Let's chat: Who's your favorite NJD?

That's Nice Jewish Doctor.

In movies and TV, and perhaps for some in real life, there’s one type of Jewish bashert, destined loved one, a truly stereotypical Jewish mom always wants for her daughter (and sometimes son!). Beyond an NJB or NJG (that’s nice Jewish boy or girl), the ideal matchmaking mother is looking for an NJD — a nice Jewish doctor, the kind that she can call late at night with her hypochondriac queries, because, duh, she’s a stereotypical Jewish mom.

The NJD is also a beloved TV trope. The NJD is not usually the main character in any given show, with shows like “Northern Exposure” (one must go all the way to Alaska for a NJD MC) and “The Patient” (where Steve Carrell plays something a bit more dark and complex than your average NJD) being the rare exceptions. Yet he’s allowed to be a quirky token character.

Maybe he’s an annoying, stereotypically Jewish doctor, like Dr. Christopher Taub from “House.” Maybe he’s the hospital director. Maybe he’s a character who adds some extra diversity, like the queer former Orthodox Dr. Asher Wolk in “The Good Doctor,” played by Noah Galvin. Or maybe he’s a sweet, doting romantic interest for the main character.

That latter is the case with two characters in new shows. The first is Dr. Jake Heller in Hulu’s “Doc,” who wears a chai necklace and ditches a Passover seder to work the night shift with the show’s titular doc. Heller is played by Jon Ecker, who isn’t, as far as I can tell, Jewish. The show does miss the opportunity to finally give Scott Wolf, who plays another doctor in the show and is my favorite “Party of Five” crush, the opportunity to play an authentically Jewish character.

The second and more exciting one, IMO, is Max Greenfield’s Lev Levy from the upcoming basketball comedy/Netflix’s Ted Lasso attempt called “Running Point.”

Greenfield (aka Schmidt from “New Girl”) will play the doting fiancé of Isla Gordon, the show’s protagonist, who has to manage the basketball team owned by her family, and who is played by Jewish actress Kate Hudson. As I wrote on Kveller earlier this month, Greenfield plays the nicest kind of NJD, a pediatrician who stands behind his love through thick and thin.

I’m really excited to delve more into “Running Point,” but before that, I want to know: Who’s your favorite nice Jewish doctor on TV? Let me know in the comments.

(Mine, I think, remains Cristina Yang on “Grey’s Anatomy,” not the nicest of nice Jewish doctors, but an independent, badass Jewish woman and a pretty great doctor. As much as I like to talk about authentic casting, and as flawed as I find “Grey’s Anatomy,” Sandra Oh playing this mesmerizing Jewish character still feels like such a win.)