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In an issue of Scrooge McDuck, he first accidentally turns himself green. Then, a fault theme park ride flings the car he’s in across the city. Seeing a green duck stepping out of a rocket ship, onlookers conclude he’s an alien. Seeing a chance for fun, Scrooge says a strange word written in strange characters. Then, he says “Or in your language ‘Peace’.”.
The word he said was peace, in Hebrew. The first thing in that word balloon is a word written in Hebrew.
Babylon 5- At first I thought it was just me. Then, I had my family listen. They agreed that whenever the Narns pray, it sounds like a synagogue of Jews chanting.
We find out Ivanova is Jewish when the rabbi from her home town comes to visit the station. When she presents an alien fish for dinner, the rabbi asks “Is it kosher?”. I was disappointed when Ivanova said that she didn’t know, and he shrugged and ate it anyway.
I must be invisible. See Post #33.
I have that entire series on tape, and somehow I missed that line. I’m gonna have to find it.
But I did learn later that the Pope in that time was female. In the brief successor series to B5, the show Crusade, a brief newscast is seen. It’s about the Pope leading a service in Vatican City and a teeny figure in white can be seen in a procession. The name of the Pope was mentioned as being Bernadette II.
“Racing Mars” is the episode. Around the middle of Season 4.
Somewhat related…I remember Leonard Nimoy explaining that the Vulcan “Live Long and Prosper” hand gesture was based on a gesture he had seen as a kid during an (Orthodox?) Jewish ceremony.
Fire exits?
Well, Ivonova was established as Jewish, but she also made it clear in that ep. that she had pretty much lost her faith. By the end of the ep, the rabbi had helped her gain some of it back, and we even see her lighting a menorah (sp?) at the end of that season.
As to the kosher part, if it’s a fish, odds are it’s pretty damn kosher. I mean, I think even Ivonova, who might not know all the small ins and outs of what is and is not kisher, would know that shellfish is out, so it’s presumably not shellfish and just a regular old swim along the water fishy. Plus, the rabbi’s response is great:
Ivonova: It’s a kind of fish from the Centauri homeworld.
Rabbi: Is it kosher?
Ivonova: I don’t know.
Rabbi: Well…I don’t recall it being mentioned in the torah.
Though, techincally, wouldn’t it be mentioned in the talmund? 
The Torah itself has some pretty specific lists of what’s kosher and what’s not, although the Talmud gets even more specific.
Speaking of Jew-stuff, in the episode of Futurama where they went to the Slurm factory, there was a t-shirt (maybe Fry was wearing it? It’s been a long time) that said “Slurm” in Hebrew. I practically died laughing - for some reason, American tourists in Israel love t-shirts with the Pepsi and Coke logos written in Hebrew. It was such a tiny in-joke, but hysterically funny to the twenty or so viewers who got it.
I don’t know how much a commercial counts as entertainment, but a while back there was a cell phone ad for free calling between family members on the same plan, and there were all these couples looking at phone bills and saying “a trillion minutes?!?! who were you calling!” And the other partner would say “you!” One of the couples was two men. I saw the ad several times before I thought “hey! That’s a little unusual.”
People who comment that Peppermint Patty and Marcie are lesbians seem to be forgetting that they also had crushes on Charlie Brown. (Good grief, Ethilrist, you should know- based on your location box, you live in Sparky’s hometown.) If anything, they’re bisexuals.
I heartily agree.I teared up at the end, especially with the dedication and
Superman’s final words. That was a great episode and I loved it, made me think very highly of the series (and all of the DC animated shows) after that bit.
It was Zoidberg who wore the hebrew shirt.
In the film Love Actually, Liam Neeson plays Daniel, whose eleven-year-old stepson Sam has just said he’s in love. They have this conversation, where Daniel is open to the possibility of the stepson being in love with another boy.
I had no problem with Ivanova being a lapsed Jew. IIRC, by that episode Ivanova had talked to a few people about her mother, and that kind of thing would tend to make people doubt the existence of God and make religious practices seem pointless.
I have a problems with the rabbi so casually eating something without finding out if it’s kosher.
You either have made an error in reading kashrut or an error in calculating those odds.
Not all “regular old swim along the water” fishes are kosher. A fish is only kosher if it has fins and scales. Forbidden fish include- catfish, eel, shark, swordfish and others.
The rabbi’s response is terrible
There’s a long established procedure for deciding if a newly discovered animal is kosher. North American turkeys and bison aren’t mentioned anywhere in the Torah. But, going by the laws that are in the Torah these species are clearly kosher.
It doesn’t matter what planet the fish is from. If it has fins and scales, it’s kosher.
With all the new technology, and all the aliens bringing alien things to earth, a huge part of the rabbi’s job would be to figure out how Jewish law applied to these things. To say ‘It is not specifically mentioned in the Torah’ is to say ‘I am a moron who cannot do my job’
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Yep. Nobody was quite sure what the Vulcan salute should be. Nimoy thought of the blessing given at high holy day services.
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When Charlie Brown goes to Europe, he visits a cemetery filled with world war two veterans. The majority of the markers are crosses. But there are Jewish stars here and there.
Darn but I couldn’t find the scene on a ff through the series. I guess it was either really short and I missed it, or else something else I saw got melded with my memories of Cowboy Bebop and got added to my mental list of why Cowboy Bebop is really cool.
There is a great TV sitcom in UK about a northern English commedy club, in which the owner is in a wheelchair. The owners dissability is completely underplayed in the series.
What is Cowboy Bebop anyhow?
I have just spent foprever digging this up. I was quite certain that I remembered the scene you mentioned. However, it may exist nevertheless. However, there is a scene that is almost what was described.
DocCathode: My mistake. My knowledge of what is and is not kosher comes mostly from a few Jewish friends I had in college. And seeing as one of those was only Jewsih by way of his mother being Jewish, and was rasied much more in the traditions of his Christian father, his knowledge on the subject was also limited.
I just wanted to say “However” one more time. However.
Also, thanks everyone for the great replies.
Great Scott,
I must’ve missed it whilst ffing.