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Subscribe NowMany of Steven Spielberg’s movies have handled Jewish topics, and even his science-fiction films have had religious undertones. Yet, Daniel Socher writes, Spielberg’s religious yearnings are not Jewish ones, but a sort of universal longing for transcendence. His most recent work is no exception:
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