Okay, Annie Hall Is Pretty Jewish
So, listen, we get it: The whole greatest-Jewish-movies thing is overdone. We know that Fiddler on the Roof is Jewish. Yentl? Yep, lots of tzitzit and shtenders in that one, too. Sure, even Clueless has Cher Horowitz, a none-too-subtle jab at allegedly entitled Jewish girls across the land. No one needs to remind us that Exodus was about Jews, or Schindler's List, or The Jazz Singer.
But.
The online Jewish magazine Tablet has spent the past five days counting down their 100 greatest Jewish movies. And the thing is--we're not convinced. We get it. Really, we do! These movies aren't just about people whose last names end in -berg and -stein; they're about Jewish themes, about the big ideas: memory, exile, anxiety, cleaving together and apart, gallows humor.
But: Ghostbusters? The logic (that, and I can't believe I'm...