PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at grisar@forward.com and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
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By PJ Grisar
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Film & TV The greatest film about France in World War II is also a blistering critique of filmmaking
Marcel Ophüls’ ‘The Sorrow and the Pity’ lays bear the horrors (and delights) of its own medium
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Culture YIVO to digitize millions of documents from Jewish Labor Bund
The effort will make countless artifacts available for the first time
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Culture Roald Dahl said terrible things — but rarely in his children’s books
The author’s work is undergoing a reported rewrite for inclusion. It’s his antisemitism that ought to be examined.
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Fast Forward Richard Belzer, comedian and Jewish TV cop for all seasons, dies at 78
Belzer played the character of John Munch in ‘Homicide: Life on the Street,’ ‘The X-Files’ and ‘Law & Order: SVU’
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Culture On ‘Seinfeld,’ Raquel Welch wasn’t afraid to make fun of herself
The sex symbol had one of the sitcom’s more memorable cameos
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Music How one of the giants of jazz composed a hymn for Black-Jewish unity
Dave Brubeck's 1969 opus ‘Gates of Justice’ is on its way to UCLA
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Culture All the Jew(ish) Super Bowl 2023 ads
Between Ma&Ya's and the Snapchat commercial, it was all a bit much
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Film & TV You want it darker? Marc Maron’s game.
In his HBO special ‘From Bleak to Dark,’ the comic talks grief, Jewishness and the apocalypse
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Culture Why saying ‘L’shana Tova’ on Rosh Hashanah may not be the correct phrase
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Culture A Jewish prophet of the 1980s would be horrified to see that we didn’t heed his warnings
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Fast Forward Meet Lev Kreitman, who brought down Tel Aviv shooter and survived Nova music festival on Oct. 7
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Fast Forward Antisemitism hits record high in the U.S.; new report shows most-ever incidents in single year
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Culture He founded the Harlem Globetrotters and is the shortest man in the basketball hall of fame. A new book tells his story.
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