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 In the most talked-about Epstein File exchange, a lesson in Yiddish
When speaking of Donald Trump’s travails, Epstein invoked ‘tsuris’
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Looking Forward So, there was a swastika at my Airbnb
The way Indians handle the Nazi appropriation of a sacred symbol could be a lesson for Jews
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Film & TV The cheesy way to do teshuvah
‘The Big Cheese’ follows an American team vying for dairy gold in Europe
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Film & TV Is ‘Nuremberg’ the Holocaust movie we need right now?
A new film focuses on the relationship between Hermann Goering and his psychiatrist, Douglass Kelley
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Film & TV ‘Eid,’ the first Israeli feature directed by a Bedouin, is a heartfelt portrait of an artist
Yousef Abo Madegem’s film is an intimate glimpse at an oft-overlooked segment of Israel
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Film & TV Israel’s Oscar entry is, once again, about Palestinians
Shai Carmeli-Pollak’s ‘The Sea’ swept the Ophirs and irked Israel’s Ministry of Culture
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Books John Irving always felt like an outsider — is that all he thinks there is to Jewishness?
'Queen Esther,’ the author’s pseudo-sequel to ‘Cider House Rules,’ is a warped reading of the People of the Book
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Culture Was the ‘Yiddish Sherlock Holmes’ the first Jewish superhero?
Detective Max Spitzkopf, now in English translation, gave Jews of the 20th century an avenger of their own
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