There’s an old saying in the Jewish community, that you can have two Jews and three opinions. We’re not known for quietly disagreeing and as a result many of us have found ourselves loudly disagreeing over the latest incidence of “Jewface”.
For the blissfully unaware, Jewface is when a non-Jewish actor is accused of exaggerating “Jewish” characteristics to play a Jewish character. It was something identified by the American comedian Sarah Silverman, as well as the author David Baddiel. The most recent iteration of this feisty debate is whether Bradley Cooper, who is starring in a new biopic about the Jewish conductor Leonard Bernstein, should be allowed to wear a fake nose to closer resemble the musical legend.
