Marrying a Jew

      Another annoying Shabbos table discussion with misguided men trying to tell me how they think that shiksas are so much nicer than Jewish girls . I hate these discussions because the same could be said of gentile men being nicer to Jewish girls than Jewish men . I hate this kind of talk because its counter productive. The idea not to date a goy has NOTHING to do with how nice or not nice a goy is . It has to do with living a Jewish life. If you want to live  an observant Jewish life its best to marry someone Jewish.  End of story. 

This is 40

     I recently saw the movie This is 40. It was yet another movie with a Jewish husband and his shiksa wife. Paul Rudd was the husband and Leslie Mann was the wife. It was a Judd Apatow film and Leslie Mann is his wife in real life. Judd is Jewish, Leslie man is not. My thought is that religion was a non-issue to Apatow when he married Mann, and it wasn't because he was trying not to marry a Jewish woman. That said , Jewish women are often berated for being whiny and annoying. Well, Leslie Mann is both. Often what a Jewish man says he dislikes in a Jewish woman he finds in a gentile woman. I guess he would prefer a gentile woman to wine than a Jewish one. At least with  the show Will and Grace , another gentile male / Jewish woman pairing you knew that they would never marry. Will was going to stay gay.
     The plot of the movie was okay - couple turns 40 and feel old, but the Jewish husband /gentile wife cliche is tired or at least I am tired of it.