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125 greatest Jewish movie scenes
The 125 greatest Jewish movie scenes of all time (101-125)
Jimmy Cagney speaks Yiddish, Stephen Sondheim scores a French film and Adam Sandler has a Seder
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125 greatest Jewish movie scenes In a rare Lumet comedy, Jews meet an unexpected landsman
Why the cab scene in 'Bye Bye Braverman' is still a riot
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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
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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
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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.
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125 greatest Jewish movie scenes How Ernst Lubitsch punched Hitler in the face
In an unforgettable scene in 'To Be or Not to Be,' a Polish actor gets the last laugh
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125 greatest Jewish movie scenes How the most over-the-top bar mitzvah movie taught Jews who they shouldn’t be
'The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz' made Richard Dreyfuss into a star — just not a likable one
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125 greatest Jewish movie scenes Redeeming the girl in the red coat
The 'Schindler's List' scene has been accused of 'kitsch.' That's why it's so effective.
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125 greatest Jewish movie scenes Over beers, a Hasidic widower challenges our assumptions
In a key scene in 'Menashe,' the lead character and his Latino co-workers connect across cultures
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125 greatest Jewish movie scenes Meet the prop maven who knows how to make any movie scene look Jewish
For more than 40 years, Suri Bieler has been defining what Jewish American life looks like on screen.
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With a flag and ‘The Star-Spangled Banner,’ an Israeli Uncle Sam broadcasts love for America
On July 4th — and every day — Shimon Horowitz, 75, rides his flag-festooned tricycle on an Israeli boardwalk
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