The Attractive Young Rabbi
The Attractive Young Rabbi

The Attractive Young Rabbi

  • Radio comedy drama
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 1999 - 2002
  • 16 episodes (3 series)

Culture-clash comedy set between a traditional and a new, more modern Jewish synagogue.

Press clippings

Paul Mendelson's canny, gentle comedy, about a woman up against religious tradition, was first heard on Radio 4 in the Nineties. It wears well. It could, almost, be about a woman vicar in a traditional parish or a nun who knows (as one or two sisters I have met know) that one of these days there won't be enough men to be priests. Tracy-Ann Oberman plays the new rabbi ministering to a Reform Jewish congregation who gets to know and like (and the liking is mutual) the orthodox rabbi and his wife in the neighbouring synagogue. First episode of four.

Gillian Reynolds, The Telegraph, 2nd September 2010

Share this page