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(RNS) — Now that you have finished bingeing the fifth season of Fauda , I have another recommendation for you.

It is “East of Eden,” the seven-episode limited series on Netflix, based on John Steinbeck’s 1952 novel. Zoe Kazan created and wrote it, and Florence Pugh stars as Cathy Ames.

It is simply an amazing viewing experience. If you had the time, you would finish it in one sitting and be glad you did.

But you might also wonder why I am reviewing this series. You might say that a saga of farmers in California’s Salinas Valley at the turn of the 20th century hardly seems like Jewish territory.

You would be wrong. There is much here that is Jewish, or at least metaphorically Jewish.

This story is more Jewish than it knows.

First, the story is biblical.…