Filmmakers have really dropped the Matzo Ball on representing Jews on screen. Quick, let’s play a game. Can you think of an influential or iconic Jewish movie? I’m gonna pause to say Fiddler On The Roof is too iconic. And please, don’t make it a Holocaust movie. Those, we’ve covered. As we must.
But for the purposes of this game, I mean something that just depicts somewhat regular Jewish life. Can you think of anything?
Recent Netflix hit You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah came through with a brilliantly relatable, albeit quirky representation of a Jewish community — one of the first I’ve ever seen.