How a real-life rabbi coached Netflix's 'Nobody Wants This' about making interfaith relationships realistic

(JTA) - "Nobody Wants This," a rom-com Netflix series starring Adam Brody as a charming Los Angeles rabbi who falls for a blond, agnostic sex and dating podcaster played by Kristen Bell, is based on a true story - kind of.

Erin Foster, the creator of the show, is a blond Los Angeles native who found her match in a Jew, albeit not a rabbi - her husband is record-label owner Simon Tikhman - and converted for him. Like her protagonist Joanne (Bell), she also "got the ick" when her Jewish then-boyfriend eagerly tried to impress her mother with a bouquet of oversized sunflowers.

In other words, Fos...