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#100 Greatest Jewish Films101
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    No. 1: E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

    The greatest Jewish movie ever made

    byJody Rosen
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    No. 2: Sunset Boulevard

    The candid, insider’s take on Hollywood and the human condition

    byLiel Leibovitz
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    No. 3: A Night at the Opera

    The Marx Brothers’ best film takes absurdity to new heights

    byMarc Tracy
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    No. 4: Annie Hall

    The film we love to love

    byLiel Leibovitz
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    No. 5: The Jazz Singer

    The struggle to be heard

    byAlana Newhouse
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    No. 6: To Be or Not to Be

    Ernst Lubitsch makes us masters of our own destiny

    byLiel Leibovitz
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    No. 7: Blazing Saddles

    Fart scenes are the least of it

    byLiel Leibovitz
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    No. 8: The Graduate

    Here’s to you, Mrs. Robinson

    byJody Rosen
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    No. 9: The Apartment

    Billy Wilder’s self-aware portrait of American greed and heartlessness

    byLiel Leibovitz
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    No. 10: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    Total recall

    byLiel Leibovitz
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    No. 11: Miracle on 34th Street

    Holidays seasons

    byMarc Tracy
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    No. 12: Casablanca

    Hollywood at the service of the people who invented it

    byMarc Tracy
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    No. 13: Ghostbusters

    Do you believe in ghosts?

    byLiel Leibovitz
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    No. 14: The Producers

    The origin of the Holocaust joke

    byMarc Tracy
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    No. 15: The Big Lebowski

    A Coen brothers classic

    byLiel Leibovitz
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    No. 16: Meet the Parents

    Intermarriage license

    byAlana Newhouse
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    No. 17: Shoah

    The Holocaust as a human event

    byLiel Leibovitz
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    No. 18: Abie’s Irish Rose

    The idea of Jewish-Irish intermarriage

    byJody Rosen
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