PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at [email protected] and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
PJ Grisar
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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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Culture Danny Elfman drops his first solo song in 36 years — of course it’s spooky
Danny Elfman, the Pumpkin King himself, has released his first solo song in 36 years. He’s been saving up a whole lot of eerie energy. In a statement, the perennial Tim Burton film scorer said he originally wrote the new track, “Happy,” for Coachella 2020 as an “absurd anti-pop song, designed to begin as a…
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Culture 9 spooky, Jew-y films to watch for Halloween (8 of which aren’t ‘Hubie Halloween’)
Craving spooky, scary, Jewish viewing for Halloween? We've got you covered
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Culture Joe Klein has harsh words for Miles Taylor, a very different ‘Anonymous’
Before Miles Taylor, there was Joe Klein. Klein was a reporter at Newsweek when he anonymously published “Primary Colors,” a bestselling roman à clef informed by his coverage of the 1992 Bill Clinton presidential campaign. In the summer of 1996 — after months of denial — Klein admitted he was, in fact, Anonymous. So, what…
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Culture Michael Cohen is on Cameo — here’s what you should make him say
After years of following the every whim of Donald Trump, the man who served as consigliere and pit bull attorney to the president, then called him a racist before Congress, is prepared to say whatever you want him to — for the price of $100. Yes, Michael Cohen has a Cameo. For the uninitiated, Cameo…
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Culture The true grit of the Jews who fought by John Brown’s side
August Bondi, Theodore Wiener and Jacob Benjamin helped the abolitionist cause
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Culture How ‘Borat’ got its sound — an interview with Erran Baron Cohen
Growing up, Erran Baron Cohen and his younger brother, Sacha, would entertain their parents’ guests during Shabbos at their home in London. “Me and Sacha were often quite bored actually,” Baron Cohen said. “We used to make up funny songs on the piano for our own amusement. One was called ‘Schvitzin”, which was about Jews…
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