PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at [email protected] and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
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Film & TV Eichmann’s judgment — through the eyes of those who burned his body
Jake Paltrow speaks about his Hebrew-language film ‘June Zero’
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Theater His family survived the Holocaust. He survived long COVID. It’s Josh Fox’s ‘survivor’s obligation’ to fight the oil industry
In ‘The Edge of Nature,’ the Oscar nominee uses folk song to warn us about climate change
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Film & TV Why ‘Hava Nagila’ is TV’s new fight song
‘Knuckles’ and ‘The Boys’ recently used the song in some elaborate fight scenes
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Fast Forward Shaina Taub won two Tony Awards for ‘Suffs’ — and quoted the Talmud
The musical scribe reminded audiences that we have work to do to keep American democracy intact
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Theater ‘It’s my family play.’ Tony winner David Adjmi talks ‘Stereophonic’
Adjmi's play, nominated for 13 Tonys, is about a band's tumultuous act of creation
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Film & TV Is this a Hitler documentary worth watching?
Joe Berlinger’s Netflix docuseries ‘Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial’ is a lot better than it sounds
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Film & TV Did Elaine May disappear — or is that just another Hollywood myth?
The writer, director and actor deserves a better biographer than she gets in ‘Miss May Does Not Exist’
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Film & TV Wes Anderson meets Franz Kafka in a new streaming series
‘Kafka’ tells the story of the author’s life, death and conflicted Jewish identity
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