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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jewish person here.

I thought the show was cute and like/rooted for Joanne and Noah. I also thought it was completely ridiculous. 
First off Joanne didn’t go to college and her only income is as a local podcast host (how can she even afford to live?). Jews tend to value education - she has a high school diploma and seemingly little worldly knowledge (has never heard the word shalom?). Though it seems she DOES know what it means to keep kosher, just doesn’t know that the meats were pork, which makes no sense. 
If he were a reform rabbi a lot of this wouldn’t matter. His temple is clearly more religious. And that makes it all the more unbelievable. 
All of which would be fine- this is entertainment.  But I think it’s awful that the jewish creator of a TV show portrays Jewish people in such stereotypical and not great ways during a time in history when anti-semitism is on the rise. 
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Jewish NP here - I started the thread about this show in the religion forum. Do you think that his synagogue is conservative or orthodox? I thought conservative at first - just based on how people reacted to her being not Jewish - but he doesn't keep Shabbat, doesn't seem to keep kosher, etc. So I just assume he's a reform rabbi. It seems really weird to me that a reform congregation would get SO worked up by an interfaith couple - the temple is probably full of them!

I can't stop watching this show but also it really bothers me. I don't understand how Joanne, who grew up in LA, knows so very little about Judaism either.

Sasha is my favorite character so far, and I really enjoy his wife Esther, too. I think we're supposed to hate her but I don't, not at all.[/quote]

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