PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at grisar@forward.com and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
PJ Grisar
By PJ Grisar
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Culture Should The Quran And New Testament Come With Trigger Warnings For Jews?
Trigger warnings continue to be a touchy subject in college classrooms, but could they be making their way to bible study groups? The Daily Mail Reports that, following a conference this month in Vienna, the European Jewish Congress produced a series of guidelines that suggest adding introductions and disclaimers to anti-Semitic passages found in the…
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Film & TV ‘Hanukkah: A Festival Of deLights’ Reveals The Rise Of A Family Holiday In America
Filmmaker David Anton’s latest documentary for PBS is, like its subject, a family affair. Anton filmed “Hanukkah: A Festival of deLights” an hour-long special premiering Sunday November 25 on New York’s WLIW, with his father, retired rabbi Marvin Antonofsky, interviewing most of the movie’s subjects. “For me to be able to do a project like…
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Art Roman Vishniac’s Photographs Will Move West To UC Berkeley
The photographer Roman Vishniac resettled many times. Born in St. Petersburg, he fled to Berlin in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution; in the 1930s he returned to Eastern Europe to document shtetl life; and he ultimately fled from Germany in the 1940s to live in New York, where the bulk of his photographs have…
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Culture Check Out The New Song From ‘Hamilton’ With Music By John Kander
For all of its many merits “Hamilton” doesn’t have much to offer fans of good old fashioned show tunes. Leave it to legendary “Cabaret” composer John Kander, one half of Jewish duo Kander and Ebb, to remedy that. In one of his trademark #HamilDrops show creator Lin-Manuel Miranda released a brand new Hamilton-themed song for…
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Culture The Most Notable Jewish Books Of The Year
The books of 2018 brought fresh perspectives, vital voices and new ways to examine questions of identity, history and even literature itself. And many of the best were authored by members of the tribe. Admittedly, we’re a bit biased, so don’t take our word for it: Look to The New York Times Book Review, which…
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Culture Steven Berkoff Is Writing A Harvey Weinstein Play — And He Wants To Star
Actor and playwright Steven Berkoff wants to stage and star in a production of “Harvey.” No, not the 1944 Mary Chase comedy about an invisible six-foot-tall rabbit, but a new, one-act, one-man show about the very visible movie mogul and alleged sex offender Harvey Weinstein. “I like evil people,” Berkoff said in a November 20…
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Culture Historian Ron Chernow Will Hold Dais At The White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Next year’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner may not be as controversial — or funny — as this year’s. The WHCA announced on November that Ron Chernow, the Pulitzer-winning biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington and John D. Rockefeller, will be the featured speaker of the festivities on April 27, 2019. The selection of Chernow…
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Film & TV With ‘The Kominsky Method’ Chuck Lorre Gets The Netflix Boost
A welcome, if counterintuitive, symptom of the age of Netflix has been the revival of old Hollywood careers. It may have all started with 2015’s “Grace and Frankie” which gave a starring platform to Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda, whom studios had tended to neglect or bury in grandma roles. In “Grace and Frankie” Tomlin…
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