Throwback Thursday at the Movies: Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint in Scene From "Exodus"

The Forward has published a list of the 125 Greatest Jewish Movie Scenes of All Time. Compiled by Forward cultural reporter PJ Grisar and a panel of experts, the list includes scenes from a very wide range of films.

As Grisar wrote in the introduction to the list,

If you were to edit the greatest Jewish scenes into a montage, how long would it last? Perhaps not the whole Parsha cycle, but it would be a real commitment to watch the entire thing. This list, which features some surprises, many obvious choices and surely just as many accidental omissions, is an attempt to capture the diversity and scope of Jewish moments in the film canon. Some highlight ritual, others language and still others a worldview or perspective that resonates with the shul-going, shiva-sitting, saw-you-at-Zabar’s set that’s been kicking around since Sinai.

In the coming weeks, we'll be using our Throwback Thursday posting to share some of these iconic, nostalgic scenes from films that resonated with us through the years. 

Today we take you back to 1960 when Paul Newman drove Eva Marie Saint to a Jezreel Valley overlook. As Dan Friedman described the scene,

Ari Ben Canaan (Paul Newman) and Kitty Fremont (Eva Marie Saint) drive up to a valley overlook. Sheb’s an American volunteer, he’s a Jewish fighter and they are working together to save Jewish refugees from internment camps. From this idyllic spot he points out Mount Tabor where the biblical judge, Deborah, gathered her force. He quotes the biblical passage and they kiss. It’s a taste of paradise in the midst of a movie full of Holocaust survival and the struggle for independence against the Brits.

Enjoy!

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