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When One Shalom Isn't Enough — Friday Night Dinner (2011–2020)

Creator: Robert Popper.

Friday Night Dinner is a British sitcom that follows the Goodman family, a middle-class Jewish household in North London, who gather every Friday evening for a Shabbat meal. In a running joke through the series, their non-Jewish neighbour 'Jim' continually misemploys the word 'Shalom' as he tries to come to grips with Jewish tradition.

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