PJ Grisar
Al Franken says America feels like Nazi Germany in the ’30s. Is he right?
“Well, at least I’m not Jewish,” Franken gibed about his perceived Nazification of America. “Oh wait, wait I am.”
She filmed the final days of her father’s life. Here’s what she wants us to know about assisted death.
“We are able to put our pets to sleep and we can’t put ourselves to sleep. The process needs to be streamlined and should be more humane”
A kids’ guide to gender and sexuality arrives in Yiddish - and hopes to reach Hasidic children
“You Be You,” translated into over 20 languages, aims to teach Hasidic kids about different genders, sexualities and family structures in Yiddish.
How Ady Barkan’s story sparked a movement
“Ady understood intuitively the power of his grueling and emotionally difficult experience to shape a political narrative.”
Is ‘Rifkin’s Festival’ Woody Allen’s love letter to cinema — or something more cynical?
“Rifkin’s Festival,” Woody Allen’s 49th feature, has a marketing problem. And it’s not the one you think.
Sexy, vibrant and daring, this is not your typical Jewish film festival fare
“Sin La Habana” is a sexy, vibrant and daring piece of filmmaking. But it’s too crowded to fully work.
Would the Jewish writer of ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’ support filibuster reform?
Sidney Buchman, who wrote the famed filibuster scene, had his own moment of heroic conviction later.
Wordle’s massively popular (Jewish) predecessors
If you are are currently beguiled by a 5-by-6 grid of letters, you may be interested to know about Wordle’s Jewish precursor.
Remembering Bob Saget, Millennials’ embarrassing, bawdy, beloved Jewish dad
Children of the ‘90s discovered Bob Saget in phases – he was one of the rare comedy acts that aged with you, while never quite maturing.
The Jewish mentor Sidney Poitier never got to thank
Sidney Poitier often credited a more obscure figure for his success: an old Jewish waiter.