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Walk With Me, Unorthodox: Ep. 131

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This week on Unorthodox, a crossover episode! We're joined by Joshua Malina and Hrishikesh Hirway, hosts of The West Wing Weekly podcast, an episode-by-episode discussion of one of television's most beloved shows. Malina, who played Will Bailey on The West Wing, currently stars in Scandal, which will air its series finale later this month. Hirway, a musician and composer, is the creator and host of the Song Exploder podcast. We talk about revisiting the glory days of early aughts TV programming, being Jewish on Twitter, and, of course, Jewish food. We also talk to Rabbi Rick Eisenberg, who left the pulpit to work as an opioid addiction counselor in the Jewish community. We love hearing from our listeners! Email us or leave a message at our new listener line: 914-570-4869. We may share your note on the air. Want more Unorthodox in your life? 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 here: bit.ly/Unorthoshirt. This episode is sponsored by the UJA Federation of New York. Join their “Matzah Challenge” on social media. Snap a picture of your matzah using the hashtag #MatzahChallenge. Every photo posted with the hashtag will result in an $18 donation to help someone in need. This episode is also sponsored by Harry’s. Get a free trial shave set when you sign up at harrys.com/unorthodox.

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It's the perfect coffee table book for your proud Jewish home,

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and it covers everything from Jewish history pop culture holidays and of course food

0:14.2

all with our trademark irreverence and love our publisher is offering a special

0:18.8

20% discount on newest Jewish and their entire Hanukah shop. So head to artisan books

0:23.3

and use the code unorthodox at check out. That's artisan books.com, discount code

0:28.6

unorthodox, all caps. So this week we talked to the host of The West Wing Weekly, and though it's about the show,

0:36.0

The West Wing, which hasn't been on the air in some years,

0:38.0

it reminds us of The West Wing right now,

0:41.0

and that like kind of gets me a little a little

0:43.7

heated so there may be swearing on this week's episode this has been your

0:48.1

obscenity warning. So my kids nursery school the principal sent out a

0:52.1

principal director sent out an email

0:54.0

with the subject line missing,

0:56.0

and then it's like,

0:57.0

one of our children is missing a bike helmet.

0:59.0

I'm like, that is not the subject line

1:01.0

if you want that.

1:02.0

That's not how you talk to Jews yeah so one of our

1:04.6

children's is missing one of our children is missing a bike helmet

1:08.6

a bike helmet

1:11.6

hello monsie eating Jews this is unorthodox, the world's leading Jewish

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