The Nation, September 19th, 1988
No one should go without spiritual guidance to see The Last Temptation of Christ-Martin Scorsese's adaptation of the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis -so I went in the company of Rabbi Simcha Feffeferman, leader of Congregation Anshe Tsurres. "Rabbi," I said, as we left the theater, dodging the Bible-laden protesters, "is this film bad for the Jews?"
"And what isn't?" he replied. "Let me rephrase the question. Here we have a picture directed by a Roman Catholic, based on a novel by a Greek Orthodox writer, with a screenplay by Paul Schrader, who is, I understand, Dutch Reformed. Yet, because the ...
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