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 What does God think about a Texas school district banning the Bible?
Hear God’s thoughts in this exclusive interview with the almighty
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Culture Jimmy, Saul or David? How ‘Better Call Saul’ upends a biblical rivalry
Names matter in the world of “Better Call Saul” — especially the title character's
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Culture The Jewish ‘songs’ of Alain Resnais
A retrospective for the filmmaker’s 100th birthday finds a mixed, but compelling, bag of Jewish content
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Culture Is it too late now for Justin Bieber to say sorry … for doing a Nazi salute on stage?
The pop icon has some teshuva in his future
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Culture Wait, did Alex Jones’ lawyer really invoke the Holocaust to defend his client?
For some reason Jones’ defense paraphrased Martin Niemöller’s poem ‘First they came for...’
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Film & TV Why Jewishness — and Kabbalah — are key to understanding HBO’s ‘The Rehearsal’
On Nathan Fielder’s new show, the controversial comedian creates a series of small worlds
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Culture Why Truman Capote and Norman Mailer claimed there was a Jewish ‘Literary Mafia’
A new book details the rise of Jews in publishing and argues for their success as a model for other minority groups
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Film & TV Why ‘Nope’ spotlights Jewish prophets and mitzvahs
Jordan Peele’s blockbuster quotes the prophet Nahum and gives pride of place to the number 613
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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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Opinion This is the most disorienting Rosh Hashanah in memory
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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 Nova survivor reveals she witnessed rape on Oct. 7 at Tel Aviv memorial ceremony interrupted by rocket sirens
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Fast Forward In NYC, Jews gather together — and apart — for prayer and protest to mark one year since Oct. 7
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Fast Forward Trump visits gravesite of Lubavitcher Rebbe to mark Oct. 7 anniversary
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Fast Forward Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff plant a pomegranate tree for Oct. 7 victims
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