PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at [email protected] and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
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Fast Forward Sarah Silverman doesn’t have a problem with BDS – under these conditions
In a Jan. 9 post to Instagram, comedian Sarah Silverman made clear her position on the BDS movement: She is “down with it,” so long as it is protesting Israel’s government and its support of the occupation, and not Israelis themselves. “It’s not antisemitism to criticize a government,” Silverman said. “I’m fine with BDS as…
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Culture For his final ‘Jeopardy!’ a farewell to Alex Trebek
I definitely knew Will Ferrell’s impersonation of Alex Trebek before I knew the man himself. It was not a good imitation. Playing the longtime “Jeopardy!” host on “SNL,” Ferrell was piqued and perennially at his wit’s end over the regular haranguing of Darrell Hammond’s Sean Connery and the confounding idiocy of other celebrity contestants. Asking…
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Fast Forward Fact Check: The ‘6 Million Wasn’t Enough’ shirt wasn’t from the Capitol siege
On a Jan. 7 episode of MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell,” the anchor condemned some of the antisemitic fashion choices seen on the National Mall the day rioters stormed the Capitol, including the infamous “Camp Auschwitz” hoodie. But one of the images he used, and that was widely shared on Twitter, was not…
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Culture Musician Ariel Pink slammed for attending D.C. pro-Trump protests
Musician Ariel Pink upset fans by confirming his attendance at the pro-Trump protests on Jan. 6, the same day a mob, encouraged by the president to march to the Capitol, stormed the Capitol building Filmmaker Alex Lee Moyer posted a photo of Pink, 42, who was born Ariel Marcus Rosenberg, alongside songwriter John Maus in…
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Culture ‘Pieces of a Woman’ sorts through remnants of a Holocaust legacy
“Pieces of a Woman” is a ghost story. Following an agonizing birth scene, where the baby doesn’t make it, remnants of the child’s life — or reminders of her absence — survive. The mother, Martha, wears postpartum diapers to the office and cools her sore breasts at home with frozen peas. Framed sonograms hang on…
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Culture How science fiction warned us about the Capitol siege
Toward the end of “Logan’s Run,” Michael York and Jenny Agutter, escaping from a future society that murders people when they turn 30, enter an ivy-strangled rotunda and are soon amazed. Hearing a noise in the ostensibly empty building, York reaches down and pries off the arm of a chair on the ground. Slowly, he…
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Fast Forward Chuck Schumer calls Capitol attack ‘Trump’s doing’
Before the Senate resumed its certification of the 2020 election, a process delayed hours by a crowd of pro-Trump protestors storming the Capitol, Sen. Chuck Schumer made his first speech as the presumptive majority leader, laying the blame for the siege at Trump’s feet. “This will be a stain on our country not so easily…
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News ‘We knew this day was coming’: Jews react to storming of Capitol building
They compared the scene at the Capitol to the violent regimes their parents fled. They condemned President Trump’s half-hearted response as his supporters stormed congressional offices. They posted jarring photographs of Confederate flags flying in the halls of America’s most important government building, concluding grimly that “the Civil War isn’t over.” Jewish leaders, writers and…
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