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 Why Jews Should Root For France In The World Cup — Not Croatia
With its 2-1 victory over England, Croatia has secured its place in the World Cup final, squaring off against France for the coveted cup this Sunday. So, who should Jews root for in the final match? To answer this question, we need to look at the countries’ records, not in soccer, but with the Jews….
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Culture Pepe The Frog, Beloved Alt-Right Meme, Scrubbed From Daily Stormer
Pepe the Frog, the unwitting mascot of the so-called alt-right, is on the fast track to bettering his personal brand. Motherboard reports that the legal team of Pepe’s creator, Matt Furie, has successfully petitioned neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer to take down Pepe’s unlicensed image. The removal marked a victory for the web-footed innocent who’s…
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Culture Murder-Solving Sigmund Freud To Star On Netflix
Since Steven Moffat re-imagined Sherlock Holmes as a self-described “high-functioning sociopath,” prestige mysteries have been having a love affair with psychology. So it’s only natural that the father of psychoanalysis would find his way into the genre. Netflix has announced it’s taking on the Austrian thriller “Freud” which will follow a young Siggy through his…
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Film & TV Stanley Kubrick Explains The Ending Of ‘2001’ (Kind Of)
Towards the end of his career, Stanley Kubrick began presenting some of the less attractive qualities of a genius. His hygiene became dubious, he was famously gruff with reporters, allegedly abusive to his actors and notoriously gnomic when it came to interpretations of his work. So a recently unearthed clip of him explaining one of…
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Art A Comic Tells The Story Of Henry Ford And A Jewish Math Whiz
Thanks in no small part to J.D. Salinger’s “Franny and Zooey,” radio show whiz kids have long held a special spot in the Jewish-American imagination. But it may surprise some that the real world purpose of “Quiz Kids,” a 1940s trivia show, was to promote Jewish intelligence during a time when Jewish lives were most…
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Culture Somebody Feed Phil Season 2 Is Now Netflix’s Most Jewish Show
For the past three years, Phil Rosenthal, creator of “Everybody Loves Raymond,” has been travelling the world in search of great food and lasting friendship. A nebbish-y Anthony Bourdain, Rosenthal began his culinary tourism in 2015 with the PBS show, “I’ll Have What Phil’s Having.” This first entrée (pardon the pun) was followed up earlier…
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Culture The Real Amy Winehouse Surfaces In New Photo Book
When we imagine Amy Winehouse, the late and troubled singer-songwriter of “Rehab,” we may imagine her jet-black bouffant or her severe eyeliner. A new photo book, out in August from Taschen, appears to challenge and, at times, reinforce that image. Simply titled “Amy Winehouse,” the book seeks to strip away the patina of makeup to…
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Culture How Jewish Movie Moguls Quietly Helped To Fight The Nazis
Open Culture has published an article praising the Warner Brothers loud dissent against Nazis and censors in the 1930s by producing such films as “Confessions of a Nazi Spy” and the Hitler-lampooning cartoon, “Bosko’s Picture Show.” The Warners, children of Polish immigrants, were certainly outspoken among the cadre of Jewish studio heads at the time,…
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