• 60 Minutes looks at Steven Spielberg’s new movie, Lincoln, which was apparently more than a decade in the making. Hope it’s good!

• Why sending The Big Bang Theory nebbish Howard Wolowitz might not have been the best idea.

• Jason Schwartzman likes clothing and Keith Moon.

• In today’s Homeland news, relive the glory of Mandy Patinkin’s Saul Berenson coming face to face with mini Darth Vader.

• The ladies of Community get NSFW—now will you finally premiere their show’s new season, NBC?

• Sarah Silverman and Lizz Winstead helpfully explain the difference between corporations and people.

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• The Times reveals New York City’s best bialys, pastrami, and rye.

• In what sounds like a worse version of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher are vacationing in Bali.

• The Big Bang Theory’s Mayim Bialik discusses walking the red carpet on Tisha B’Av.

• Spotted: Bar Refaeli and Shaun White in the stands watching swimmer Michael Phelps compete.

• According to Fran Lebowitz, “a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.”

• While on Andy Cohen’s late-night Bravo talk show, Joan Rivers says “even as a Jew” she wouldn’t wear Princess Diana’s wedding ring:

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• Hallelujah: Brooklyn’s Mile End Deli will start making their own Montreal-style bagels.

• Lanvin’s newest ad campaign model? 62-year old Tziporah Salamon.

• Look inside the home of horror writer R.L. Stine on the 20th anniversary of his Goosebumps series—and learn why zombies make terrible characters.

• Mayim Bialik gives Kveller.com, where she blogs regularly, a shout out while assuring us that the red carpet is as awkward as we think it would be.

• Team Schmidt: Max Greenfield, who says we might get rules to New Girl’s made-up drinking game True American, on his Emmy nomination:

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Asked about the news, Dunham gave possibly the best answer we could have asked for:

You know that song they sing at Passover, “Dayenu,” which is, “It would have been enough.” If God had just taken us out of the desert, it would have been enough. If He’d give us a cow, it would have been enough. But he did all this other stuff. I feel like with everything that happens, Dayenu.

Mayim Bialik is up for best supporting actress for her role as Amy Farrah Fowler on The Big Bang Theory, which was also nominated for best comedy series. Larry David is in the running for best actor in a comedy series for his similarly-nominated Curb Your Enthusiasm. Most exciting of all, however, is Max Greenfield’s nod for best actor in a comedy series, for his absurdly spot-on performance as Schmidt in New Girl.

Homeland, based on the Israel show Hatufim, cleaned up nicely with 9 total nominations—a record number for a new series—with star Claire Danes up for best actress in a drama.

Mazel tov to all the nominees!

(Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)

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Of the four geeks that star in The Big Bang Theory, Wolowitz is the only one without a doctorate, leading to teasing from his three best friends and other colleagues at Cal Tech. He also looks the weirdest: He wears bright-colored turtlenecks, sweater-vests, skinny jeans and belts with large, decorative buckles almost every day, and sports a Beatles-esque haircut. Plus, he drives a Vespa.



On top of all of that, Wolowitz considers himself a ladies’ man, and though the show is built around his friend Leonard (Johnny Galecki)—who’s also Jewish, though his faith isn’t mentioned often—who has a crush on and later dates their ditzy blonde neighbor Penny (Kaley Cuoco), Wolowitz is definitely the sex-obsessed one of the group. He once even got his penis stuck in a robotic hand that was meant to make extravehicular repairs, which he, uh, repurposed.



At first, it seemed like showrunner Chuck Lorre was trying to show what would happen if Alexander Portnoy was an engineer in the Cal Tech applied physics department. Mother issues? Check. Neuroses? Check. Weird and often disrespectful treatment of women? Check.
 


Of course, The Big Bang Theory is a network sitcom—a popular, but critically-reviled one, at that—so Wolowitz’s clumsy attempts to pick up women are tamer than those imagined by Philip Roth, though they have included doing magic tricks, ventriloquism, dressing up as a Goth, and giving compliments in Russian.
 


At the end of the fifth season, Wolowitz put his attempted player-like ways behind him for good, marrying microbiologist Bernadette (Melissa Rauch), his very own shiksa goddess (albeit a geeky one), after three seasons of dating. (Jewcy readers will of course know that Mayim Bialik has been appearing on the show since the end of Season 3 as Amy Farrah Fowler, a Ph.D. in neurobiology, who was first introduced as a love interest for Sheldon, Jim Parsons.) Wolowitz and Bernadette had bonded over complaining about their mothers, and he loved how angry he imagined his mom would be when she hears he has a Catholic girlfriend.



Then again, Wolowitz’s mother is basically always angry.



Mrs. Wolowitz is a running gag on The Big Bang Theory. Viewers never see her, even during her son’s wedding, but they hear her throaty, Brooklyn-accented voice (“How-waaaaaaahd”) from downstairs, whenever Wolowitz is in his room.

That’s right, Wolowitz still lives with his mother, though he’s in his early 30s. Because he lives with her, he is constantly helping her shave various body parts, like her back or mustache, and dealing with her many ailments—there seems to be a new one every episode. 

Wolowitz himself is no stranger to health neuroses, rounding out the character with yet another Jewish stereotype. He’s asthmatic, allergic to nuts, and has an irregular heartbeat, and was stricken with pink eye and canker sores over the course of the show’s five seasons.



If Big Bang creator Chuck Lorre wasn’t known as a proud Jew, Wolowitz might be considered an anti-Semitic character. Luckily Lorre and Simon Helberg make sure he has a lot of heart, and over time turned him from a one- or two-joke stereotype to a more likeable character, that I could even imagine hanging out with—even if he still dresses like an idiot.



Previously on Network Jews:

Paris Geller, Rory Gilmore’s high-intensity, over-achieving friend and foil on Gilmore Girls

Kyle Broflovski, South Park’s Resident Jew

Ziva David, the ass-kicking Mossad agent on CBS’s naval drama NCIS

Lahav Harkov is the Knesset reporter for The Jerusalem Post, where she also writes a column called The Weekly Schmooze about Jews in pop culture, so she has an excuse for incessantly reading celebrity gossip.

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