PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at [email protected] and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
PJ Grisar
By PJ Grisar
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Film & TV Four decades later, a Jewish iconoclast’s searing film gets its debut
94-year-old Michael Roemer’s 1984 ‘Vengeance Is Mine’ confronts the themes that have preoccupied him throughout his career
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Culture Is Madison Cawthorn’s ‘gentile politics’ a dog whistle or a dumb misspelling?
The phrase could become dangerous, but he may not have meant it that way
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New York Voices In a new exhibit on Eldridge Street, an artist dreams of kosher hot dogs
Jewish folk artist Steve Marcus brings his winning weiner drawings to the East Village
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Culture The Tony 2022 nominees rain on Beanie Feldstein’s parade – but give us a parade of many Jewish faces
Billy Crystal, a Bob Dylan musical and a play about Jewish bankers are among the nominees
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Culture The secret Jewish history Of Hans Christian Andersen
The fabled author of fairy tales may have had a philo-Semitic streak.
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Film & TV Jennifer Grey knows you care about her nose
In the 'Dirty Dancing' star's memoir, she dishes on her fateful surgery and her Jewish identity
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Film & TV Did he just say ‘shiva?’ ‘Moon Knight’ delivers its most Jewish episode yet
Spoilers ahead for the Disney+ show's fifth episode
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Culture Is Elon Musk Jewish?
The billionaire CEO, soon to own Twitter, has a Hebrew name
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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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Culture Why Jews see pomegranates as symbols of both love and war
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Fast Forward College campuses mark Oct. 7 anniversary with rallies and protests — but largely not confrontation
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Fast Forward World leaders mourn Israeli victims and call for a ceasefire on anniversary of Oct. 7 attack
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Fast Forward Was a viral Ta-Nehisi Coates interview a hit piece or fair play? A journalism ethics expert weighs in.
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