PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at [email protected] and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
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Theater He was Germany’s most popular playwright — here’s why you may not have heard of him
Jewish writer Ernst Toller lived the radical ideals he expressed in his plays
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Art Why’s a microwave baking matzo? And why does that 400-year-old menorah have a lightbulb?
Artist Mark Podwal's woodcuts bring a fresh take on 16th century images to Eldridge Street
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Film & TV Elon Musk doesn’t understand George Soros — or Magneto — but he’s great at antisemitism
On Twitter, Musk compared two very different Holocaust survivors
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Fast Forward George Santos: ‘You sit in a room with a lot of Jews, you’re f—ed’
In new audio, George Santos imitates his district’s Jews
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Film & TV A new Nazi revenge film from Finland is called ‘Sisu’ – is that Finnish for ‘chutzpah’?
The movie glosses over Finland’s complicated World War II history — but that shouldn’t keep you away
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Theater Yes, Richard Dreyfuss, a Jewish actor can play Othello — just not you
Dreyfuss’ remarks on casting prove he needs to brush up his Shakespeare
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Film & TV Investigation: How Midge Maisel and Philip Roth’s wedding ended before the altar
What would the courtship of the prickly novelist and the comedian yield?
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Film & TV Speaking of ‘White House Plumbers,’ have you seen this Jewish Watergate werewolf movie?
‘Werewolf of Washington’ imagined the Nixon administration beset by a lycanthrope
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