Let’s be real. While the end of election season might mean respite from seemingly endless political ads and closure and all that, for people like us, who learned about democracy from watching The West Wing (no, we’re not talking about the Burmese government), it means all the drama and excitement from the past however-long-it’s-been is over, and it’s time to get back to reality. (It also means yet another year has gone by where we couldn’t vote for Jed Bartlett, the two-term president portrayed by Martin Sheen in The West Wing.)

Here to help you through election season-withdrawal—at least until the inevitable HBO movie comes out—are your favorite politically-minded TV Jews:

The West Wing’s Toby Ziegler, from “Sorkin’s Jews of Yore,” Sam Knowles:

The most liberal of Bartlet’s staffers, hyperarticulate, a master of high and low tongues, Toby is not one to suffer fools lightly. He’ll start a shouting match with just about anyone, including the president. And he is undoubtedly the most Jewish Jew to grace a Sorkin show—which is to say, he can identify not just Yom Kippur but also Erev Yom Kippur. In one episode, he even goes to temple!

The West Wing’s Josh Lyman, from “Sorkin’s Jews of Yore,” by Sam Knowles:

Josh is one of those Jews who comes to us by way of Connecticut. In one memorable episode, Toby says to Josh, “You know, the Ancient Hebrews had a word for Jews from Westport. They pronounced it Presbyterian.” Zing! Josh may lack Toby’s storied Jewish pedigree, but he has other things to boast of: the ear of the president; a legion of adoring followers who confess their lust on a tribute site called LemonLyman.com.

The Good Wife’s Eli Gold, from Abe Fried-Tanzer’s Network Jews:

It’s no coincidence that Gold has been compared to a real-life famous Jew with a similar profession. Rahm Emanuel, former Chief of Staff for President Obama, and brother of Ari Emanuel, the basis for Entourage’ssuper agent Ari Gold, has quite a reputation for winning at all costs, and Gold has managed to earn that same status in what could easily have been (and originally was) merely a guest-starring role. Gold may reinforce the stereotype of Jews wanting all the power, but he’s definitely someone you’d want on your side.

The Daily Show host Jon Stewart, from Jacob Silverman’s Culture Kvetch column:

As even the most casual viewer of The Daily Show can glean, Jon Stewart is capable of coupling wit and erudition to corner an interviewee or savage (a video clip of) a graceless politician—though he’s much more comfortable settling into the position of the bemused naif. Ignorance comes in numerous guises, and if one were to create a Donald Rumsfeld-like taxonomy, Stewart would be placed under “cultivated ignorance” (the known unknown). He’s done the reading, but he’s perpetually just a little bit in over his head, and he knows it; hell, he delights in it. That’s part of his charm.

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Some of our favorite ladies, including Lena Dunham, Tavi Gevinson, and Carrie Brownstein, took part in a Leslie Gore-approved sing-along PSA urging women to vote (Democrat) in the upcoming presidential election:

Previously: Tavi Gevinson Eats Bacon For The First Time With Carrie Brownstein
Carrie Brownstein Does Everything
The Big Jewcy: Carrie Brownstein, Musician/Writer

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Sarah Silverman released a new election video, and it’s filled with just as many f-bombs as you’d expect. The video is designed to shock, of course, but also to educate those affected by new voter ID laws. Silverman argues that the “super fucked up” laws, while claiming to prevent voter fraud, actually make it more difficult for members of certain demographics to vote.

Less vulgar than her last video, in which Silverman offered to scissor casino magnate Sheldon Adelson if he donated to Obama instead of Romney, this one urges voters in states affected by the new laws to find out what kind of identification they’ll need to vote, and make sure they have it on Election Day. The video is on a site called Let My People Vote, which is funded by the Jewish Council for Education and Research.

Watch Silverman’s latest foray into politics for yourself:

Previously: Sarah Silverman Wants to Scissor Sheldon Adelson for Obama
Update: 100 People Make ‘Schlep’ to Florida on Sarah Silverman’s Whim
Sarah Silverman Wants You to Schlep Your Fat Jewish Ass to Florida

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• Girls’ Zosia Mamet sits front row at the Marc Jacobs show during Fashion Week. Shoshanna would FREAK.

• Diane von Furstenberg got personal with Fern Mallis at 92Y, crediting her mother with developing her strength and character.

• Former SNL cast member Jenny Slate, also known as the voice of Marcel the Shell, is writing the script for a new Looney Tunes movie.

• Rashida Jones, our favorite person in the entire world, did a photo shoot for Flaunt.

• Two Nora Ephron books, Crazy Salad and Scribble, Scribble, are being released as a single-volume next month.

• Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly are facing off October 6 in a 90-minute presidential-style debate:

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Our favorite person ever, Natalie Portman, showed her political side over the weekend, speaking at the Nevada Women Vote 2012 Summit. The ‘Women for Obama’ event is part of the campaign’s outreach to female voters, and Portman’s presence certainly upped the profile of the Sunday summit.

According to VegasNews.com, “Portman said that the GOP spent too much time blocking Obama’s reforms and too little time fixing the country’s problems.” No word on baby Aleph’s political preferences though.

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A new website offers just the thing that’s been missing this election season: Yiddish curses for your political foes. “May you live to a hundred and twenty without Social Security or Medicare,” reads one of the entries on the Yiddish Curses for Republican Jews site. And they’re not messing around: according to the site’s Facebook page,

“The best Yiddish curses start out like a blessing and then snatch it all away. You should make a fortune…and spend it all on doctors. You should eat a feast of the most delicious foods imaginable…and every bite should make you sick. They are specific, which is why we’ve written a whole bunch of new ones for these very particular circumstances.”

Here are some of our favorite 2012-inspired additions:

“May your insurance company decide constipation is a pre-existing condition.”

“May you make a fortune, and lose it all in one of Sheldon Adelson’s casinos.”

“May your son be elected President, and may you have no idea what you did with his goddamn birth certificate.”

Yiddish Curses for Republican Jews [official site]

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