Author: david campos

26 sep Rabbi Rafi Cohen, Masorti Olami, brand New York: “i believe just exactly what the film actually tries to do, it attempts to capture life that is jewish Manhattan.

Imagine Gen Xers in ny City — that’s what they certainly were attempting to do. These were wanting to be hip and cool. The rabbi and priest had been attempting to conduct on their own and provide just just what will be compelling to Manhattanites and urbanites. ”

Rabbi Joseph Ebony, Temple Emanuel, Denver: “If we had been an assistant rabbi, and also at the termination of a solution we believed to the cantor, ‘Hold on a moment, modification of plans … overlook the track you intend to sing, I’ve got one thing better, ’ I would personally be fired the following day. ”

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Norry: “One critique I’ve heard is the fact that the film appears to accept or tolerate interfaith relationships and casual intercourse relationships for rabbis. … You learn at the conclusion that she’s contemplating transforming to Judaism perhaps, kinda, sorta. However for the part that is most, right here’s a rabbi who’s involved profoundly, and intimately, with a lady who’s not Jewish, also to whom he’s maybe not married. My reaction to which has had for ages been, ‘Who do you believe our company is? That do you imagine rabbis are? ’ Or these priests — who do you believe they truly are? It is simply a portrayal that is honest one thing and about someone. Their failings are individual failings. The thing that is non-Jewish? Needless to say it is problematic. But that’s why it’s an excellent tale. ”

Rabbi Leah Berkowitz, Congregation Kol Ami, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania: “I liked the way they had both an awful Jewish date and a great Jewish date early when you look at the film to exhibit it wasn’t exactly that Jake didn’t like Jewish girls.