Actor Joshua Malina is new co-host of US based podcast Unorthodox

The West Wing actor Joshua Malina is the new co-host of Unorthodox, the Jewish publication Tablet Magazine’s podcast.

He joins current hosts Stephanie Butnick and Liel Leibovitz on the podcast, which was launched in 2015. It has a passionate audience of tens of thousands of listeners, who call themselves the J-Crew. Each episode features a segment called News of the Jews, as well as interviews with both a Jewish guest and Gentile of the Week.

Previous guests have included actors Nick Kroll, Kathryn Hahn, David Duchovny, and Clive Owen; food personalities Molly Yeh, Jake Cohen, and Adeena Sussman; spiritual leaders Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Father James Martin, Swami Tyaganada; designers Jonathan Adler, Isaac Mizrahi, and Rebecca Minkoff; comedians Judy Gold, Alex Edelman, and Zarna Garg; writers Gabrielle Zevin, Nick Hornby, and Zibby Owens; elected officials including Joe Lieberman, Jared Polis, and Katie Porter, and many others.

Unorthodox is listened to across diverse Jewish communities worldwide and has also become assigned listening in rabbi-led conversion classes.

Co-hosts, Stephanie Butnick and Liel Leibovitz added: “There’s a term in linguistics called cooperative overlapping, which basically means excitedly interrupting each other. It’s how Jews speak, and we very much look forward to cooperatively overlapping with Joshua Malina.

“We’ve been his fans for years and think that his passion and commitment to being a loud and proud Jew will bring a new and joyful spirit to the show.”

New episodes of Unorthodox are released every Thursday on all platforms and Joshua Malina joins from 25 May.