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Jewish Images on Television/Movies.....
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Anyone like to comment on Jewish images on television/Movies?  For example by chance I saw a episode of fictional soap Opera "L.A. Law"  in which a Jewish Couple is  appearing before a Orthadox Beth Din for a divorce...the husband claims to be a devout Jewish person..but in fact hes a yuppie who want to be millionaire before he's 30 his soon to be ex wife has a very personel property of a very expansive house...he blackmails her into signing over the house deed in return for a Get....no sooner does he receive the deed....and she has the Get.....however things end happy for the ex-wife....as they are both watching a TV newscast....the property {house on a cliff} falls into the sea because of an earthquake....reducing the ex husbands million dollar property to exactly O.00!!!! Cool Big Grin

Also of course is ethnic sterotyping on TV .....Rod Serling who was a narrator and writer for the Twilight Zone was Jewish but.....not immune to sterotyping.....case in point {Jewish Actor} Luther Alder stars as a pawnbrokker....who has all the personel luck of the naviagtor of the RMS Titanic.....first he accidently breaks his display case glass...then he finds a bottle with  a genie and gets 4 wishes....His first wish for the display case to be repaired...his second wishis to be rich.....until he gets audited by the IRS....then he foolishly wishes to be a powerful person....and becomes Adolf Hitler....for his last wish he wishes himself back to being his normal self....and breaks the display case.... In regard to Nazis....there were two TZ epsidoes...one is of a sadistic U boat Captain who is doomed to forever live the nightmare of a ship passengers he order to be massacred....the second is a sadistic former SS Officer who goes on a trip back to a KZ camp he had commanded..and who goes insane after being judged by the ghosts of the persons he murdered...a 3rd episode is about the ghost of adolf hitler .. trying to revtialize a group of would be Nazis...the Irionic thing about these episdoes....the main actors were all Jewish!
U-boat Captain played by Nemehiah Persoff...born in Jerusalem and served US Army in World War II
SS officer  was played by Oscar Berghi
Would be Nazi played by Howard Caine (SS Major/Gestapo Hawksetter on "Hogan's Heros") (born Howard Cohen who served iN US Navy in World WAr II}
and of Course "Hogan heros"  Werner Klemperer  played Colonel Klunk; John Banner playes Sgt Schultz;  Leon Askin played Gen Burkhalter;  Howard Caine (Above); Robert Clary....played La boo [Banner: Askin; Clary were in KZ Camps; Klemper; ASkin; Banner; Caine US Service World War II)   I felt a little uneasy about Jewish Actors playing Nazis in the aftermath of World War II
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#2
When Jews play their own stereotypes (Alan King, Don Ricles, Wooda Allen etc...) one has to take this light-hearted. This isn't the equivalent of the insultive charicatures of which were drawn by national socialist cartoonists.
It brings to mind how a Native American once appeared on an interview and was derisively laughing at how Hollywood portrayed Native Americans as impulsive savages.
Let's not forget that the oversensitivity to these issues are something new, when looking back at earlier television. Imagine if modern-day Virtue Warriors were to sit in the audience of a Dean Martin Roast:

 
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Wink 
Don Rickles was the mouth that Roared....yet he did so well...he was actually funny....I remember one time on TV he said came back from a trip to Israel...said he felt safe because he saw T shirts reading "Uzi does it" [i.e keeping one safe from harm...]
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