approve a statement condemning anti-Semitism
1:12.1	but maintaining sort of that anti-Zionism is sort of allowed.
1:15.0	They kind of punted on that one, both sides seem to think.
1:18.0	Tablets' very own Yayor Rosenberg has made some list of the 25 biggest influencers in Jewish Twitter.
1:24.1	Sexiest people in Twitter.
1:25.9	Sexiest people in Twitter.
1:29.3	And perhaps most important, though what is there to be said about it
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