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…
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.
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