Your comments interest me because, while I agree with your general observations, "outsider" viewing of "insider" community conservations and controversies (which depart from the normative, stereotyped image) often provoke considerable ...
I am intrigued by your post, and the observations you make on the shows you cite are accurate. However, I can think of at least two spaces--neither of them present in popular culture, though--where one sees Jewishness and lesbianism in the same place. O ...
I think the problem you identify has to do with a larger issue of preconceived images (and, hence, representations) of religion and here, more specifically, the religious difference that is Judaism. I assume that the dominant public face of Judaism waver ...
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