History Main / JewishMother

** On the flipside, [[TheFundamentalist a Christian mother]] is appalled to discover her Jewish friend has a gay son. "How can you possibly accept him?" Her friend responds, "What do you mean? They're both doctors, what's there to complain about?" An alternative punchline is: "Oh, so ''NOW'' you want me to complain?"

* The story of the wedding at Cana ([[https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=John+2:1%E2%80%932:11&version=nrsv John 2:1-11]]) in which Mary informs Jesus that the party has run out of wine. Jesus's response is, essentially, "What do you want me to do about it?" Mary ignores him and tells the servants to, "Do what he tells you." Basically Jesus's first miracle occurs because of this trope which even the ''Son of God himself'' won't go against.

* A Jewish mother was taking a walk with her children when she came across an acquaintance. "Such cute children you have. How old are they?" "The doctor is two and the lawyer is five."
* A Jewish mother takes her son to the beach, but he goes out too far in the ocean. She asks the lifeguard to save him (or she asks God to save him), and he is brought back to safety, but then she says to the lifeguard (or God), "He had a hat."

* A Jewish grandmother was taking a walk with her grandchildren when she came across an acquaintance. "Such cute grandchildren you have. How old are they?" "The doctor is two and the lawyer is five."
* A Jewish grandmother takes her grandson to the beach, but her son goes out too far in the ocean. She asks the lifeguard to save him (or she asks God to save him), and he is brought back to safety, but then she says to the lifeguard (or God), "He had a hat."

** in the continuation tale ''Fanfic/GapYearAdventures'', Rivka has graduated as a [[BadassIsraeli an Assassin who is frighted of almost nothing]]. however, the one thing that terrifies her is the matchmaker Yenta Goldberg, a friend of her mother's who has taken on a ''difficult'' job. Their RoadTrip across [[UsefulNotes/{{Africa}} Howondaland]] has the Yenta popping up everywhere to remind Rivka she is of marriagable age and single, and do you want your mother to die of sorrow, schmoopie? [[note]]Rivka is pursued, in Earth terms, from her home in a place like Tel Aviv all the way across an entire continent to its version of [[UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica Cape Town]].[[/note]]

--->'''Gabriel:''' Mary, you carry in your womb the Son of God,
who will grow up to become
King of the Jews.

** Despite how Fran complains about how overbearing her mother is, she can some times show similar traits herself when it comes to the Sheffield children. It is difficult for her to let Grace go on a play date by herself for the first time, and she also tries to use guilt-trip on Maggie on occasions. Eventually she becomes their Jewish step-mother.

* Walburga Black from ''Fanfic/TheBlackSheepDogSeries'' looks suspiciously like one, in spite of not being Jewish. Her eldest son running away was a source of complains for her, but it gets cranked UpToEleven when she learns he's living in a Muggle, low-class neighbourhood. Cue Walburga rearranging the flat, insisting for Sirius to attend family dinners, replacing his clothes and freaking over his possibly dating muggle women since he ought to marry a proper pureblood lady.

* In ''Series/TheGoldbergs'', the Goldberg family of Philadelphia are AmbiguouslyJewish - the name fits, the younger son fits the stereotype of being nerdy and bad at sports, the daughter has a sense of spoilt entitlement, but matters of religion are not really hinted at.[[note]]The family take to Chinese food, pork and seafood and all, like ducks to water[[/note]] But mother Beverley Goldberg is a terrifying MamaBear who fits the Jewish Mother persona to a tee. In fact she takes it UpToEleven.

** Despite how Fran complains about how overbearing her mother is, she can some times show similar traits herself when it comes to the Sheffield children. It is difficult for her to let Grace go on a play date by herself for the first time, and she also tries to use guilt-trip on Maggie on occasions.

* Snot's mom in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' appears to be this in her appearance in "Moon Over Isla Island", but when Steve and Snot actually talk about her in other episodes it's reveiled that she's actually an alcoholic slut who steals money from her son.

* Many interpretations of Demeter turn her into this. Perhaps most notably in ''Percy Jackson and the Olympians''.
-->You could've married the god of doctors or the god of lawyers, but noooo. You ''had'' to eat the pomegranate.

* Constance Temple from the ''Literature/{{GONE}}'' series is a "non-observant Jew".

* Gender-inverted in ''Film/IndependenceDay'' with David's father.

* Mother Gothel from ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' has an air of this trope to herself. However, the cut verse of "[[VillainSong Mother Knows Best]]" is basically a tribute to Jewish mothers is fiction.

* Claire's mother (not the eponymous mother) in ''My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding''

* Aase, mother of ''Theatre/PeerGynt''. Constantly dissatisfied with her son, and for good reason, and complaining that he didn`t marry the wealthy girl who actually wanted him. Subverted because she is a Norwegian christian, not a jew, but her attitude fits the trope.

Usually, she'll speak with a [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage Yiddish]] accent (worth noting that Jews refer to Yiddish as ''mammeloshen'', literally "mother's tongue") and will often be heard boasting about her offspring ("my son, the doctor..."), when she isn't nagging them. The only option in life for her children is college and (for the girls) marrying a {{nice Jewish boy}} (often parsed even more with "A nice Ashkenazic boy" or "A nice Ashkenazic doctor" or "A nice Ashkenazic doctor with an apartment in New York and plenty of frequent flier miles to visit your mother whom you never ''[[FunetikAksent cawl]]'' anymore"). Likewise, a Jewish son is expected to bring home a nice Jewish girl. No matter how nice, however, this girl will not be good enough. Heaven forbid he marries a ShiksaGoddess. And above all, [[IWantGrandkids she'll want grandkids]].

* In ''Film/LaVeriteSiJeMens'', a comedy set in the French Sephardic Jewish community, a couple is in bed late at night when they hear the doorbell ring. "Who could show up at such an hour?" the husband asks. "Your mother?" the wife suggests. "No," the husband retorts, "my mother has her own set of keys!"

* In ''La Vérité si je mens'', a comedy set in the French Sephardic Jewish community, a couple is in bed late at night when they hear the doorbell ring. "Who could show up at such an hour?" the husband asks. "Your mother?" the wife suggests. "No," the husband retorts, "my mother has her own set of keys!"

* Jewish comedienne Judy Gold is also a lesbian with two children. She feels sorry for them for having two Jewish mothers.
* Greco-Canadian comedian Angelo Tsarouchas protests against the stereotype...by claiming Greek mothers are ''worse''.

** The actor who played him in the movie, JoelGrey, is Jewish.

* Mrs. Wolowitz in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''.

* ''Literature/NakedCameTheStranger'': Melvin Corby's mother disapproves of everything about his life, from his wife ("A Jewish girl who doesn't know enough to save chicken fat") to his name change ("What'll you tell the fancy neighbors? My name is Corby, and this is my mother, Mrs. Korbinsky?") to his seven-year-old's horseback riding lessons ("[[WordSchmord Fancy schmancy]]. Who needs it? Better he should get good marks.")

* Constance Temple from the ''Series/{{GONE}}'' series is a "non-observant Jew".