Meredith Shiner, award winning journalist, speaks with Rabbi Sherman about her newly released podcast, The Franchise: Jews, Sports, and America, hosted by Tablet. A former national political reporter in Washington, Meredith’s writing has appeared in Politico, Roll Call, Congressional Quarterly, The Economist, Yahoo News, Rolling Stone, The Daily Beast, The New Republic, Yahoo Sports and Deadspin.  Meredith has appeared on MSNBC, PBS Newshour, Fox News, CNBC, ESPN-2, C-SPAN, NPR, ESPN Radio, and Yahoo News! With Katie Couric. Meredith also has a background in sports, having covered college athletics, the intersection of sports and politics, and obscure Congressional sports history and rituals.