The Jews! They’re not just in New York and Hollywood, but in fairytale American hamlets like “Pine Bend,” as depicted in the latest interfaith rom-com from Hallmark Channel called (and you may want to sit down for this one) Oy to the World. And these Hebrews, why, they are just like us, though their hair is a little curlier, they tend to crack more jokes, and they can’t stop talking about something called kugel.
To watch this trifling, benign bit of holiday programming as a Jew in 2025 — a year where you’ve got rightwing podcasters saying things that would make Charles Coughlin blush and protesters on the left laying siege to synagogues — is a curious experience. There are real problems in America right now, so if a well-meaning Hallmark movie trucks in some hoary stereotypes now and then, it’s not exactly the end of the world.
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