Return of the Shiksa Ep. 2

JL;DR SUMMARY In episode 2 of "Return of the Shiksa," Host Mark Oppenheimer and Tablet staffers Stephanie Butnick and Liel Leibovitz discuss the European Maccabiah Games held in Berlin, where they touch on Mike Huckabee's Holocaust analogy, an investigation into academic rigor in NYC's Orthodox yeshivas, and Hilary Liftin's novel "Movie Star By Lizzie Pepper" about a Hollywood starlet in a strange cult. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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