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In Defense of the Hot Rabbi
“A gorgeous sex podcaster who falls for a charming rabbi. What’s not to love?” writes Suzy Weiss for The Free Press. (Nobody Wants This via Netflix)
Some critics claim a new Netflix rom-com is antisemitic. They’re just late to the punchline.
By Suzy Weiss
10.15.24 — Culture and Ideas
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Netflix’s newest chart-topper, Nobody Wants This, is about a gorgeous sex podcaster who falls for a charming rabbi. What’s not to love? Here is a highly accessible story featuring Jews that is not about escaping an insular ultra-Orthodox community to be a fashion mogul, or escaping an insular ultra-Orthodox community to move to Berlin, or even about the…

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Suzy Weiss
Suzy Weiss is a co-founder and reporter for The Free Press. Before that, she worked as a features reporter at the New York Post. There, she covered the internet, culture, dating, dieting, technology, and Gen Z. Her work has also appeared in Tablet, the New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others.
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