Showing posts with label Laurence Olivier. Show all posts
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Thursday, September 28, 2017

Throwback Thursday Yom Kippur Special: Final Scene of "The Jazz Singer" with Neil Diamond


With this Throwback Thursday coming one day before the Yom Kippur Kol Nidrei service, we're going back 37 years, not for the usual comedy skit, but for the emotional scene toward the end of the 1980 film The Jazz Singer.

In this clip, Neil Diamond as young cantor Yussel Rabinovich who has taken the stage name of Jess Robin, returns to the synagogue of his ailing cantor father (played by Sir Laurence Olivier) and sings Kol Nidrei, leading to a reconciliation.

Enjoy!

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