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He made Moon Knight Jewish. He doesn’t care if Disney+ has other ideas.

JL;DR SUMMARY Moon Knight, a Marvel Comics character with a complex identity, has a layered backstory involving his Jewish heritage. 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 RepresentationDisney+KabbalahIdentity CrisisMarvel ComicsCultural AdaptationMoon KnightMarc SpectorAlan Zelenetz

Places mentioned

Teaneck, New Jersey, United States
"Over Zoom from his home in Teaneck, N.J., Zelenetz, now working on a translation of the Book of Hosea, says that the two-issue story, in which Elias Spector dies and is revived using a golem-like incantation, came from a few places."
Brooklyn, New York, United States
"In the 1980s, Zelenetz stepped down from his position at Solomon Schechter High School in Brooklyn."
Chicago, Illinois, United States
"He was born a poor Orthodox kid to parents who fled Czechoslovakia just after Hitlers gooseteppers moved in. Spector was ashamed of his father, a celebrated Kabbalist who passively endured the brutal antisemitism of their Chicago neighborhood."

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