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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Books 24 visions of Leonard Cohen, no clear picture of who he was
'The World of Leonard Cohen’ compares the mythologies of the musician and poet
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Books For the first time since Hitler, a Hebrew publisher sets up shop in Germany
Altneuland Press aims to assert Hebrew as a global language once more
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Film & TV At Sundance, the AIDS crisis through the eyes of a bar mitzvah boy
Israeli director Moshe Rosenthal’s ‘Tell Me Everything’ is a memory piece that may jog your memory of a different film
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Film & TV Judd Apatow on why Mel Brooks’ influence ‘will last as long as our jokes’
Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio, directors of the new HBO documentary on Brooks, talk about his legacy of laughter
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Film & TV In a stylish mystery, Jodie Foster releases the dybbuk of French Jewish identity
‘A Private Life’ gets at the heart of a demon France has yet to fully exorcise
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Film & TV Charles Grodin was a curmudgeon with a gooey center
A new documentary shows how the late actor used his celebrity for good
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Looking Forward Emma Goldman, superstar? The Jewish anarchist has a surprising role to play in American musical theater
Goldman turns up a lot in musicals — what would she think of that?
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Culture 2025’s Jewish highlights — from ‘Marty Supreme’ to Max Fried’s menschy move
It was a whirlwind year, for Jews and the world
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