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Now showing in IMAX, the film was inspired by the director’s trip to Israel
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The surprisingly gradual but unmistakably dramatic transformation of Mel Brooks
Jeremy Dauber's 'Disobedient Jew' demonstrates why the comic and filmmaker's work was markedly different in his early years
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I watched 6 Christian Purim movies so you wouldn’t have to
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How Hollywood found its Anne Frank — and why it wasn’t Audrey Hepburn
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‘South Park’ delivers a strong satire of Kanye West’s antisemitism
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