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The Minyan: Ep 410

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

This week on Unorthodox, we’re highlighting the latest installment of The Minyan, Tablet’s roundtable series on American Jewish life, hosted by Abigail Pogrebin. Tablet’s Executive Editor Wayne Hoffman discusses the newest offering, which features a conversation with Jews from the former Soviet Union. Their stories of endurance and emigration resonate always, but especially during Passover. You can read this and previous installments of The Minyan at tabletmag.com/minyan. And don’t miss the Tablet member Zoom on May 9 discussing the issues raised by participants. Find out more at tabletmag.com/sovietjews. We’re excited to share a special opportunity for Unorthodox listeners to join Tablet. As Tablet members, you’ll get exclusive access to Tablet events, a chance to hear your name in an on-air mazel tov, and more! Learn more at tabletm.ag/uomember. Write to us at unorthodox@tabletmag.com, or leave a voicemail on our listener line: (914) 570-4869. Unorthodox is produced by Tablet Studios. Check out all of our podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

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0:00.0

Hey J crew, it's producer Josh Cross.

0:05.0

An Orthodox is off this week for Passover, but we wanted to share something from tablet that feels especially relevant this holiday season.

0:12.0

The Minion, Table's series of roundtable discussions

0:14.6

with everyday Jews, as a new special installment, a conversation with Jews from

0:18.7

the former Soviet Union, moderated as always by Abigail Pogribin.

0:23.0

We asked tablet executive director Wayne Hoffman to explain this multilingual edition of the Minion

0:28.0

and to talk about why the Minion itself is one of his favorite things published by tablet.

0:33.0

You can find the Russian speakers minion at tablet mag.com slash minion.

0:37.0

But first, here's Stephanie with Wayne Hoffman welcome back to Unorthodox.

0:47.0

You've been on the show a bunch over the years so you're Welcome back to Unorthodox. Thank you.

0:53.0

You've been on the show a bunch over the years, so your name may be familiar to some of our

0:57.2

listeners, but I want you to fully, just like introduce yourself.

1:00.0

Tell us who you are.

1:01.0

I am tablet's executive editor,

1:03.8

which means I oversee parts of the magazine directly,

1:06.4

like the community section,

1:08.2

and the food section, and the holiday section,

1:10.3

and the belief section.

1:11.5

I've been at tablet now since the beginning, since

1:13.7

before the beginning and came to tablet from the forward and before that

1:17.9

billboard magazine and we're going back now into the Dark Ages. So tell us about some of the things that you publish in your sections.

1:26.5

One of the things that we publish a lot of in my sections that I really love are personal

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