PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at [email protected] and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
PJ Grisar
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Politics 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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Politics Thirsty Philly voters were in for a surprise: Paul Rudd and some handy hydration
Did he get the idea from the final season of ‘Curb Your Enthsiasm?’
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Politics Quoting Rod Serling — and, sort of, the bible — Dick Van Dyke endorses Harris
'Hatred is not the norm, prejudice is not the norm; suspicion, dislike, jealousy, scapegoating, none of those are the transcendent facet of the human personality.'
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Film & TV RFK Jr. (and Stanley Kubrick) don’t want you to drink the water
The Kennedy heir has vowed to eliminate fluoride from American taps, in a move straight out of ‘Dr. Strangelove’
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Theater Jason Alexander lives out a lifelong dream, playing Tevye in ‘Fiddler on the Roof’
'I wanted to do a piece that is proudly Semitic' said the Tony winner and ‘Seinfeld' star
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Film & TV He directed a film about the 1939 fascist MSG rally — here’s what he saw at Donald Trump’s
Marshall Curry saw ‘brilliant’ stagecraft and dark, familiar rhetoric
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Books Tangled up in Boo? Bob Dylan wants this South African horror press to look at his short stories
Crystal Lake Publishing got an unexpected shout-out from the Nobel winner
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Film & TV A gory horror series with Billy Crystal and Itzhak Perlman? Who is this for?
‘Before’ is too shallow to be smart and too silly to be scary
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