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 Can a drama about the Yom Kippur War heal a divided Israel?
On Yom Kippur 1973, a 7-year-old Yaron Zilberman was roused not by shofar calls, but air raid sirens. “I got confused,” said Zilberman, who believed the clamor had something to do with the holiday. “Of course you don’t have any sirens on Yom Kippur — for Veterans Day or Yom HaZikaron you’d commemorate all the…
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Culture 6 films that predicted the 2020 Election
There is every reason for us to fear the movies that will inevitably be made about the 2020 election. The early crop of Trump entertainment, from the bloated, neoliberal hagiography of “The Comey Rule” to whatever the hell this is does not exactly set a high bar in cinematic history. At a time like this…
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Culture Ari Melber quotes Drake as we look away in horror
As with any historic election, many of us are now taking stock of where we are, or will be, when the final vote is counted. (Probably, like most of the country, we’ll be at home.) But long after Trump or Biden hits the magic number of 270, I will still be reeling from a less…
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Culture Paula White’s wild Trump sermon is begging for the Steve Reich treatment
Whatever you think of her views on religion, we can agree that yesterday, evangelical adviser to the president Paula White produced a most prodigious bop. At a prayer service for the reelection of President Trump, the man she won over with her teachings of “Prosperity Theology,” White delivered an impassioned sermon heavy on rhythmic repetition,…
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Culture What King Solomon, Gwyneth Paltrow and other Jewish luminaries taught us about the 2020 election
If you’re anything like us, you spent last night toggling between cable TV, the infamous New York Times election needle and supposedly “soothing” Netflix picks, all while clutching the pint of ice cream you’d intended to save for the inevitable post-election civil strife. As it became clear that election night was becoming election week, we…
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Culture I watched 6 hours of election coverage – I hope you didn’t
On November 8, 2016, I voted in the morning, then spent the early afternoon into the late evening in a bar in the West Village. I was in my first semester of journalism school and reporting a none-too-astute trend story about watering holes showing — and courting patrons with — broadcasts of non-sports-related content. “Game…
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Culture 10 Twitter users who’ll help you survive election night
Even with a pandemic, where the calendar pages melt like something out of a Dalí painting, you surely know today is the first Tuesday in November — and all that goes along with that. Some people are abjuring the slow churn of results to return to Jewish ritual. Many will be glued to their news…
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Culture Max Rose and Nicole Malliotakis’ campaign ads tell an ugly love story
I have never lived in New York’s 11th Congressional District, and yet I know that its incumbent congressman, Rep. Max Rose, is a hypocrite who has “betrayed the Blue.” I know this because his challenger, Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis — a “first-class fraud” who has profited off of the opioid crisis — told me so. I…
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