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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Film & TV Why Zelenskyy made a Jewish joke in his Netflix interview with David Letterman
The Ukrainian President hasn’t made much of his background — but he’s happy to joke about it
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Film & TV To know what Saul Bellow thinks of cancel culture, read his work (or watch this film)
A new PBS documentary confronts what made the novelist so controversial — and so great
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Culture As Time’s Person of the Year, Zelenskyy joins a short list of Jews, and a longer list of antisemites
The first person given the title was Charles Lindbergh. Stalin and Hitler followed not long after
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Culture Nazi aesthetics sold Kanye West on everything else about Hitler
If you watch the Infowars interview, West was mostly praising the looks and sounds of Hitler’s Germany
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Culture Did the Talmud warn us about ‘Cocaine Bear’?
Turns out Jewish texts have a bit to say about dangerous bears (if not cocaine)
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Culture Amazon CEO says he’ll still sell that antisemitic movie Kyrie Irving tweeted about
Removing ‘Hebrews to Negroes’ would leave out customers with ‘different viewpoints’
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Film & TV Haredi Jews won a legal battle against conversion therapy — a new film shows the fight’s not over
‘Queer and Frum’ explores life after coming out
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Film & TV Why Stephen Sondheim is in ‘Glass Onion’
The late Broadway icon was also a puzzle fanatic and lover of murder mysteries
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