{"id":13055,"date":"2014-03-18T14:59:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T20:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=13055"},"modified":"2014-03-18T14:59:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T20:59:44","slug":"lena-dunham-talks-to-marc-maron-about-hasids-dating-jewish-guys-woody-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/lena-dunham-talks-to-marc-maron-about-hasids-dating-jewish-guys-woody-allen\/","title":{"rendered":"Lena Dunham talks to Marc Maron about Hasids, dating Jewish guys, Woody Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"

By JANA BANIN<\/p>\n

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (JTA) — Comedian Marc Maron is incredibly skilled at getting famous people to move past surface PR stuff and engage in organic, in-depth conversations. His \u201cfunny, brainy romp\u201d with Lena Dunham on\u00a0Monday\u2019s edition of his WTF podcast\u00a0is a perfect example of this. The creator and star of \u201cGirls\u201d chatted with Maron about being raised in the art world, feminism, Oberlin College (her alma mater) and criticism of \u201cGirls.\u201d
\nBut let\u2019s get to the important stuff. Here, the Jew-ish highlights.
\nOn growing up amongst observant Jews in Soho: \u201cI lived in a community that was only Hasidic people and artists,\u201d Dunham says, clarifying that the Hasids did not actually live in her neighborhood, but owned businesses there. \u201cI think I didn\u2019t understand that it was a religious preference \u2014 I thought it was some peoples\u2019 style. I thought, some people dress like punks, some people like to wear big hats and grow beards and tendrils from their heads. I don\u2019t think I understood it signified anything.\u201d
\nOn Woody Allen: \u201cIn the latest Woody Allen debate I am decidedly pro-Dylan Farrow and decidedly disgusted with Woody Allen\u2019s behavior. But for me, when people go through his work and comb through it for evidence of child molestation, that\u2019s not the fucking point,\u201d says Dunham, who has been very vocal on Twitter about the importance of victims of sexual abuse speaking out. \u201cI\u2019m not comfortable living in a world where art is how we convict people of crimes.\u201d
\nOn Philip Roth: Dunham thinks Roth is a better artistic hero than Woody Allen, despite his treatment of women (they\u2019re adults, and if they\u2019ve read his work they\u2019ve been warned, she tells Maron, which basically totally contradicts her \u201cyou can\u2019t judge an artist by their art\u201d point, but we\u2019ll let this one slide). That said, she does feel a bit conflicted about liking him so much. \u201cBeing a feminist obsessed with Philip Roth is not the most clean-cut position, but his life\u2019s work, his legacy, the whole thing is all super compelling to me.\u201d
\nOn dating guys like Philip Roth, i.e., \u201cenraged dick Jews\u201d: Dunham admits to dating \u201clike 15\u201d of them. \u201cThey were specialty de maison before my current relationship.\u201d
\nWe\u2019re glad (albeit not very surprised) to learn that\u00a0Jack Antonoff\u00a0does not fall into the enraged dick Jew category.<\/p>\n

\u2018Girls\u2019 star Jemima Kirke sometimes does Shabbat with \u2018super-Jew\u2019 husband<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jemima Kirke is just like us \u2014 if only we were cooler and more bohemian, occupied an entire Brooklyn brownstone and tattooed our Shabbat guests.
\nIn the March 10 issue of\u00a0New York Magazine, the \u201cGirls\u201d star gives us a peek into her life, which includes making art, being a mom, getting groped by her cute,\u00a0\u201chigh-end\u201d rehab-building\u00a0husband Michael Mosberg, and \u2014 yes \u2014 challah.
\n\u201cWe do Shabbat sometimes. Mike went to Yeshiva law school. He\u2019s super-Jew and super-corporate. That\u2019s why I was so attracted to him when I met him: the contradiction,\u201d says the actress, whose mother is of Israeli and Iraqi descent.
\nThe next shot features Mosberg in a yarmulke, and in the one after that Kirke is administering that after-dinner tattoo, which is obviously the hipster version of Birkat Hamazon.<\/p>\n

Beyonc\u00e9 to play Israel?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The upcoming Israeli summer might just be getting even hotter.
\nAccording to a Sunday report on Israel\u2019s Channel 2 news, Beyonc\u00e9 will be stopping over for a gig at Tel Aviv\u2019s Yarkon Park on June 15.
\nThe thing is, the date does not appear on\u00a0Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s website. Plus, as Israeli fans may remember, a\u00a02009\u00a0rumor that the pop star would visit never panned out.
\nIf this thing really happens, Mrs. Carter will join a long list of big-name performers to visit Israel this summer, including Lady Gaga, The Rolling Stones, Neil Young and Justin Timberlake.
\n\u2028Seth Rogen dishes on weed-smoking celebs<\/strong><\/p>\n

We just can\u2019t stop talking about\u00a0Seth Rogen\u00a0lately! Sorry if you\u2019ve had enough, but this clip from Bravo\u2019s \u201cWatch What Happens Live\u201d is just too Jew-packed to resist.
\nLast week the show\u2019s host\u00a0Andy Cohen\u00a0got Rogen to play a round of \u201cSpill the Herbal Tea,\u201d in which the writer, actor and\u00a0Alzheimer\u2019s advocate\u00a0was asked to admit which celebs he\u2019d \u201cblazed up with.\u201d\u00a0Check out the\u00a0startling\u00a0results.
\nJames Franco: \u201cIt\u2019s depressing for me to say but I\u2019ve never smoked weed with James Franco, because he doesn\u2019t smoke weed!\u201d
\nPaul Rudd: Yes, lots of times.
\nSarah Silverman: Ditto.
\nSnoop Dogg: Naturally.
\nBarbra Streisand: \u201cNo, but we talked a lot about it a lot.\u201d That said, Rogen did reveal that the diva has smoked with Peter Sellers.
\nJonah Hill: Yep.
\nWillie Nelson: No, but believe it or not, Cohen has. Mazel!
\nBill Maher: Jay Leno is like Israel
\nJay Leno\u2019s induction to the TV Hall of Fame on Tuesday was preceded by a spirited and vaguely controversial introduction from Bill Maher, who compared the former \u201cTonight Show\u201d host to a small Middle Eastern country some of you may have heard of.
\n\u201cJay reminds me a little of Israel,\u201d Maher said of Leno. \u201cHe isn\u2019t perfect, but he\u2019s held to standard I don\u2019t think anybody in the world is expected to live up to but him.\u201d
\nMaher also addressed the accusations that Leno had \u201cstolen\u201d Conan O\u2019Brien\u2019s dream by taking back the reins of the \u201cTonight Show\u201d from O\u2019Brien after a ratings drop. Despite the obvious Middle East conflict\/Late Night War parallel, the host of HBO\u2019s \u201cReal Time\u201d opted for a different analogy on this topic, pointing out that this was like saying Tom Cruise had robbed Maher of the lead role in \u201cTop Gun.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nJ-Tweet of the Week: Roseanne Barr might move to Israel<\/strong><\/p>\n

Comedian Roseanne Barr revealed via Twitter on Wednesday she is interested in making aliyah.
\nHere\u2019s what went down: Barr, who currently lives on a macadamia nut farm in Hawaii with her fourth non-Jewish husband, responded to a\u00a0Times of Israel story\u00a0about the aliyah organization Nefesh B\u2019Nefesh with this tweet: \u201caliyah 2014\u201d
\nNext, Nefesh B\u2019Nefesh chimed in. \u201c@TheRealRoseanne Hey Roseanne, are you interested in making Aliyah? We can help!\u201d
\nShe responded: \u201cyes-I am. thank u-dm me\u201d
\nThen, according to\u00a0The Times of Israel, the two parties actually did chat via direct message.
\nThe star of the hit sitcom \u201cRoseanne\u201d and 2012 presidential nominee was raised by Jewish parents in Salt Lake City. While she was influenced by her Orthodox Jewish grandmother, her parents kept their religion secret from neighbors and had connections to the Mormon church. For more details on her truly fascinating, stranger-than-fiction life (alleged incest, brain injury, adoption, and more) check out Barr\u2019s\u00a0autobiography.
\nIt has just been reported that Barr\u00a0is being sued by the parents of George Zimmerman for tweeting their address, which could possibly help to put this whole aliyah thing into perspective.<\/p>\n

Meet the new (Jewish) Bachelorette<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Bachelor\u201d came to a disappointing close Monday, with leading man Juan Pablo Galavis not proposing. Luckily, something good did come out of the show\u2019s 18th\u00a0season: The selection of the next \u201cBachelorette.\u201d
\nAndi Dorfman, a 26-year-old Jewish assistant district attorney from Atlanta, won hearts and headlines when she eliminated herself from the show after having it out with Juan Pablo, who, it seems, is a tad self-absorbed.
\n\u201cI\u2019ve never been with anyone who\u2019s asked me so little about myself,\u201d Dorfman said of the man who she pointed out didn\u2019t even know what religion she practices.
\nAndi wasn\u2019t the only one leery of Juan Pablo \u2014 her dad Hy didn\u2019t love him, either. He expressed doubts on air, and online.
\nWe have confidence Andi will find love \u2013 and someone Hy approves of \u2013 on what will be the 10th\u00a0season of \u201cThe Bachelorette.\u201d In fact, we can hear the glass breaking already.<\/p>\n

\u2028For the latest\u00a0Jewish\u00a0celebrity\u00a0news, visit JTA’s\u00a06\u00a0Degrees (No\u00a0Bacon) blog.<\/em><\/p>\n

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