History Main / ShiksaGoddess

* The musical ''Theatre/TheLastFiveYears'', which actually has a song titled "Shiksa Goddess" in which Jaime reiterates that he'd take any girl as long as she wasn't Jewish.

** The straightest example is Peggy Olson. RaisedCatholic, blue-eyed, and of Irish Catholic and Norwegian ancestry, she dates the culturally-Jewish Abe Drexler from Season 4 through Season 7A. Also, in a one-off moment, Peggy's colleague Michael Ginsburg's AlterKocker father had a [[DirtyOldMan very interesting reaction when he saw her]].

* It's never elaborated on but Lenny Briscoe on ''Series/LawAndOrder'' had a Jewish father and a Catholic mother. (At one point this causes a bigoted lawyer to link Lenny to an alleged Jewish conspiracy due to his last name; Lenny is understandably pissed, and points out to [=McCoy=] that he's not even Jewish.)

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** Lady Rose becomes a near ''perfect'' example (blonde, blue-blooded and British)[[note]]Daughter of a Scottish marquess, to be exact[[/note]] when she hooks up with the Jewish Atticus Aldridge in Series 5.

* The 1950s Hollywood film ''Young Lions'' has a young Jewish man called Noah falling for a [[WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant WASP]] called Hope. She is indeed a beautiful blonde with blue eyes.

* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' has one of the classics, The Queen of Sheba, show up. She never actually gets a chance to interact with King Solomon on-screen, but she firmly establishes that yes, she was among his 700 wives and they did love each other.

** Howard ends up with Bernadette (played by Melissa Rauch, who ironically is Jewish herself). They initially connect over freaking out their families. Bernadette, being Catholic, is thrilled at the prospect of freaking out ''her'' parents. Their relationship has since moved beyond that joke.

* ''Film/AnnieHall'': The contrast between Annie's white-bread Midwestern WASP family and (Allen's character) Alvy's Brooklyn Jewish family is frequently PlayedForLaughs. One of the working titles was even ''Me and My Goy''. Some other films by Creator/WoodyAllen also qualify. His two longest relationships have been with Mia Farrow and Soon-yi Previn who are both non-Jews.

* ''{{Series/Scrubs}}'' gives Elliot an ImagineSpot where she thinks of her dream husband. He's Jewish - while she is blonde and blue-eyed. So her low self-esteem may be imagining ''herself'' as this.

* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'': In "The Serenity Now", Elaine's "shiksappeal" attracts three Jewish men over the course of the episode. It starts with a 13-year-old boy who, immediately after being officially declared a man during his bar mitzvah, forcefully makes out with her. When she rejects him because he's only 13 and therefore not "really" a man yet, he ''renounces Judaism'', calling the bar mitzvah a sham. Later on, the boy's father plants one on her as well, and when she tells him that he's only attracted her because of her shiksappeal, he ''also'' renounces Judaism in an effort to prove that he'd still be attracted to her if he wasn't Jewish. Finally, when she tries to talk to a rabbi about how to get rid of her shiksappeal, the rabbi tells her that shiksappeal is just a myth... and then immediately proceeds to hit on her. Even Jerry's attracted to her in this episode; after his girlfriend makes him get more in touch with his feelings, he actually proposes to Elaine. (Ironically, Elaine is played by the Jewish Creator/JuliaLouisDreyfus.)[[note]]In point of fact, of the actors playing the Gang, only Michael Richards--who played Kramer--''wasn't'' Jewish. (Jason Alexander is Jewish--his legal name is Jay Greenspan. He looks much more Jewish when he has a beard.)[[/note]] This is even though the only confirmed Jewish member of the Gang was Jerry--and even though Kramer could have been Jewish.[[/note]]

* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'': In "The Serenity Now", Elaine's "shiksappeal" attracts three Jewish men over the course of the episode. It starts with a 13-year-old boy who, immediately after being officially declared a man during his bar mitzvah, forcefully makes out with her. When she rejects him because he's only 13 and therefore not "really" a man yet, he ''renounces Judaism'', calling the bar mitzvah a sham. Later on, the boy's father plants one on her as well, and when she tells him that he's only attracted her because of her shiksappeal, he ''also'' renounces Judaism in an effort to prove that he'd still be attracted to her if he wasn't Jewish. Finally, when she tries to talk to a rabbi about how to get rid of her shiksappeal, the rabbi tells her that shiksappeal is just a myth... and then immediately proceeds to hit on her. Even Jerry's attracted to her in this episode; after his girlfriend makes him get more in touch with his feelings, he actually proposes to Elaine. (Ironically, Elaine is played by the Jewish Julia Louis-Dreyfus.)

* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'': In "The Serenity Now", Elaine's "shiksappeal" attracts three Jewish men over the course of the episode. It starts with a 13-year-old boy who, immediately after being officially declared a man during his bar mitzvah, forcefully makes out with her. When she rejects him because he's only 13 and therefore not "really" a man yet, he ''renounces Judaism'', calling the bar mitzvah a sham. Later on, the boy's father plants one on her as well, and when she tells him that he's only attracted her because of her shiksappeal, he ''also'' renounces Judaism in an effort to prove that he'd still be attracted to her if he wasn't Jewish. Finally, when she tries to talk to a rabbi about how to get rid of her shiksappeal, the rabbi tells her that shiksappeal is just a myth... and then immediately proceeds to hit on her. Even Jerry's attracted to her in this episode; after his girlfriend makes him get more in touch with his feelings, he actually proposes to Elaine.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', all male residents of the Fifth Dimension are SpaceJews. The one female resident depicted is [[Creator/GilbertGottfried Mxy]]'s wife, Gspltsnz, who bears a striking resemblance to [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Jessica Rabbit]].

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* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' None of Kyle Broflovski's love interests have ever been Jewish. Rebecca, Bebe, Nichole, Heidi, and Leslie were all gentiles. Even the two people he's most shipped with in fandom (Stan and Cartman) aren't Jewish.

** Howard ends up with Bernadette. They initially connect over freaking out their families. Bernadette, being Catholic, is thrilled at the prospect of freaking out ''her'' parents. Their relationship has since moved beyond that joke.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' None of Kyle Broflovski's love interests have ever been Jewish. Rebecca, Bebe, Nichole, and Leslie were all gentiles. Even the two people he's most shipped with in fandom(Stan and Cartman) aren't Jewish.

The tendency of some Jewish male characters in media to be paired with a non-Jewish female character ("Shiksa" in Yiddish). Typically, shiksas represent the exotic outsider to the insular Jewish community. Jews looking to break free of the bonds of Jewish society might do so through association with shiksas. A gentile partner might also be a status symbol in areas where Jews are still discriminated against. Other Jewish men might simply be more attracted to women without Semitic features. Shiksas are often [[PhenotypeStereotype blonde and blue-eyed]], traits more rare among Jews, to distinguish them from the Jewish norm.

* ''Literature/{{Trilby}}'' is perhaps the UrExample.

* The titular character from ''Jeffery Archer's'' short story, Christina Rosenthal, certainly qualifies.

* Ruth, the Moabite daughter-in-law of the Jewish widow Naomi, who later on marries Noami's kinsman Boaz. There's also the wives of Joseph (married an Egyptian) and Moses (married a Midianite/Ethiopian).