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It could be that …” he trails off and tosses the question to his co-directors. It could be that Buddhists step on glass. “Personally, I grew up in Forest Hills, Queens” - Parker’s home neighborhood - “and I’m Jewish, so maybe I’m just projecting.” However, he cautions that there are other possible interpretations: “I will say, because this is an alternate universe, we just don’t know. Parker is likely Jewish,” says co-director Rodney Rothman. “I happen to have a personal conviction, for many reasons, that Peter B. It turns out that the answer to the question “Is Jake Johnson’s Peter Parker Jewish?” is “Probably.” But it’s kind of up to the viewer.

Could it be that ol’ Petey is a member of the tribe? I had to know, so I consulted the film’s directors. He mentions tying the knot with his longtime flame Mary Jane Watson and the visual representation of their nuptials is his foot stomping a glass wrapped in cloth, which is a famed tradition in Jewish wedding ritual. Shortly after he first appears, he recaps his life story with the help of a montage. Parker, an aging and somewhat pathetic version of the character played by Jake Johnson. The movie depicts an array of Spider-Folk from a cornucopia of alternate dimensions, all teaming up on the Earth of a burgeoning new Spider-Man named Miles Morales. It only lasts a millisecond, but the new film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse drops a hint that at least one universe’s version of Peter Parker is a Jew. These days, it’s somewhat more acceptable to bestow some kind of Jewish identity on a character - just look at the Fantastic Four’s Thing wearing a kippah and a tallis at his wedding this year - but Spidey’s background is mostly unaddressed. Co-created by the Jewish Stan Lee and the Gentile Steve Ditko in the early 1960s, we never saw the wonderful wall-crawler heading to any churches, synagogues, mosques, or temples. Superman, Batman, Captain America - these were all figures invented by Jews, but the characters never evinced any particular spiritual beliefs, and certainly weren’t depicted as being Jewish. Still from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.įor most of the history of superhero fiction, religion was something of a taboo, especially when it came to Judaism.

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