This was Robert Downey Jr.'s most Jewish (or at least most Talmudic) movie

This was Robert Downey Jr.'s most Jewish (or at least most Talmudic) movie

The buzz is that Robert Downey Jr. might snag an Emmy for The Sympathizer — the same year he won an Oscar for Oppenheimer. I turned 50 this week and fell in love with RDJ around the time of my bat mitzvah. But it was only in the wake of Oct. 7, when he was spotted at the Santa Barbara Film Festival sporting a chai necklace, that it occurred to me that my favorite RDJ movie, 1989’s Chances Are, is actually a modern contribution to the Talmud. To …