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mbat · 4 months ago

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kinda sad that there isnt, to my knowledge, much kids shows/movies that focus really on jewish stuff more than the one or two episodes where they talk about hannukah or someones bar/bat mitzvah, and maybe talk about some cultural food lol

like yeah its a religion but its also a culture and theres so many things about so many groups now and yet not really that one and like, when was the last time there was even a jewish protagonist in a kids show, i can think of like... one. jews are usually a main characters friend, or a side character.

honestly more than anything this just comes back to me not knowing much about my own culture and wishing id had a show that let me know about it, or even a show that would happen now that would teach people about it more than just being about the same 2 holidays/events yknow

#barney guttman my beloved i would fucking die for you barney guttman #do you know how many times i cried watching his song where he thinks about marrying logs #and hes wearing a fucking yarmulke and he steps on the glass cup and a #im getting off track ok #my post #you could argue the pines are jewish but aside from some out of universe confirmation that at least the stans are #its. pretty unclear tbh.#i mean i know theyre based on alex and his sister and theyre jewish(?) but still #and thats. literally the only jewish protagonists i can think of #in kids media anyway. im not talking about adult media at all here #i know the culture can tend to get a bit lost in diaspora. especially in the US where it feels like cultures are a big mixed mess #and christian culture takes over pretty much everything #but i know theres more to it than just hannukah or bar/bat(b'nai?) mitzvahs. even just holiday-wise #and idk i just. augh i feel like i sound ridiculous #is it weird to say that of all things the thing that caused me to think about this was watching a video about primos #blahhh i give up i feel like im not saying anything right

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