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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Film & TV Bernstein, Oppenheimer and Barbie lead off a Jew-ish list of 2024 Golden Globe nominees
The awards show is big on Jewish titans who shaped the world, in music, plastic and nuclear physics
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Film & TV Why Ryan O’Neal could make you laugh in (not at) his underwear
The late actor’s style was divisive, but often delivered exactly what was needed
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Film & TV ‘The Zone of Interest’ asks: Why would a family want to live at Auschwitz?
Jonathan Glazer’s masterpiece follows the life of Nazi Commandant Rudolf Höss
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Film & TV Norman Lear’s early experience of antisemitism made him America’s conscience
The ‘All in the Family’ and ‘Jeffersons’ producer died at 101
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Film & TV In Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s ‘The Curse,’ chicken, conversions and a deeply complicated American atonement
The Showtime series is a deeply Jewish reflection on America’s original sins
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Film & TV Does ‘The Artful Dodger’ finally fix the Fagin problem?
How a new take on ‘Oliver Twist’ finds its Jewish villain in a church
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Film & TV Susan Sarandon dropped. A ‘Scream’ queen let go. Calling Israel’s actions ‘genocide’ is costing people Hollywood jobs
Comments dubbed antisemitic have prompted shake-ups in Hollywood
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The Folksbiene’s ‘Amid Falling Walls’ is a grand showcase that’s often hard to follow
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