Early tweets regarding Lea Michele's Funny Girl debut

[genbu_no_miko24]

Audience at Lea Michele’s ‘Funny Girl’ debut gasped and laughed when she delivered the line “I haven’t read many books.”

🔗: https://t.co/wqspu3CdIp pic.twitter.com/TUpXxbWpNF
- Pop Crave (@PopCrave) September 7, 2022

DWD 🤝🏻 Funny Girl pic.twitter.com/AWl4GM11p6
- Marissa Longo (@missabowbissa) September 6, 2022
It's overwhelmingly positive lol

Comments

[peddlestools]

Can't stand this shiksa playing a Jewish character again

[automaticpeople]

Is this sarcasm, because she is actually Jewish?

[peddlestools]

Wait seriously I thought this was a Rachel brosnahan situation

[automaticpeople]

Her full name is Lea Michele Sarfati. Her dad is Jewish.

[green_monsterx]

Her father is Jewish and her mother is not. She was raised catholic

[peddlestools]

Okay that's why I thought she wasn't Jewish. I looked it up and it said she was catholic

[ionadelfina]

I think sometimes practicing jews call non-practicing jews that. That's what I read anyway.

[winx]

Shiksa is a derogatory term to refer to a gentile woman and frankly not appropriate to refer to Lea Michelle. It’s a shitty term anyway.

[cassismagic]

[winx]

I’ve never heard it used endearingly before but I’m glad to hear the useage is changing, my Ma’s family is Very Mizrahi, like my savta is an old school Syrian Jew so tbh I’ve only ever heard it in a mocking context but that’s cool that it’s less of a loaded term now.
Shabbos shiksa has a much nicer alliteration to it lmao

[cassismagic]

[guitarstrings]

Her father is part Sephardic Jew. But she was raised Catholic, so a percent of ethnic Jew but not active/practicing at all

[automaticpeople]

So someone has to be practicing to play a Jewish character because I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say that here?

[guitarstrings]

Definitely not what I meant! It was more background info

I'm not Jewish in any way, shape, or form so I don't know how that's taken/accepted with anyone in the culture/faith/etc.

[winx]

Depending on who you ask you’re gonna get a ton of different answers, sometimes from the same Jew even, lmao.
Fwiw, I don’t have an issue with Lea playing Jewish because she is ethnically Jewish through her dad and she has, for lack of a better term, stereotypically Jewish/Levantine features. She’s received a ton of antisemitic abuse for her looks before so it’s not like she’s passed through the world passing as a gentile, even if halachically you’re going to get other Jews saying she doesn’t actually qualify as Jewish (patrilineal, etc etc).
Compare and contrast with Bradley cooper wearing a fake nose to play Leonard Bernstein which,,,,,,, yikes.

[evett]

she's italian and greek so her "stereotypical features" are also well-known traits to those cultures and more likely where she gets her looks from