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Rick Richman - Hollywood and the Land, People and State of Israel Ep. 98

Good Faith Effort

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Jewishness in Brooklyn

In American Pickle, the protagonist ignores Jewishness in Brooklyn as an alternative to his current identity. Why does Hollywood undertake this shift from having that Jew in Brooklyn be a haven and escape versus having it be something that you should ignore or can ignore? It's the passage of 20 years. And perhaps it's because it's too associated with Orthodox Jews. We look funny, right? Controversial, yeah, controversial.

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