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A Jewish snowman movie would have made a lot more sense than Netflix's 'Hot Frosty'

JL;DR SUMMARY Mira Fox critiques the Netflix film "Hot Frosty," a Hallmark-style Christmas movie featuring a magically animated snowman, Jack, who is more reminiscent of a golem than a traditional Frosty. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish CultureGolemNetflixHanukkahFilm CritiqueMagicMythologyChristmas MovieFrostyLore

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United States
"The first Christmas movie of the season has landed on Netflix, just in time for, uh, Thanksgiving."
Hawaii, United States
"while the hot snowman just goes on vacation to Hawaii once hes unmeltable."
Czechia
"after all, its happened before, in ancient Prague."
Israel
"forward has removed its paywall and invested additional resources to report on the ground from Israel and around the U.S."

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