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You Do You Ep. 12

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2015

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week on Unorthodox, James Franco’s star-studded bar mitzvah for charity (seriously, it raised $2.5 million); a viral video celebrating—with spoken word poetry—the diversity of the Jewish people; and how Malcolm Gladwell can help us understand the recent rash of violent stabbing attacks in Israel. Our Jewish guest is Shulem Deen, whose moving memoir, All Who Go Do Not Return, describes his journey out of the Skverer Hasidic sect. Deen—who’s now on the board of Footsteps, an organization that offers support and community for people leaving ultra-Orthodoxy—tells us about the different challenges faced by men and women who leave the community, what the secular world can learn from the close-knit Haredi world, and the first movies he ever watched. Our non-Jewish guest is Wall Street Journal sports columnist Jason Gay, whose new book, Little Victories: Perfect Rules for Imperfect Living, offers a humorous blueprint for living a slightly more relaxed and fulfilling life. He asks what the reaction would be today if a Jewish pitcher declined to play in the World Series because of Yom Kippur, as Los Angeles Dodger Sandy Koufax famously did in 1965. We love hearing from you. Email Unorthodox@tabletmag.com with questions, comments, or complaints. We’ll share our favorites on the air.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What better way to be proudly Jewish right now than with our book, the Newish Jewish Encyclopedia?

0:07.0

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

0:10.0

and it covers everything from Jewish history, pop holidays and of course food all with our trademark irreverence and love

0:16.8

Our publisher is offering a special 20% discount on newest Jewish and their entire Hanukk shop. So head to Artisan Books.com

0:24.0

and use the code unorthodox at check out.

0:26.5

That's Artisan Books.

0:28.1

Discount code, unorthodox, all caps.

0:43.4

caps. week like all weeks by deputy editor Stephanie Butnick. Hi, hi.

0:44.5

And senior writer Leah Leibowitz.

0:46.3

Ah, Leibowitz, Ah,

0:47.4

Borocher-Sham.

0:48.6

What did that mean?

0:49.1

What did you say to us?

0:50.0

Hello to you.

0:51.3

Don't you speak coexistence Mark?

0:52.8

I don't know.

0:54.4

Later in the show we'll be talking with Sholum Dean

0:56.7

whose memoir, All Who Go Do Not Return is Kick-ass.

1:00.2

I'll just leave it at that for now.

1:01.7

And our guest Gentile, or as Colin McEnroe

1:04.4

asked to be called on last week's episode,

1:06.4

Tokin Goy or Goykin, Jason Gay of the Wall Street Journal,

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