In the film imagine all, showing off all, destroy all, in this decade the Jewish Holocaust and cinematic Arab confrontation and IDF agonistes, this season’s obsession with Iran, why should Hollywood Jews go to see a picture of a dysfunctional relationship between Professor of Talmud abrasively Strait-jacketed in thick sweater and inhibition?
Not that Israel, as a whole, see any Americans more perceptively. All too often, if they bother to look at all, it is to disconnect the broad cultural myopia. Cartoon man ranged from being cheated, disposible philanthropist “Sallah Shabati (Israel first Oscar nominees, in 1964) to sketch comedy television show this week describing Israel as a participant rights sweet loutish, cluelessly hyper insta-Zionist.