I had fun watching the show, and yes, I admit I was entertained. But I kept thinking that non-Jews watching this show are getting such a ridiculously distorted and shallow portrayal of Judaism. The rabbi, who doesn’t even don a kippa on his head, gives a very church-like sermon on Shabbat and then goes out to a bar with his brothers and …
I had fun watching the show, and yes, I admit I was entertained. But I kept thinking that non-Jews watching this show are getting such a ridiculously distorted and shallow portrayal of Judaism. The rabbi, who doesn’t even don a kippa on his head, gives a very church-like sermon on Shabbat and then goes out to a bar with his brothers and the ‘shiksa’ sisters - on Shabbat! In another ridiculous scene he comes searching for her in a restaurant, after getting advice from his female rabbi who does don a kippa, to make a kiddush and light candles again in the middle of the restaurant-bar (he makes the blessing over the candles which is a blessing made by women not men BEFORE the sun sets)??? And then asks his brother how to make a havdallah when the Sabbath comes out - I think they Google how to it. I’d make a better rabbi:) And he’s not so concerned about falling in love with a non-Jew, but about how it might jeopardize his job? What kind of a rabbi is he? Oy vey!!! He would make a perfectly cute secular Jew, but a rabbi is a really far stretch.
good fair points, Debbie ! From the review I learned he wasn't a rabbi in the book,. so I suppose had his family strongly objected to him marrying a non-Jew solely for that reason an audience might not have been nearly as sympathetic and so they threw in the job endangerment for added weight,. converting in order to simply please the guy is insufficient unless it endangered his deeply felt calling,.
Thanks, Rob. Missed the discrepancy between the book and series characterization. That would have made so much more sense.
By turning him into a rabbi, feels like a D.E.I. assignment for junior high students. Let’s see how you imagine a rabbi might be like from different pluricultural perspectives;) Let’s not learn from authentic knowledge.
I had fun watching the show, and yes, I admit I was entertained. But I kept thinking that non-Jews watching this show are getting such a ridiculously distorted and shallow portrayal of Judaism. The rabbi, who doesn’t even don a kippa on his head, gives a very church-like sermon on Shabbat and then goes out to a bar with his brothers and the ‘shiksa’ sisters - on Shabbat! In another ridiculous scene he comes searching for her in a restaurant, after getting advice from his female rabbi who does don a kippa, to make a kiddush and light candles again in the middle of the restaurant-bar (he makes the blessing over the candles which is a blessing made by women not men BEFORE the sun sets)??? And then asks his brother how to make a havdallah when the Sabbath comes out - I think they Google how to it. I’d make a better rabbi:) And he’s not so concerned about falling in love with a non-Jew, but about how it might jeopardize his job? What kind of a rabbi is he? Oy vey!!! He would make a perfectly cute secular Jew, but a rabbi is a really far stretch.
good fair points, Debbie ! From the review I learned he wasn't a rabbi in the book,. so I suppose had his family strongly objected to him marrying a non-Jew solely for that reason an audience might not have been nearly as sympathetic and so they threw in the job endangerment for added weight,. converting in order to simply please the guy is insufficient unless it endangered his deeply felt calling,.
Thanks, Rob. Missed the discrepancy between the book and series characterization. That would have made so much more sense.
By turning him into a rabbi, feels like a D.E.I. assignment for junior high students. Let’s see how you imagine a rabbi might be like from different pluricultural perspectives;) Let’s not learn from authentic knowledge.