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 RBG Attended An Amos Oz Commemoration In DC
On the afternoon of March 31, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made a rare public appearance at the Temple Sinai synagogue in Washington, DC to pay her respects to Israeli author Amos Oz, who died of cancer in December at the age of 79. Ginsburg, who has been keeping a low profile since undergoing…
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Life The Top 20 Jewish Comedians Of The Trump Era
Every day this week we’ll be highlighting classic and cutting-edge Jewish comedy, from the best Jewish memes to the best jokes about Jews by non-Jews. L’chaim! It’s a strange time in comedy when world events feel increasingly absurd, but, like…not in a fun way. Comedians can help us contextualize the absurdity. Or they can be…
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Culture Is This High School Student’s Drawing Anti-Semitic Or Progressive?
An artwork displayed last week at Northern Virginia Community College’s Ernst Community Cultural Center in Annandale, Virginia drew condemnation from a local rabbi for anti-Semitism. The picture, which has since been removed, was drawn by a 17-year-old high school student and depicts a squint-eyed man with a hooknose, sidelocks and kippah standing near a well…
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Music Judge Dismisses All But One Of James Levine’s Defamation Claims In Met Case
It’s been a year since the Metropolitan Opera fired conductor James Levine, its longtime music director, following allegations of sexual abuse. In short order, Levine sued the Met for breach of contract and defamation. On Tuesday, March 26, Justice Andrea Masley of the New York State Supreme Court moved to dismiss all but one of…
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Culture ‘WALL’ Falls Too Much To One Side
“A country has reached a point at which 84% of its people are in favor of a wall along its borders,” writer David Hare tells us in the opening minutes of the 2017 animated film, “WALL,” which begins a week-long run at New York’s Film Forum April 3-9 as part of the theater’s admission-free week….
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Art As Sacklers Settle Opioid Lawsuit, Museums Cut Philanthropic Ties
Last week, in a sea change for the world of art philanthropy, three major museums decided to reject donations from the Sackler family. The museums, which announced their decisions over the course of three days, are the London-based National Portrait Gallery and Tate galleries and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Yesterday, the…
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Culture B-Movie Auteur Larry Cohen Dies At 77
Larry Cohen’s script for “Phone Booth” was dreamed up in the 1960s, filmed in less than two weeks in 2000 on a budget of $13 million and released in 2003 just before its premise – about a guy trapped in a phone booth – collapsed into period conceit with the mass extinction of pay phones….
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Film & TV ‘Us’ Gives Viewers A Biblical Warning
Jordan Peele’s second film, “Us,” all but demands a second viewing. The box-office-breaking horror flick, while light on its feet, is packed with pop culture signposts, character pay-offs and a script-flipping twist that has audiences lining up for a later showing before the lights come up on the end credits. But one reference that may…
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