‘If a Jew can’t poke a little fun at her Jewish boyfriend about being Jewish, then what can any of us say any more?’ said one Jewish comedian
Trevor Noah, the new host of the Daily Show, caused a real shanda on Monday after tweets emerged from several years ago that contained eyebrow-raising jokes about Jewish people and women.
There are those who might claim this belies a latent antisemitism that it has only lately become fashionable to air, and at the very least, might be infectious ... I think it’s actually symptomatic of the opposite: that the generation currently ascendant in the entertainment industry, Jews and non-Jews alike, is the first to be truly, publicly comfortable with Jewishness.
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