Jewish television characters have historically been outliers. I decided to revisit a few episodes to see if it held up after 20 years-and, more specifically, to confirm that the show was as Jewish as I remembered it being.Īs a Jewish girl growing up in the ‘90s, I didn’t get to see a lot of representation of Jewish women on television. The sitcom aired on CBS from 1993 to 1999, and HBO Max began streaming the series in April 2021. My hair is flat, but otherwise I could be the teenage version of the fictional Fran Fine (Fran Drescher) of The Nanny, a New York–raised Reform Jew with a penchant for glittery clothing and funky accessories, who could regularly be found sitting atop a plastic-slipcovered couch in Queens. I’m wearing a black t-shirt with the word “Sagittarius” emblazoned across it in red glitter, a black choker bedazzled with rhinestones, and a pair of cat-eye glasses. I’m sitting on a brocade sofa covered with a clear vinyl couch protector at a family friend’s house in East Elmhurst, Queens. Recently, I came across a photo of myself as a teenager in the late ’90s. Fran Drescher as Fran Fine in The Nanny (Photo credit: CBS)
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