(Jewish Group) What Yiddish (and the Forward) are doing in the new 'Spider-Man'
Everytime Spider-Man flirts with the fickle multiverse he encounters a couple of constants. The first is that a version of Spider-Man exists in every reality. The second is that Jews do too. Even, it would seem, the Jews who write for this very Jewish paper.
In “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” Jews are everywhere. As David Bashevkin noted in a nifty Twitter thread, Yeshiva University looms large in the skyline and, at Peter Parker’s fictional Midtown High, a student wearing a kippah can be spotted welcoming the newly-unmasked Spider-Man back to class.
This, along with some Hanukkah decorations I spotted at MJ’s doughnut shop (the very real Peter Pan Donuts in Greenpoint), make for a New York City that feels true to life, just as the absence of NPC Hasidim on Shabbat on the Spider-Man video game, are a knowing nod to the city’s Jewish makeup.
And while nothing can quite match the naches of learning, as we did in “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” that one universe’s iteration of Peter Parker smashed a glass at his wedding, the new film’s extensive multimedia hits closer to home.
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I am dying to see this, but since I don't really want to die to see it, I will wait...
