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Because of the schedule restrictions
and other religious differences, obser-
vant Jews haven't always been accorded
the same treatment, particularly from
nonobservant Jews.
"I sometimes had difficulty with
Jewish producers who resented [my reli-
g ious practices]," Wincelberg says.
'Deanna with gentile producers was a
pleasure."
Hollywood Jews who have discov-
ered Orthodoxy sometimes struggle
with the subject matter they're expected
to handle.
Writer JeffSchechter once consulted
his rabbi before adding curse words to
his script. Jordan Rush remembers with
horror the first screening of a film he'd
written. In the production process, his
classy psychological thriller had been
injected with gratuitous sex and vio-
lence.
Steinberg was able to serve as an

informal religious expert on An
American Tail; it was he who protested
that Papa wouldn't play his fiddle on
Rosh Hashanah.
And Sacks' knowledge of Jewish
thought helped him land his current
position on "Third Rock From the
Sun," when the show's creators were
wowed by his theological take on their
premise.
Sacks is quick to thank Judaism for
much of his creative success. "Torah is
so packed with insights about what it
means to be human that when you tap
into that reservoir, you can't help but
draw from it for everything, from con-
structing stories to crossing the street."
Torah and the mitzvot also provide a
counterbalance to the daily craziness or
Hollywood life. The Hollywood
Orthodox agree that, amid all the arro-
gance and attitude, Jewish observance is
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fellow MTV intern suggested that
Disney Television Animation, is a
Cohen submit some ideas to
Harvard graduate, Yiddish studies
"Beavis and Butt-head" in 1994.
maven and Orthodox Jew who got
Though Cohen says his first
his big break writing for ... "Beavis
attempts "sucked," he eventually
and Butt-head."
won over the head writer with
You'd never guess that a guy
episodes like "Dumbasses,
who davens three times a day
Anonymous."
could create hilarious scenarios
When a reporter asked Cohen
about two
horny,
teenage
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Etan Cohen:
and things
His first attempts
that "suck."
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Cohen, the
youngest per-
son ever to write for the MTV cult
how he reconciled being Orthodox
favorite, faxed in his first produced
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episode, "Womyn," while studying
pied with sex and bodily functions,
at a yeshiva in Israel.
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and Butt-head' writers had this
was doing to my rebeeim," he says,
chip on our shoulder. Many people
"but I don't think they ever saw
feel the show was just bathroom
the show."
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So how did a Harvard
something a little higher — a paro-
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