Sure, those of us who celebrate Hanukkah get eight crazy nights of lighting the menorah, presents and parental guilt, but you know what we don't get? Literally hundreds of songs, television specials, or commercials about our December (sometimes November) holiday. Also, Christmas trees.
We're all for Santa Claus and Christmas miracles, but sometimes Jewish kids just want to feel the pop culture love too. Luckily, we've been given that gift on a few occasions. Put on your yarmulkes -- it's time to celebrate the eight best times Maccabees got a little love on TV.
1. The O.C.
All hail the greatest holiday of all: Chrismukkah! For four glorious seasons, we swooned over Seth Ezekiel Cohen's inventive day and the mad joy with which he celebrated it. Seth and his best friend/adopted brother Ryan Atwood never had to choose between celebrating Christmas or Hanukkah, and Jesus and Moses were always on their side to save them from...
We're all for Santa Claus and Christmas miracles, but sometimes Jewish kids just want to feel the pop culture love too. Luckily, we've been given that gift on a few occasions. Put on your yarmulkes -- it's time to celebrate the eight best times Maccabees got a little love on TV.
1. The O.C.
All hail the greatest holiday of all: Chrismukkah! For four glorious seasons, we swooned over Seth Ezekiel Cohen's inventive day and the mad joy with which he celebrated it. Seth and his best friend/adopted brother Ryan Atwood never had to choose between celebrating Christmas or Hanukkah, and Jesus and Moses were always on their side to save them from...
- 12/16/2014
- Entertainment Tonight
Duke University is offering a course based on "The Oc." Titled "California Here We Come," the class is about the brand of self-aware American pop culture embodied by the classic Fox teen drama.
Josh Schwartz, the creator of "The Oc" and "Gossip Girl," tweeted a copy of the course description.
This is a class taught at Duke!Think I could pass.#durhamnchereicome twitter.com/JoshSchwartz76…
— Josh Schwartz (@JoshSchwartz76) November 8, 2012
Check out the full course description below:
“California Here We Come” The O.C. & Self-Aware Culture of 21st Century America
“Everybody is hyper self-aware. We live in a post-everything universe.” - Josh Schwartz, executive producer of The O.C. and Gossip Girl
If Josh Schwartz is correct in saying that we live in a post-everything universe, a post-postmodern world, how do you innovate? You do it with a nerdy, comic book reading, plastic horse loving, half-Jewish sailor with a keen taste in music named Seth Ezekiel Cohen.
Josh Schwartz, the creator of "The Oc" and "Gossip Girl," tweeted a copy of the course description.
This is a class taught at Duke!Think I could pass.#durhamnchereicome twitter.com/JoshSchwartz76…
— Josh Schwartz (@JoshSchwartz76) November 8, 2012
Check out the full course description below:
“California Here We Come” The O.C. & Self-Aware Culture of 21st Century America
“Everybody is hyper self-aware. We live in a post-everything universe.” - Josh Schwartz, executive producer of The O.C. and Gossip Girl
If Josh Schwartz is correct in saying that we live in a post-everything universe, a post-postmodern world, how do you innovate? You do it with a nerdy, comic book reading, plastic horse loving, half-Jewish sailor with a keen taste in music named Seth Ezekiel Cohen.
- 11/8/2012
- by Chris Harnick
- Huffington Post
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