PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at [email protected] and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
PJ Grisar
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Film & TV How the Forward got a cameo in ‘Marty Supreme’
Production designer Jack Fisk said this bit of decoration paid homage to the past, and solved a modern-day headache
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Film & TV ‘Marty Supreme’ is an outstanding celebration — and indictment — of chutzpah
Josh Safdie's period epic sees Timothée Chalamet vying for ping-pong supremacy
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Theater The Jewish playwright who inspired Tom Stoppard to write his Holocaust history
Arthur Schnitzler’s Austria was a major influence on ‘Leopoldstadt’
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Film & TV Israel’s 2025 Oscar entry is a story of grief, sex and looming national tragedy
Tom Nesher’s ‘Come Closer’ is premiering in New York
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Film & TV The ‘Wicked’ Munchkins seem pretty Jewish this time around
The musical sequel recalls Nuremberg Laws in a scene added for the film
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Film & TV In ‘31 Candles,’ a manchild becomes bar mitzvah to court his crush
The rom-com is a messy meditation on American Jewry
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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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