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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Film & TV Why Alana Haim wears a Star of David in ‘One Battle After Another’
Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic is a vibrant cross section of the America that makes white nationalists mad
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Music ‘Kavalier & Clay’ could be a Jewish-American ‘Ring Cycle’ — what would Richard Wagner think of it?
The adaptation of Michael Chabon’s novel traces a uniquely American mythology
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Theater Richard Linklater wants you to remember Lorenz Hart
Ethan Hawke is captivating as the tragic lyricist in ‘Blue Moon’
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Music Is Britney Spears hot for Hasidic beards?
The popstar posted a cryptic Instagram admiring the whiskers of Chabadniks playing chess
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Art A mural dedicated to Holocaust memory — in Babylonian, Yiddish and Chinese
Ella Ponizovsky-Bergelson’s installation comes to Philadelphia
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Film & TV ‘Eleanor the Great’ is a crowd-pleasing comedy with a queasy Holocaust concept
Scarlett Johansson’s debut as a director leverages a unique tragedy for a universal message
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Culture Where Eric Adams got his Rosh Hashanah fit
The New York mayor was spotted wearing some fresh Bukharian threads
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Theater An unprecedented, and unfinished, work of Yiddish scholarship is now an opera
‘The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language’ chronicles a quest to save a forgotten world
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