The 3/11/12 presentation @ KAMII (in Chicago) will be recorded and filmed, and I will post text at that time too.

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Zay gezunt,
Jan

I found it curious that in the first time Juliette ventures out by herself in Cairo, she is acosted by a mob of muslim males who obviously wanted sex from her and she literally had to run into a shop to escape, where an older gentleman then simply shooed them off. No harm no foul I guess. Then she continues to wander around oblivious as Arab women in Burquas glare and point at her in her summer dress, bare legs, and uncovered head, eventually ending up in Tariqs all male coffee shop where everyone again glares and frowns and she is again clueless util she is told what the problem is, and that Arab women go other places and do other things. (than sitting around smoking hooka’s and drinking coffee I guess) Later, she wanders into a Mosque during prayers and stands staring at the man leading the prayers, and no one reacts or asks her to move. My issue is we all know what would happen in the REAL Muslim / Arab world if a western female were to act this stupid and ignorantly.

So Ms. Nadda has issues with how Israelies may possibly stop a bus at an imaginary checkpoint, but no issues with a woman almost being attacked and possibly raped, or the chauvinist Arab culture that makes women second class citizens? Like I said, she seems to have a romanticized view of her “culture” (seeing as how her parents left and she was born and raised in Canada) which is not based on the harsh reality the world knows.

That’s my 2 cents worth.

Please keep your comments coming. I try to be “a good Jewish girl” who “always does her homework,” so it’s great to have intelligent feedback

Not playing a Jewish character very often is not a condition reserved for Johansson, though (or Parker). While annoying Jewish comedians often play explicit Jews (typically though their own designs and no one else’s, i.e. Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen), most attractive young Jewish actors, of which there is a plentiful supply especially these days, never or almost never play explicit Jews (i.e. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Anton Yelchin, Mila Kunis, Natalie Portman, Logan Lerman, Andrew Garfield, Paul Rudd… and I haven’t even gotten to the “half Jewish” ones yet…).

But what is this thing some people have about who Woody Allen casts in his movies? Who cares? Woody Allen makes one movie a year, at best. That leaves hundreds of others. Why would anyone want a Jewish woman to be subjected to the fate of playing Woody’s love interest? Isn’t it better that Chris Columbus casts a lot of Jews in his movie (and he does), for example, than Allen?