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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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’...
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...
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...
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...
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...