PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at [email protected] and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
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Film & TV How Leonard Cohen — and a Yom Kippur prayer — inspired a coming-of-age epic
Philippe Lesage’s ‘Who By Fire’ is about our vulnerability and our doubt
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Film & TV ‘Megalopolis’ and ‘The Brutalist’ build on Ayn Rand’s ‘Fountainhead,’ then blow up her ideas
Francis Ford Coppola’s and Brady Corbet's films deconstruct Rand's master builder
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Culture You can buy Sukkot gift boxes that say ‘tuchus’ on Amazon
Due to backwards letters, the party favors sold on Amazon are a bit cheeky
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Culture In an Eldridge Street mosaic, a reminder of a great Jewish artist
Mark Podwal, who died at 79, wanted people to see one of his last major works
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Culture In ‘The Brutalist,’ Adrien Brody wills an impossible dream
Brady Corbet’s epic follows a Holocaust survivor struggling to seize the American Dream
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Music Before his viral ‘Eating The Cats’ moment, The Kiffness remixed a Jewish Psalm
The South African musician worked on a version of ‘Im Hashem Lo Yivneh Bayis’
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Culture An up-close look at the real Theodor Herzl — and the real meaning of Zionism
At Temple Emanu-El, rare artifacts, including report cards, portraits and journals, explore the leader's life and legacy
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Books Old Jewish Men — and all aspiring to that status — now have a guide of their own
The founder of the viral brand speaks to the zen of being aged, Hebraic and direct to a fault
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