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By Joel Rosenberg, JNS.org When cinema was still in its youth, Hollywood built a story around the High Holidays. Its tale was a measure of Jewry’s ties to tradition, but also a gentle sign of its loss. In “The Jazz Singer” (1927), America’s first feature-length sound film, Jakie Rabinowitz isContinue Reading