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Apple TV’s ‘Your Friends & Neighbors’ just gave us a stunningly authentic Passover episode

JL;DR SUMMARY Apple TV's "Your Friends & Neighbors" has delivered a memorable episode featuring a Passover seder, blending accuracy with cultural nuance. 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 CultureJewish MediaPassoverJewish RepresentationSederApple TvHaggadahJudaism On ScreenJon HammShmura Matzah

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Westchester County, New York, United States
"Perhaps I should have known: The show is based (and filmed) in Westchester County, just north of New York City, where I work as a rabbi and where many secular families include Jews."
New York City, New York, United States
"Perhaps I should have known: The show is based (and filmed) in Westchester County, just north of New York City, where I work as a rabbi and where many secular families include Jews."

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