‘The Big Sick’ Proves Jews Are No Longer The Face Of American Assimilation
This summer’s hit romantic comedy, “The Big Sick,” offers a hilarious, tender, fresh take on assimilation in America, the struggle to succeed in the entertainment business, and the conflicts surrounding questions of inter-ethnic romance. It is, as others have suggested, the 21st century’s “The Jazz Singer.” And the film is not an ironic parody of…