PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at [email protected] and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
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Culture In a young boy’s diary, a record of how Jews lived to the fullest, even in the face of death
YIVO’s new online exhibition tells the story of cultural life in the Vilna ghetto
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Politics Trump’s bacon remark wasn’t kosher, but it may be right
Lamenting the America of old, Trump recently pointed to the jacked up price of a popular pork product
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Politics Moses needed Aaron to communicate. Biden could have used him in debate.
The president, going against Trump, had a failure to communicate
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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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