Betting the House: Ep. 99

Episode description: This week, we’re coming at you live from JCC Manhattan, with some very special guests and other fun surprises.

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Our Jew of the week is Harry Enten, senior political writer and analyst for FiveThirtyEight and a regular on the site’s Politics Podcast. He tells us about the Catskills resort his grandparents owned—where Neil Sedaka met Enten’s aunt, whom he later married—plus why he loves Twitter, where he has nearly 95,000 followers, and what dating was like as a poll analyst after the election.

Our Gentile of the Week is Haroon Moghul, author of How to Be a Muslim: An American Story and a fellow in Jewish-Muslim Relations at the Shalom Hartman Institute. He tells us the dumbest things he’s been asked while promoting his book, plus how a 2015 trip to Israel with Muslim and Jewish leaders changed the course of his career, and what he wants the rest of us to know about American Muslims.

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Music:

"Mikveh Bath" by Golem

"Ruthless" by the Statler Brothers

"Harry Enten is Looking for a Girlfriend" by Jonathan Mann

"Love Will Keep Us Together" by Neil Sedaka

"Mounsell Forts/Accent on the 'A'" by Roger Plexico, prod. Squish Turner, ft. Haroon Mogul