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  125 greatest Jewish movie scenes

  A scene that was so Jewish it wound up on the cutting-room floor

  The director of 'The Chosen' recalls a sequence that didn't make the final cut

  By Jeremy Kagan

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  125 greatest Jewish movie scenes

  How Barbra Streisand remade the world for Jewish girls

  In three scenes, the actor-singer-director formed new standards of beauty

  By Carrie Rickey Jul 1, 2022 | 4 min read
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  125 greatest Jewish movie scenes

  In ‘Call Me by Your Name,’ a scene of Jewish (and gay) discretion

  Queerness and Jewishness — forms of Otherness — are overlapping identities in Luca Guadagnino's Italian film.

  By Mira Fox Jul 1, 2022 | 2 min read

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  125 greatest Jewish movie scenes

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  125 greatest Jewish movie scenes

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  By Andrew Silverstein Jul 1, 2022 | 9 min read
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  ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’ is a charmer – but its Jewish characters need some work

  Cooper Raiff's film, on Apple TV+ follows a non-Jewish b'nai mitzvah hype man

  By PJ Grisar Jun 22, 2022 | 3 min read
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  By Andrew Lapin Jun 16, 2022 | 4 min read
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  The SpongeBob SquarePants theme song is now in Yiddish

  A YIVO scholar translates a popular sea shanty about ‘yam-narishkaytn.’

  By Jackie Hajdenberg Jun 13, 2022 | 3 min read