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Not only that: who plays the rabbi, standing at the very pulpit where I had stood for eight years in the late 1980s to mid 1990s?Īmy’s fellow comedian Dave Attell, whose late father was the president of the synagogue and whose mother makes a cameo in the funeral scene as well.Īs for Amy’s character, Beth - she is the Haggadah’s simple child.Įven as Judaism is foreign to Beth, it’s constantly present. Imagine, then, my surprise when, early on in the series, Amy’s mother dies, and the funeral service is held in the synagogue where the Schumer family had spent many good years. They are a wonderful family, and the synagogue was central to their lives. The Schumers lived down the street from me. I was friendly with her mother, who is committed to Jewish education and works as a Jewish educator. I prepared her for her bat mitzvah ceremony. I was Amy’s rabbi at her childhood synagogue on Long Island. I have followed her comedic career for many years - actually, since she was a child. Let me present my Amy Schumer fan boy cred. I have been watching Amy’s new Hulu series, “Life & Beth.” Amy plays Beth, a millennial woman, complete with all the angst this entails. Is comedian Amy Schumer auditioning for the role of the simple kid?

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There is the one who doesn’t even know how to ask the question. There is the simple one, who asks: “What is this?” And finally… There is the wicked or rebellious or quarrelsome one, who asks: “What does this observance mean to you?” - the operative pronoun being “you,” and not “us.” There is the wise one, who wants to know all the rules of the observance. They have a starring role in the Passover Haggadah - four children with four different approaches to the festival. If you are Jewish, and even minimally Passover literate, you know those kids. You cannot have a seder without the four children.

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