Monica Geller terms of ethnicity, Crane confirmed that both Monica and Ross are half-Jewish, with their father being Jewish and their mother being of non-Jewish European ancestry. However, "Television's Changing Image of American Jews" categorized Monica as a "masked" Jew, explaining that "the smart, funny, and insecure Ross seems more Jewish" than Monica, who the author dismissed as "china-doll like" in appearance and demeanor. In his book "Encyclopedia of American Jewish History, Volume 1", author Stephen Harlan Norwood agrees that, unlike the show's male Jews, Monica's Jewish "markers" have been virtually removed. Although Monica and Rachel have remained best friends since high
Brother and Sister the Grimms was first published in the original 1812 edition of their "Children's and Household Tales", and subsequently featured in all later editions, with several additions in 1819. Nippon Animation Company of Japan featured the story in one episode of season two of its anime television series, "Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics". The siblings are given names other than their "titles": Rudolph for the Brother, Rosa for the Sister. Rosa is "not" murdered by the Witch, but instead is abducted and forcibly taken into a mountain. She uses some sort of bilocation to send out her soul and feed her baby,