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Stage Hand: Ep. 322

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This week on Unorthodox, bubbe or buh-bye? Our Jew of the Week is Zachary Noah Piser, the new star of Broadway’s Dear Evan Hansen. He joins us to talk about his experience taking over the title role in the show—which ends its Broadway run this fall—and his Jewish-Asian identity. We hear from friend of the show Abigail Pogrebin about her new Tablet project, The Minyan, a series of roundtable discussions about the state of the Jewish community in America from a variety of perspectives. She shares a bit of audio from her first installment, a discussion with LGBTQ Jews. We also check in with former guest Jonathan Ornstein, director of the Krakow JCC, who tells us about the work they are doing to help Ukrainian refugees. 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. Find out about our upcoming events at tabletmag.com/unorthodoxlive. 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.

0:38.2

This is on Orthodox, the universe's leading Jewish podcast.

0:47.7

I am your host, Mark Oppenheimer, joined as ever by my co-hosts, Stephanie Buttnick.

0:52.6

Hello, good evening.

0:54.1

Good evening.

0:55.1

It is Monday evening.

0:56.1

We're going to jump on the week's news, and my other co-host, Leo Liebowitz.

1:00.5

I raise my martini to you, friends.

1:02.9

That is a beautiful glass.

1:04.4

Well, thank you.

1:05.4

Are you one of those people, Leo, who believes that the drink tastes better when drunk out

1:09.3

of a better glass?

1:10.6

Absolutely.

1:11.6

What do you mean, believes that like element of faith?

1:14.9

It's science.

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