Unorthodox Turns 3! Ep. 149

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Happy birthday to us! We're celebrating three years of Unorthodox with a very special episode featuring our hosts, producers, and Tablet staffers reflecting on some of our most memorable segments. Tablet editor-in-chief Alana Newhouse revisits our very first episode, and shares her initial doubts about our audio adventure; host Liel Leibovitz reflects on his contentious Ep. 25 interview with Jewish Voice for Peace's Rebecca Vilkomerson, and what he learned from the interaction; and Tablet executive editor Wayne Hoffman delights in our Ep. 121 live show interview with comedian Judy Gold, where she offered a Field Guide to the Jewish Mother. Producer Noah Levinson teleports a few hundred news cycles back to Ep. 120 , where we called up Roy Moore's Jewish lawyer Martin Wishnatsky, who also happens to be a practicing Christian; and producer Shira Telushkin shares her unexpected takeaway from Ep. 137, where Yossi Klein Halevi discussed his book about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Host Mark Oppenheimer reminisces about his Ep. 119 interview with West Virginia rabbi Joseph Hample, who described his unlikely journey to the rabbinate—and West Virginia; Producer Josh Kross gets taken for a ride in the Mitzvah Tank in Ep. 143, and is surprised to find he doesn't hate it; and host Stephanie Butnick takes a trip to East Grand Forks, Minnesota, to visit one of our favorite guests. We love hearing from you! Email us at Unorthodox@tabletmag.com with your favorite interviews over the past three years, or leave a message at our listener line: 914-570-4869. We may share your note on the air. Please also consider leaving a review in iTunes. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and join our Facebook group to chat with the hosts and see what happens behind-the-scenes! Sign up for our weekly newsletter to get new episodes, photos, and more. Show your love for Unorthodox with our new T-shirts, sweatshirts, and baby onesies. Get yours at bit.ly/unorthoshirt This episode is also brought to you by Harry’s. Get your trial shave set at Harrys.com/UNORTHODOX. This episode is also sponsored by the 2019 Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Awards. Do you know a Jewish teen making a difference? Nominate them for the $36,000 award at dillerteenawards.org.

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0:35.0	Hi, it's Stella again. Today is my birthday so I get to a curse.
0:37.0	It's also an orthodox birthday so they get to curse too.
0:40.0	This has been your obscenity warning. This is unorthodox, the world's leading Jewish podcast.
0:48.0	I am one of your host, Stephanie Butnik, here in the studio with Lea Leibowitz.
0:52.0	Hello.
0:53.0	And on the phone we have Mark Oppenheimer,
0:55.6	newly a dad of five.
0:58.2	Oh yeah, just call me Tevya.
1:00.6	Mark, tell us everything.
1:03.0	Everything's fine.
1:05.0	It's true that as we record on Tuesday morning, day after Labor Day, that one might say why am I not in the hospital with Sid. So first of all I
1:16.6	had to come home late last night after our son was born because today was
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