PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at grisar@forward.com and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
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Theater What Ben Platt learned reading Leo Frank’s letters
Paying a visit to YIVO, the ‘Parade’ star comes face to face with history
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Music Connor Roy’s Leonard Cohen moment was peak ‘Succession’
The Prince of Bummers and failed Princeling were a match made in depressive heaven
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Music A new album blends klezmer and American folk — and is at home in both
‘In Der Heym/Down Home’ shows how two musical styles have a lot in common
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Culture Why Maimonides is the ideal mind for surviving the era of Fake News
Alberto Manguel’s Jewish Lives book on Rambam reveals a thinker guided by reason
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Film & TV ‘I’m always telling the story of Exodus’: ‘Unorthodox’ creator Anna Winger on her new Netflix show
‘Transatlantic’ chronicles an effort to save artists and thinkers from Nazi Europe
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Culture Can ChatGPT answer The Four Questions?
I gave the AI program our usual Passover queries — here’s what happened
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Culture ‘Extrapolations’ gives us an amazing Black rabbi (and a lot of embarrassing white Jews)
Daveed Diggs’ performance moves the Jewish story forward, but tired tropes hold the show back
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Film & TV What does Adam Sandler’s Mark Twain Prize say about (Jewish) American humor?
Adam Sandler may be the least Jewish comic to win the award
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