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And that's the problem. A character who practices [[Informed Judaism]] will perform acts that most people can recognize as being Jewish, in contrast to the non-Jewish characters, but they don't show any more subtle signs of Judaism, even for an assimilated Jew, even the cultural aspect. Their Judaism becomes an [[Informed Attribute]]. The characters listed on this page are Jewish because the writers ''tell'' us, they don't show us, possibly because [[You Have to Have Jews]].
This is often a trope that pops up in a number of [[Western Animation]] [[Christmas Episode|Christmas Episodes]]; due to the [[Animation Age Ghetto|nature of the shows' audience]], the [[Executive Meddling|powers that be]] will want to place [[An Aesop]] in to show that the characters keep a [[Token Minority|diverse]] set of friends or peers. As a result, a character's Judaism is mentioned at some point in the episode, or perhaps a menorah will just be shown in the background, in order to keep up that diverse appearance. After all, [[Viewers
Of course, there is a place between [[Informed Judaism]] and [[Anvilicious]]. A character doesn't need to shout "Oy, how meshuggenah, a golem! I'm ferklempt!" to be non-informed Jewish, and likewise, not every character who has a Chanukkah Special is informed. It's more of a ''gestalt'' of the sense of the character. [[Yiddish As a Second Language]], for example, can be a clue...though, of course, pushing any element too far lands you back here.
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Contrast [[Ambiguously Jewish]], where a character displays stereotypically Jewish traits, but is never referred to as such; halfway between these two is reality. Compare [[Raised Catholic]], which shares some characteristics with this trope.
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* ''[[Square Pegs]]'' Muffy Tepperman, and Marshall Blechtman both mentioned being Jewish and having a Bat and Bar Mitzvah respectively.
* ''[[Even Stevens]]'' have an obligatory Chanuka special. It is mentioned that the mother is Jewish.
* Both Sarah and Laura Silverman on ''[[The Sarah Silverman Program]]'' are mentioned as being Jewish several times. [[N
* Ross from ''[[Friends]]'' cares enough about Judaism that he tries to teach his son about how great Chanukah is, but rarely ever shows any interest in the faith otherwise.
** His sister, Monica, is only referred to as Jewish twice: once, she mentions having had a Bat Mitzvah, and later, Chandler explicitly says to her, "You're Jewish!" when she laments that she did not choose to be a reverend for her career (she refers to it as a "technicality"). We never see her celebrate Chanukah (and we do see her celebrate Christmas) or make any other reference to her Judaism.
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** Also, Moishe the Oofnik, the grouch on the Israeli version of the show, ''Shalom Sesame'', is explicitly said to be Oscar's cousin.
** In recent years, the Bear family has taken up the Hanukkah ball, with Baby Bear showing Elmo how to spin a dreidel.
* This trope appears in -- of all things -- the 2008 [[Muppets]] [[Christmas Special]], ''[[
** Which is odd given the fact that the Electric Mayhem left to play a Bar Mitzvah at the beginning of ''Muppets In Space''. You would have thought that if it was ever going to come up, ''that'' would have been the time.
*** It's not all that odd considering Zoot is usually only awake enough to play his notes and he doesn't even remember his name or what instrument he plays in "The Muppet Movie."
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