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 I watched 6 Christian Purim movies so you wouldn’t have to
Esther's story is a very Jewish one, but Christians have made more movies about it
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Culture ‘History of the World, Part II’ is a Mel Brooks comedy without much Mel Brooks — and that’s a good thing
The star-studded Hulu series has a Brooksian sensibility, but fresher jokes
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Film & TV The greatest film about France in World War II is also a blistering critique of filmmaking
Marcel Ophüls’ ‘The Sorrow and the Pity’ lays bear the horrors (and delights) of its own medium
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Culture YIVO to digitize millions of documents from Jewish Labor Bund
The effort will make countless artifacts available for the first time
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Books Roald Dahl said terrible things — but rarely in his children’s books
The author’s work is undergoing a reported rewrite for inclusion. It’s his antisemitism that ought to be examined.
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Fast Forward Richard Belzer, comedian and Jewish TV cop for all seasons, dies at 78
Belzer played the character of John Munch in ‘Homicide: Life on the Street,’ ‘The X-Files’ and ‘Law & Order: SVU’
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Culture On ‘Seinfeld,’ Raquel Welch wasn’t afraid to make fun of herself
The sex symbol had one of the sitcom’s more memorable cameos
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Music How one of the giants of jazz composed a hymn for Black-Jewish unity
Dave Brubeck's 1969 opus ‘Gates of Justice’ is on its way to UCLA
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