PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at [email protected] and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
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Culture Why Those Arrested Giuliani Associates Were Talking About Anatevka
The saga of the two Soviet-born associates of Rudy Giuliani, arrested last week for alleged campaign finance violations, has a head-scratching footnote connected to both Yiddishkeit and a classic American Broadway musical. As the news of the indictments of Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman spread, so did a video of the two men lounging with…
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Culture This Sukkot, This Artist Invited Superheroes To His Sukkah
Every Sukkot, families with sukkahs invite the spirits of the seven biblical matriarchs and patriarchs into their tent. These guests – or ushpizin – cut impressive figures. While we earthly chosen spend our time schmoozing outdoors, kvetching and noshing and pontificating on all manner of mundane things, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Rebekah, Leah and Rachel…
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Fast Forward Trump To Schiff: You Can’t Impeach Me, I’ll Impeach You! And Sue You!
On Saturday, President Donald Trump appeared before a crowd at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C. and let loose at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff. “Maybe we should just impeach them, because they’re lying and what they’re doing is a terrible thing for our country,” Trump said, according to…
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Fast Forward EXPLAINED: The Soviet Jews At The Center Of Trump, Giuliani’s Ukraine Obsession
Two Soviet-born, Florida-based men were indicted Thursday for suspicion of campaign finance violations, allegedly performed to benefit President Trump and his Republican allies and tied to a larger dirt-gathering campaign on his Democratic challenger Joe Biden and Biden’s son Hunter. The men, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, are known as Giuliani’s “Florida Fixers” by the…
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Culture Romania To Open Its First Holocaust Museum
On October 8, the eve of Yom Kippur, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis announced plans for the country’s first Holocaust museum. The announcement comes 16 years after Romania first acknowledged its role in the Shoah, following a decades-long cover-up under the communist regimes of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and his successor, Nicolae Ceaușescu. Many countries under the USSR…
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Fast Forward German Synagogue Shooter Thwarted By Recently Upgraded Security Door
On Yom Kippur, 51 congregants in a Halle synagogue watched the feed from security cameras as their would-be shooter tried to break down the door. He pushed it, fired a few rounds with his gun and even attached an explosive to the jamb. The heavy wooden door wouldn’t budge, CNN reported.. The door and the…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Lee Zeldin Takes On Adam Schiff For ‘Fairy Tale Quid Pro Quo’
Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) is emerging as one of Rep. Adam Schiff’s (D-CA) harshest critics as the latter pursues an impeachment inquiry against President Trump. it’s not a storybook kind. Though fairy tales have been invoked. On Tuesday at the Capitol, Zeldin accused Schiff, the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, of forwarding a “Fairy…
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Fast Forward ‘Trump’ Swastika Graffiti Found At Yale Law Campus During Days Of Awe
A white, spray-painted swastika appearing above the word “Trump” was found on the Yale Law School campus over the weekend an an act referred to as “utterly antithetical” to the school’s values. The graffiti, which, the Yale Daily News reports, was covered by noon on Sunday with black paint and a doormat, appears to have…
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