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 6 backgrounds to use for your Zoom Seder — and more!
Why is this Passover different from all other Passovers? Only a simple child would ask such a question, but one answer is that so many of us far from home will be connecting with family via Zoom. But, while social distancing Seders may be a sad symptom of the times, they do come with at…
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Culture In the time of coronavirus, the world looks to Anne Frank
On Sunday March 22, as New York State marked nearly 17,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus, Anne Frank’s picture appeared on a Manhattan courthouse. BREAKING: Tonight, Never Again Action showed up at New York’s immigration courthouse, to demand that @NYGovCuomo use his emergency powers and influence to ensure the release of ICE detainees from New York’s…
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Culture Daily distraction: Livestream a McNally play, watch ‘The Wire,’ make something!
Welcome to your daily distraction, our recommendations for ways to stay engaged and entertained while we socially distance ourselves to combat the novel coronavirus outbreak. You can find our past recommendations here; many of the opportunities we’ve highlighted are ongoing. I wonder what your new routine is like. To give you a peek behind the…
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Culture Daily distraction: See some animals, tell your Passover story, and jam out while you clean
Welcome to your daily distraction, our recommendations for ways to stay engaged and entertained while we socially distance ourselves to combat the novel coronavirus outbreak. You can find our past recommendations here; many of the opportunities we’ve highlighted are ongoing. I can’t believe it’s already Sunday. For me, time is starting to blur and I’m…
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Culture Daily distraction: Andrew Lloyd Webber, the Louvre and family game night
Welcome to your daily distraction, our recommendations for ways to stay engaged and entertained while we socially distance ourselves to combat the novel coronavirus outbreak. You can find our past recommendations here; many of the opportunities we’ve highlighted are ongoing. Shabbat shalom, we’re still staying at home. This week was interesting, nu? I finished watching…
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Culture Daily distraction: Honor Adam Schlesinger, recreate a masterpiece and explore haggadot
Welcome to your daily distraction, our recommendations for ways to stay engaged and entertained while we socially distance ourselves to combat the novel coronavirus outbreak. You can find our past recommendations here; many of the opportunities we’ve highlighted are ongoing. I recently learned something that makes me feel a lot better about everything going on…
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Culture Why was Freud great? Magic, says Netflix.
Sigmund Freud couldn’t help but think that he was destined for great things — and, as with so many things in his worldview, the fault lay with his mother. The future father of psychoanalysis was born with a caul, a bit of amniotic membrane attached to his head. Amalia Freud believed that its presence portended…
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Culture Adam Schlesinger wrote the songbook of my youth — and the soundtrack for everyone else
If you were anywhere near a radio, television or movie theater in the past 25 years, you’ve heard Adam Schlesinger’s music. The songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and backing vocalist known for his longtime work in the bands Fountains of Wayne and Ivy, also wrote, co-wrote or produced hundreds of songs for film and TV. “I’ve never really…
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