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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Culture Olivia Wilde’s ‘special salad dressing’ came from Nora Ephron’s novel about adultery
The director shared a screenshot of 'Heartburn' with the recipe
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Fast Forward Candace Owens says no ‘honest person’ thought Kanye’s tweet was antisemitic
On her show, Owens seemed to suggest that anything short of calls for genocide may not qualify as antisemitism
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Film & TV ‘Amsterdam’ dreams of a Black-Jewish alliance, but doesn’t want to fight for it
David O. Russell's pseudo-history lesson downplays the effort needed to fight white supremacy
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Culture Mark Zuckerberg’s company marks Sukkot with a virtually empty virtual sukkah
You've never Meta sukkah like this
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Culture How Columbus brought America its first Jew
Luis de Torres was a refugee of faith –— and, in a way, America's first pilgrim
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Culture Did the head of the ADL just praise Elon Musk — by comparing him to a famous antisemite?
In a TV appearance, Jonathan Greenblatt called Musk the 'Henry Ford of our time'
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Culture The secret Jewish history of the Great Chicago Fire
The first person to claim responsibility for the blaze was a young gambler named Louis M. Cohn
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Theater In ‘Leopoldstadt,’ Tom Stoppard shows that there’s a difference between a Jew of culture and a cultural Jew
The playwright’s first reckoning with his Jewish past is too busy with history to engage in emotion
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