On the rare occasions it’s featured on TV, a Jewish wedding can be shorthanded down to two elements: the breaking of a glass and somebody shouting, “Mazel tov!” This spring, however, several shows raised the Semitic nuptials bar.
On Amazon’s Hunters, Holocaust survivors Murray (Saul Rubinek) and Mindy (Carol Kane) throw a wedding for their daughter. Sure, a glass was broken — under a chuppah, no less — and mazel tovs were declared, but actual Hebrew prayers are said! A full horah is danced! Al Pacino wears a kipah!
Hold my Manischewitz, said Netflix’s Unorthodox. Esther (Shira Haas) and Yakov’s (Amit Rahav) wedding, conducted within an insular Hasidic community in Brooklyn, adds layers of praying, brings in dancing beyond the horah and even takes viewers inside the yichud, a specific…