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Swiping Right: Ep. 173

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Religion & Spirituality, Judaism, Society & Culture

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

This week on Unorthodox, an update from Belgium, and Lin-Manuel Miranda's bar mitzvah-dancing past. This week's interviews were recorded live at the Marlene Meyerson Manhattan JCC during our Valentine's Day show. Our Jewish guest is dating app ghostwriter Meredith Golden, whose job is to make your dating profile better and to get you dates! She tells us about the mistakes most men and women are making on their profiles, and polls the audience about with dating apps they prefer. Our next guests are Jess Salomon and Eman El-Husseini, married comedians from Canada. Jess is Jewish and Eman is Palestinian, and they tell us about how they met, what their parents think, and the comedy they've found in the tensions of their particular union. This episode is brought to you by Unorthodox Wine, offering beautiful kosher wines from South Africa. Get free shipping on any order when you visit bitly.com/unorthowine. This episode is brought to you KOL Foods, delivering the best tasting, healthiest, most sustainable, and most ethically raised meat anywhere! Go to KOLFoods.com and use the code UNORTHODOX to receive a 10 percent discount on your next order. The Jewish Education Project is doing incredible work empowering Jewish educators across the country. On April 11, the Jewish Education Project is throwing a party honoring its retiring CEO Bob Sherman, and recognizing the impact of the UJA-Federation New York’s John Ruskay and Alisa Rubin Kurshan .Visit JewishEdProject.org/Benefit and use the promo code UNORTHODOX for a special discount for Unorthodox listeners.

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from Jewish history, pop culture, holidays, and of course food,

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all with our trademark, irreverence, and love.

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and use the code unorthodox at check out.

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That's Artisan Books.com, discount code,

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unorthodox, all caps. I'm joined as ever by my co-host.

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Tablet senior writer Leah Leibovitz.

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I'm not a dar bin bin bin bin bin Khar.

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Adarshiny.

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Adar Beth, The Revenge.

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And Tablet deputy editor Stephanie Butnet.

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What's up?

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Today we will be playing some tape from our live show

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at the JCC Manhattan

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where we talk to dating app Ghostwriter Meredith Golden.

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Other guests this week we have a Jew Gentile of the week combo, a mashup, married comedians

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Jess Solomon and Imman El Hosseini, a Jewish and Palestinian Canadian American wifely couple.

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What is up?

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