I love that my favorite show's season premiere featured Orthodox Jew, Mayim Bialik, star of Blossom! the early 90's TV hit. Rumor has it that while the show's hosts knew (and complied with) the fact that she doesn't wear pants for religious reasons, that was not explained quite as well as it could be on the show....or at all.
Its too bad that there was a missed opportunity to educate, because, well, frankly, so many skirts-only-wearing Big Jews need fashion help! It would've been nice to see Clinton and Stacy, as well as Mayim, reach out to them and give some fashion advice. See Mayim talk about her new style, her Big Jew-ness and other things, here:
As I was walking to shul on Saturday morning, I was thinking about What Not To Wear and wondering....perhaps they want to do a JTS rabbis special??? This would look a little different than their regular show, but they could come in and spruce up the school notoriously known for producing unkempt clergy? (ok, in all honesty, placing the blame squarely on JTS's shoulders might not be fair - it might be, gasp!, our own faults that we spend more time studying the Gemara than the pages of fashion magazines). But you know what? This is one hot religious Jew - if she can do it, so can we. Think sleeveless is too much for the pulpit?
So? What do you think, Stacy and Clinton? You up for a challenge?
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