PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at [email protected] and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
PJ Grisar
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Film & TV Can ‘September 5,’ a film about Israeli hostages in a time of Israeli hostages, survive the news cycle?
Tim Fehlbaum’s film about the Munich massacre is hard to separate from today’s headlines
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Culture Has Mark Zuckerberg become the anti-Elon Musk?
A facepalm-worthy rap cover from Zuck sets him apart from Musk's recent antics
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Film & TV John Garfield and Paul Newman could have been contenders in ‘On the Waterfront’
A new book on Elia Kazan’s 1954 classic suggests the film that might have been — without Brando
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Theater In this ‘Merchant of Venice,’ tragedy tomorrow, comedy tonight
Igor Golyak’s production brings the show back to a comedic mode the way Shakespeare intended — to make a point about antisemitism
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Culture Did JD Vance mean to quote the wisdom of a serial killer from a Coen Brothers film?
The vice president-elect praised the wisdom of Anton Chigurh from Cormac McCarthy’s ‘No Country for Old Men’
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Film & TV Why movies are tackling a real pain: memory and Holocaust tourism
The films ‘Treasure,’ ‘Delegation’ and ‘A Real Pain’ use tours of Poland as a backdrop for character studies
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Culture Is Elon Musk Jewish?
The billionaire CEO and ally of former and future President Donald Trump has a Hebrew name
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Culture Ivanka Trump suggests you avoid this central sin in Judaism — will her father listen?
Trump's daughter said to ‘choose words that heal, not harm’
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