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Unorthodox

Tablet Magazine

Unorthodox is the world’s leading Jewish podcast™ - but you don’t have to be Jewish to love it! Hosted by Mark Oppenheimer, Stephanie Butnick, and Liel Leibovitz of Tablet Magazine, each epi...

Episodes

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How to Be a Jew …. Who is Starting a Print Magazine, with Alana Newhouse

Tablet has launched a new print magazine, beginning this June. Why start something so "old fashioned" in the year 2025? Alana Newhouse, our...

24:04May 29, 2025

How to Be a Jew ... Who Says Yes to the Dress

Pnina Tornai became a recognizable name to Americans across the country as a personality and designer on TLC’s Say Yes to the Dress. She sha...

34:06May 14, 2025

How to Be a Jew … Like Israel's Most Famous Female Architect

Ada Karmi-Melamede is an architect who has designed famous buildings across Israel, including the Supreme Court building and the gateway to...

28:01May 7, 2025

How To Do Activism Right, with Jay Ruderman, Tuly Weisz, and Pesach Wolicki

These days, it seems like everyone is a so-called activist. Activism itself seems to have morphed into something different; it’s not about o...

45:15May 1, 2025

How to Be a Jew ... or an ally like Zarna Garg

Zarna Garg is a comedian whose standup centers around her life as an Indian mom in America. She joins us to discuss her new book, This Ameri...

22:05Apr 30, 2025

Israel’s Most Controversial Politician, with Itamar Ben-Gvir

There’s no more divisive Israeli public figure than Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir. Starting out his career as a Kahanist fir...

44:52Apr 24, 2025

How to Be a Jew … like Matisyahu

After bursting onto the music scene with his 2005 single “King without a Crown,” Matisyahu has built a career mixing a unique combination of...

29:04Apr 23, 2025

Passover Crossover - How to Be a Jew ... Like Dara Horn

Rootless is off this week for Passover, but we wanted to bring you an episode of How to Be a Jew we think you'll like. Like most Jews, the n...

49:14Apr 17, 2025

Passover Crossover - Rootless - Why Dual Loyalty is Good for the Jews, with Rabbi Nolan Lebovitz

We're off this week for Passover, but we wanted to bring you an episode of Rootless we think you'll like. Rootless: Here's Why Dual Loyalty...

46:05Apr 16, 2025

Why Oct. 7 Victims Are Suing a Palestinian Mogul, with Gary Osen

When people concerned with the future of the Palestinian people talk about the future, they often say, hopefully, that change will come only...

42:46Apr 10, 2025

How to Be a Jew … on Passover

This week on How to Be a Jew, we have questions, and answers too. As we all get ready for Passover we’re tackling some of the thorniest… and...

31:45Apr 9, 2025

Why God Was Right, with Mark Gerson

Like most highly successful entrepreneurs, Mark Gerson likes things he can measure, quantify, and know for certain. So as a student of the T...

50:31Apr 3, 2025

How to Be a Jew … Like Ayelet Zurer

Unorthodox is the world’s leading Jewish podcast™ - but you don’t have to be Jewish to love it! Hosted by Mark Oppenheimer, Stephanie Butnic...

31:21Apr 2, 2025

How Israel Will Save Western Civilization, with Josh Hammer

In his new and best-selling book, Israel and Civilization, Josh Hammer makes a bold claim: the future of Western civilization depends on the...

43:03Mar 27, 2025

How to Be a Jew… Who Contemplates the Pig

For more than 3,000 years, prohibitions against eating pig has been central to Jewish dietary laws, but it’s also been a potent symbol of Je...

38:45Mar 26, 2025

How Universities Lost Their Way, With Cary Nelson

Universities are meant to be spaces of free inquiry, knowledge, and rigorous debate. But according to academic and writer Cary Nelson, they’...

38:31Mar 20, 2025

How to Be a Jew ... At the World Championships

A few weeks ago, we brought you a conversation with AJ Edelman, the first Orthodox Jew to compete in the Winter Olympics and the pilot of th...

10:18Mar 19, 2025

Why Dual Loyalty is Good for the Jews, with Rabbi Nolan Lebovitz

The charge of dual loyalty has long been a key weapon in the arsenal of anti-Semites everywhere. But in his new book, The Case for Dual Loya...

45:26Mar 13, 2025

How to Be a Jew ... And an Accidental Gunslinger

Salvador Litvak, also known as the Accidental Talmudist, is the filmmaker behind the 2005 cult classic When Do We Eat and the author of Let...

32:58Mar 12, 2025

Why Trump’s Deportation of Mahmoud Khalil is Perfectly Legal, with Ilya Shapiro

Last Saturday, ICE agents detained Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian-born Palestinian who was one of the leaders behind the year-long Tentifadah in C...

16:20Mar 12, 2025