PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at grisar@forward.com and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
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Culture In a new podcast, blacklisted filmmakers make a movie — and an FBI agent lets them
Jon Hamm plays a G-man spying on the production of 1954’s ‘Salt of the Earth’ in Audible’s ‘The Big Lie’
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Culture A new exhibit shows how Jewish marriage evolved – from 12th-century Egypt to modern-day America
The first show at the JTS library's new gallery has rare ketubot from different centuries and continents
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Theater Billy Crystal’s fake Yiddish was a Jewish standout at the Tonys — but how should Jews feel about it?
The shtick was familiar and fun, but did it reduce the mameloshn to a punchline?
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Culture A new book explains Pope Pius XII’s silence during the Shoah — but does not excuse it
Using newly-opened Vatican archives, David Kertzer discovered the pope’s secret meetings with Nazis and refusal to confirm the mass murder of Jews to the Allies
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Fast Forward The new trailer for Ben Shapiro and Gina Carano’s film collab has violence, no Holocaust comparisons
‘Terror on the Prairie’ marks the ‘Mandalorian’ star’s comeback after Disney fired her after a social media post
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Film & TV Why is the new Leonard Bernstein Netflix movie code-named Rybernia?
The production alias of the biopic shows that writer-director-star Bradley Cooper did his research
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Film & TV Remembering Ray Liotta’s most Jewish scene
Liotta wasn't Jewish, but he seemed to understand Jews
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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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