Break out the bug juice—it’s summer camp week on Unorthodox! We’re talking campfires, Color War, and Mark’s traumatic summer at a nudist camp. Our first guest is Sandy Fox, a doctoral candidate studying language and everyday life in Zionist, Y

Children of Kindness: Episode 95

Jun 22nd, 2017 50m 33s

Description: This week on Unorthodox, don’t even think about cutting Israel out of Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat.Our Jewish guest is journalist and Tablet columnist Jamie Kirchick, who returns to the show to discuss his new book, The En

Talking Jewish With Lexicon Valley: Ep. 94

Jun 15th, 2017 39m 44s

This week, we recorded a special crossover episode with Lexicon Valley, the podcast hosted by linguist John McWhorter. John was a guest on our show in December 2016, and when we weren’t interrupting him, we were discussing things like the word

The Minyan

4 days ago 19m 54s

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 featu

In Every Generation

11 days ago 51m 20s

This week on the show, we’re taking time to remember. Memory is at the core of so much of Jewish life and tradition, especially during Passover. So we’re sharing several stories about memories, from the individual to the collective, and from

Let All Who Are Hungry

14 days ago 35m 17s

Around the world, food insecurity impacts far too many lives. As the war rages on, and hunger threatens so many inside and outside of Israel, the words of the Haggadah implore: “Let all who are hungry come and eat.” Before we sit down for our f

Popping Up

18 days ago 1h 5m

This week on the show, there’s a new (Jewish) sheriff in town.First, another story from our recent reporting trip to Israel. Liel sat down with IDF soldier Shavit Romero, who shared his journey from growing up non-Jewish in Tel Aviv, to getti

Join the Club

25 days ago 1h 11m

This week on the show, we’re sharing stories from our second reporting trip to Israel. Former First Lady of Israel Lihi Lapid joins us to discuss her newly translated novel, On Her Own, about two Israeli families in crisis, as well as finding

Shaken, Not Schnorred

Mar 28th, 2024 1h 33m

This week on Unorthodox, we’re hoping the Jewish James Bond rumours are true. Plus, interviews with three awesome Jews: Dan Pashman, host of The Sporkful podcast, joins us to talk about his new cookbook, Anything’s Pastable: 81 Inventive Past

A Beautifully Jewish Shabbat

Mar 21st, 2024 1h 10m

This week on the show, we are all about Shabbat. First, we’re sharing the latest installment of Beautifully Jewish, in which Stephanie Butnick and Tanya Singer explore all the beauty of Shabbat with the help of Adeena Sussman, author of the n

Irrefutably Jewish

Mar 14th, 2024 1h 32m

This week on the show, we refuse to refute.Phil Rosenthal of Somebody Feed Phil returns to the show to discuss his new children’s book, Just Try It!, which he co-wrote with his daughter Lily. (You can listen to Phil’s previous Unorthodox inte

Spiritual Swear Jar

Mar 7th, 2024 1h 9m

This week on Unorthodox, we can’t believe we missed YentaCon. Our first guest is director Andrew Goldberg, whose new PBS documentary Armenia, My Home uncovers some of the parallels between Armenian and Jewish life.We also speak with Eylon L

Bonus

What Really Matters - Biden, Tucker, Putin, Trump

Feb 29th, 2024 30m 27s

Unorthodox is off this week, but today we're sharing an episode from the Tablet podcast What Really Matters with Walter Russell MeadThis week, Walter and Jeremy talk Putin endorsing Biden, Putin dissing Tucker Carlson, Trump dissing NATO, and

Bonus

Jewish Priorities: Life After 10/7 - Can We Even Sit On a Panel Together?

Feb 27th, 2024 50m 35s

Unorthodox is off this week, but today we're sharing an episode from Jewish Priorities: Life After 10/7, a 6-part series of panels taken from a live event hosted by Stephanie Butnick and Liel Leibovitz at the Weitzman National Museum of America

We Can Help

Feb 22nd, 2024 1h 9m

This week on Unorthodox, we won’t be hitting the slopes in Switzerland.Our Jewish guest this week is Ted Deutch, former U.S. Congressman and current CEO of the American Jewish Committee. He joins us to talk about the AJC’s new Report on the S

Kosher Fiesta

Feb 15th, 2024 59m 58s

This week on Unorthodox, we’re kashering the FIESTA dishware. Our Jewish guest this week is Neta Ariel, director of the Maaleh School of Film and Television in Jerusalem. She shares how her film students are working to raise awareness for the

Slam Dunk

Feb 8th, 2024 1h 2m

This week on Unorthodox, we’re regretting doing those DNA tests.Our Gentile of the Week is NBA All-Star and former New York Knick Allan Houston, who shares his new faith-based initiative, FISLL. He was joined by FISLL Youth Ambassador, Jewish

Higher Ground

Feb 1st, 2024 43m 39s

This week on Unorthodox, we’re all about the two-strain solution. We talk to Jewish actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who played Meadow Soprano on the HBO show, The Sopranos. She tells us about her experience on the hit show, and everything she’s be

Things Remembered

Jan 25th, 2024 52m 50s

This week on Unorthodox, we’re devoting the episode to stories of remembrance. We share a teaser from Covering Their Tracks, a new Tablet Studios series that tells the story of the French National Railway’s complicity with the Nazis during WW

100 Days

Jan 18th, 2024 1h 2m

It’s been more than 100 days since Hamas massacred more than 1,300 Israelis and kidnapped hundreds more into Gaza. To commemorate this grim milestone, we are pausing our regular programming to honor those who were killed that day and those stil

First Drafts

Jan 11th, 2024 1h 9m

This week on Unorthodox, we’re trading Shia LaBeouf for Alanis Morrisette. Our Jewish guest is comedian and podcaster Moshe Kasher, who tells us about his new book, Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes—especially the Jewish stuff. We’

Heading North

Dec 28th, 2023 59m 10s

This week on Unorthodox, it’s our final episode of 2023.We bring you the latest installment of The Archive, our series exploring the collection of the National Library of Israel. This one is all about Franz Kafka: his feelings on Zionism, his

Unorthodox in Israel: Special Delivery

Dec 22nd, 2023 23m 11s

This week, Unorthodox is publishing daily dispatches from Israel. On Friday, Tanya Singer delivers the fruits of the Beautifully Jewish Craft-Along, bringing handknit hats to IDF soldiers, crocheted dolls to hospitalized children, and handmade

Unorthodox in Israel: What’s the Buzz

Dec 21st, 2023 44m 10s

This week, Unorthodox is publishing daily dispatches from Israel. On Thursday, we meet some of the non-Jews who make up the Jewish state. We visit El Masar Elementary School in Daliyat El Carmel and speak with Druze students, parents, and teac

Unorthodox in Israel: At the Shuk

Dec 20th, 2023 39m 17s

This week, Unorthodox is publishing daily dispatches from Israel. Today, we catch up with cookbook author Adeena Sussman and take a trip to the Shuk HaCarmel, southern Tel Aviv’s famous open-air market, to get a taste of how Israel’s famed foo