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Mark Oppenheimer

MARK OPPENHEIMER has been covering American religion for 25 years. He holds a Ph.D. in religious studies from Yale, and has taught at Stanford, Wesleyan, Wellesley, NYU, Boston College, and Yale, where he was the founding director of the Yale Journalism Initiative. From 2010 to 2016, he wrote the "Beliefs" column, about religion, for The New York Times, and he has also written for publications including The New Yorker, The Nation, GQ, Slate, and many more. He created Unorthodox, the world's most popular podcast about Jewish life and culture, with over 7 million downloads to date. More recently, he hosted an eight-part podcast called Gatecrashers, about the history of Jews and antisemitism at Ivy League schools. He is the author of five books, including The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia and, most recently, Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, four daughters, one son, and two dogs.
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Tue Mar 10 | 06:30 PM
RJ Julia Booksellers
768 Boston Post Road
Madison, CT 06443-3047
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Wed Mar 11 | 07:30 PM
[words] Bookstore
179 Maplewood Avenue
Maplewood, NJ 07040-2509
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Thu Mar 12 | 06:00 PM
The Country Bookshop
140 NW Broad Street
SOUTHERN PINES, NC 28387-4801
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The Lynx Books
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Gainesville, FL 32601-6719
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Mon Mar 16 | 06:30 PM
An Unlikely Story
111 South Street
Plainville, MA 02762-2043
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The Book Stall
811 Elm Street
Winnetka, IL 60093-2236
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