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 The Real Mark Zuckerberg Is A Lot Less Impressive Than The Movie Version
Screenwriter and playwright Aaron Sorkin has written for politicians, presidents, news anchors, colonels — all, for the most part, fictional. But Sorkin did have a rare real subject in his 2010 film “The Social Network,” gifting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg with some of the most sardonic and arch lines in the entire Sorkin-verse. Lately, some…
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Culture Without His Secret Identity, Will Superman Still Be Jewish?
The medium of comic books is a fundamentally American art form — and an overwhelmingly Jewish one. Superman, Batman, Captain America and the Fantastic Four all came from the minds and Bristol boards of Jewish-Americans, most of whom were first-generation. How these heroes spread from a New York nucleus of insular, and often nepotistic, artists’…
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Culture Auschwitz Exhibit To Extend Run At Museum Of Jewish Heritage
A train car that shuttled Jews from ghettoes to concentration camps, artifacts from Anne Frank’s secret annex and a shofar that was blown at Auschwitz — all of these objects are now on view at New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. You now have more time to see them….
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Culture Yiddish ‘Fiddler’ Will Close In The New Year – Here’s All Of The Forward’s Coverage Of The Groundbreaking Revival
After an 18-month run split between Battery Park and Off-Broadway, the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s Yiddish production of “Fiddler on the Roof” will take its final bow on January 5, 2020. But the show’s departure should be cause for celebration. Like the Hanukkah oil, the show’s footlights burned longer than anyone anticipated, with the award-winning…
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Culture A Year After The Tree Of Life Shooting, Pictures Of Survivors Urge Pittsburgh To Remember
On October 17, 60 oversized images of Holocaust survivors appeared alongside walking paths in and around the University of Pittsburgh campus. The images, eight-by-five-foot photographs printed on weatherproof canvas, are part of Luigi Toscano’s exhibition “Lest We Forget,” an effort the German-Italian artist began in 2014. That year, Toscano set out to interview survivors and…
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Culture Iran Banned From Judo Competition Unless It Agrees To Fight Israel
Iran’s refusal to face Israeli judo competitors cost the country its chance to compete with the sport’s official federation. On Tuesday, the International Judo Federation (IJF) barred the Islamic republic following a provisional ban issued last month. The initial ban resulted from an investigation into athlete, Saeid Mollaei, said to have thrown an August 28…
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Culture Why In The World Is Mike Pompeo Referencing Bob Dylan?
While speaking to the Heritage Foundation’s President’s Club today , Secretary of State Mike Pompeo let the world know he is a Bob Dylan fan — although maybe not the kind who listens for the lyrics. “It’s great to be here,” Pompeo said, expressing relief to be among the members of a conservative think tank…
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Culture Did Trump Just Give A Jewish Astronaut The Finger?
Jewish astronaut Jessica Meir was busy walking outside of the International Space Station Friday afternoon as part of the first all-female spacewalk, but that didn’t stop her from giving President Trump a live fact check. Some believe the commander in chief’s response was a good old fashioned one-finger salute. “We’re thrilled to be speaking live…
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