PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at [email protected] and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
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Film & TV An Israeli dissident filmmaker finds tainted love amid the Gaza rubble
Nadav Lapid's ‘Yes’ takes on the war, art and the soul of a nation
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Books In 3 centuries of Southern Jewish life in the Big Easy, no easy way to be Jewish
Nicholas Lemann’s ‘Returning’ is a sprawling family history of the limits of assimilation
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Theater Roald Dahl’s monstrous views have a seat at the table today
The play ‘Giant,’ about Dahl’s antisemitism, is chilling for how close it matches contemporary talking points on Israel and Jews
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Film & TV Fox’s Bible story miniseries puts women front and center
‘The Faithful: Women of the Bible’ recounts the journeys of the matriarchs
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Film & TV Everything Jewish that happened at the Oscars: A ‘Marty Supreme’ shutout, an onstage ‘free Palestine’ and more
The Forward culture team breaks down everything Jewish in the Academy Awards
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Film & TV Walter Benjamin knew what Timothée Chalamet meant about opera and ballet
The 'Marty Supreme' star's comments on movies as a popular art form align surprisingly well with the German thinker's philosophy
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Culture In a new opera, Tevye’s forgotten daughter takes the spotlight
'Tevye’s Daughters’ recalls a repressed memory from the women’s perspective
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Music Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Broadway opus debuts in the U.S. — nearly 80 years late
'Silent Serenade,’ an undersung operetta, is premiering at Mannes Opera
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