PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at grisar@forward.com and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
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By PJ Grisar
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Culture The year was 1897. Here’s what Jews were doing.
125 years ago, the Forverts entered a vibrant Jewish world
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Culture A.J. Jacobs on Jews, puzzles and how Sondheim changed American crosswords forever
The 'Puzzler' author shares his Wordle insights - and his puzzle collection.
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Film & TV In ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 6, Jimmy cries antisemitism at a country club
It was an angle he never worked - cause only Saul Goodman could.
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Culture Barry Manilow gives us harmony and Hebrew in a sometimes hammy musical
If “Memory” wasn’t already a marquee name in showtunes, Barry Manilow probably would have used the title for a song in his new musical. Now playing at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, “Harmony,” about the Comedian Harmonists, a sextet of German singer-comedians, is also all about memory – both history’s short recall for a popular…
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Culture Gilbert Gottfried, an iconic and inimitable comedic voice, dies at 67
Gilbert Gottfried, the onetime voice of the Aflac duck, the “Aladdin” parrot Iago and the filthiest roaster on any dais, has died at the age of 67. On the comedian’s Twitter page, Gottfried’s family announced that he had passed after a long illness. pic.twitter.com/STHhfpVSKU — Gilbert Gottfried (@RealGilbert) April 12, 2022 Known for his adenoidal…
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Culture Moon Knight’s Star of David necklace was easy to miss. It was also a watershed moment for Marvel.
Amid a blur of hieroglyphs, ankhs and sarcophagi, it was easy to miss a more subtle symbol glinting from Oscar Isaac’s neck in last week’s installment of “Moon Knight.” Unless you happen to be Jewish and watching for signs of Jewish life. In the final minutes of the episode, Isaac’s Marc Spector wakes up in…
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Culture Cartoonist Liana Finck on rewriting Genesis, God as a woman and why Abraham feels like a Philip Roth character
In Liana Finck’s Book of Genesis, Lilith is the Serpent, Joseph wears a merman tail and God is a woman. The New Yorker cartoonist’s latest graphic novel, “Let There Be Light: The Real Story of Her Creation,” envisages the Almighty as a work in progress. She is lonely, so She creates people. In a moment…
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Culture Leonard Cohen changed Israel during the Yom Kippur War. Did it change him?
In October of 1973, Israel was fighting the Yom Kippur War with Egypt and Syria and Leonard Cohen decided to visit. His exact reasons have long been a mystery. Hearing him clarify them, you may wish they’d stayed that way. In an unpublished manuscript, the 39-year-old poet wrote he “wanted to go fight and die…
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