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ed up marrying David
Birney. When Rhoda
Morgenstern was Mary
Richards' neighbor, she was
obviously Jewish. (Her
mother's idea of vintage red
wine was a bottle of
Manischewitz Concord
Grape.) When Rhoda got her
own show and • married, she
and her obviously Jewish
family were not supposed to
be Jewish. Since their names
and speech patterns remain-
ed unchanged, the viewer
had to wonder when the
Family Morgenstern con-
verted and why.
Such portrayals do not
send Jewish youths out look-
ing for non-Jewish mates,
but they do reinforce the
belief that there is nothing
wrong with doing so.
Series intermarriage is
merely symptomatic of how
Jews generally are por-
trayed on television. Ever
since "The Goldbergs" left
the air in the early 1950s, a
series regular who is
supposed to be a Jew has
almost never engaged in
anything Jewish. Series
Jews, for example, eat
whatever is put in front of
them. No one ever says,
"Gee, that looks great, but
I'm kosher." If the character
is a male and a scene re-
quires wearing a skullcap,
the oversized kippah looks
more like a silk black teepee
than a religious symbol.
Enter attorney Ben Meyer,
Rosie O'Neill's supervisor in
the Los Angeles Public
Defender's Office. Played by
the actor Ron Rifkind, Mr.
Meyer looks, talks and acts
like everyone else. One
thing, however, is different
about him. Meyer wears a
kippah. Sometimes he dons a
knitted kippah, sometimes a
suede one. He always an-
chors it with a bobby pin. It's
not referred to and no one
makes a big deal about it.
It's just there. In fact, it
looks like it belongs there.
Presumably, if the series
lasts for a while, we will see
Mr. Meyer in a variety of
familiar situations. Sooner
or later, he will have to rush
home before the Sabbath
falls, or grab a bite to eat on
the run. Who knows? He
even might study a page of
the Steinsaltz Talmud dur-
ing an off-moment in the
P.D.'s office.
In NBC's new series "Law
and Order," New York
County District Attorney
Adam Schiff does not wear a
kippah to the office. We
know little about him other
than he is inferentially Jew-
ish. Yet the character has
the potential of being an-
other Ben Meyer. ❑

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