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A show about intermarriage, Mad About You never once mentioned religion. It’s a monument to the comedic dangers of ethnic cleansing.

by
Liel Leibovitz
September 21, 2011
(Collage: Tablet Magazine; TV photo: Full-Time Lover/Flickr; Mad About You still: NBC/Getty Images)
(Collage: Tablet Magazine; TV photo: Full-Time Lover/Flickr; Mad About You still: NBC/Getty Images)

Liel Leibovitz is editor-at-large for Tablet Magazine and the host of its weekly podcast Rootless and its daily Talmud podcast Take One.

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