Is Steven Spielberg a Rabbi?

Strictly speaking, no. Though coming from an observant family, he embraced the movie-house, not the Yeshiva.

The term “Rabbi” however, literally means “My teacher.” Spielberg’s lessons have been priceless. More than any other individual (not named Elie Wiesel), he educated the world about the Holocaust. His Oscar-winning Schindler’s List is responsible for the public consciousness of it far more than all the history books and survivors’ testimony combined. Furthermore, to preserve the latter, he established the Shoah Foundation to videotape survivors. He single-handedly fulfilled every survivor’s only commandment – “Gedenk! Zachor! Remember!” more than all the rabbinical sermons on the subject in history combined.

Is he literally colorblind?

If so, he has never disclosed it (unlike other directors like Chris Nolan.) What is striking however is that his three arguably greatest films feel devoid of it. Lincoln didn’t focus on the blue and gray, or the red, of the bloodiest war in our history, but on the emotions, limned in shades of gray. Saving Private Ryan opens and closes focused on an American flag waving in the wind, blanched of........

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