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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Culture In the new Fantastic Four trailer, a glimpse of Yancy Street’s Yiddishkeit
Keep your eyes peeled in the new movie for challahs and tikkun olam
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Film & TV In ‘The Rehearsal’ season 2, is Nathan Fielder serious?
The comedian is out to solve an epidemic of airplane crashes — will the world listen?
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Theater William Finn, Tony-winning writer of queer, Jewish musicals dies at 73
The ‘Falsettos’ scribe drew from his own background and even health crises
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Culture An endangered tortoise had a geriatric miracle birth — Sarah did it first
The nearly 100-year-old animals at the Philadelphia Zoo recall moments in Genesis
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Film & TV In 1913 Vienna, Freud meets Hitler — and the patient of his nightmares
Richard Ledes’ ‘V13’ stars Alan Cumming as the father of psychoanalysis
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Theater The ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ revival has us wondering — where are all the Jewish Shelley Levenes?
Bob Odenkirk plays the Jewish character in David Mamet’s drama on Broadway
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Film & TV Why Robby said the Shema on ‘The Pitt’
In a moment of crisis, the agnostic Jewish doctor declared faith in God
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Film & TV Val Kilmer was the voice of my generation’s Moses (and God)
The actor, who died Tuesday, played the Hebrew prophet three times
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