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 Army officer makes Holocaust joke on TikTok
TikTok, whatever your feelings on the security of its Chinese ownership, is a hub for creative content — much of it Jewish. But like any other platform, it’s also vulnerable to the contributions of the crass, misguided and offensively unfunny. On Monday, 2nd Lt. Nathan Freihofer, a popular TikTok user with nearly 3 million followers,…
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Culture 1200-year-old soap factory discovered in Israel
Archaeologists in the southern Israeli city of Rahat have discovered remains of a 1,200-year-old soap factory — complete with break room games. The Israel Antiquities Authority has determined that the factory is likely the oldest one ever found in the country, according to Atlas Obscura, and date it back to the early Islamic period during…
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Culture William Shatner sings the blues – we wish he wouldn’t
“Hubris,” the muse of music whispers each time William Shatner makes a new record. But will he not hear? Th 89-year-old actor, who has spent his quarantine attacking Twitter users who dare to call him a “cis” man, has a new album coming out October 2. This time he’s tackling that most doleful and soulful…
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Music Why Trump has to stop playing ‘God Bless America’ and ‘Hallelujah’
Leonard Cohen died, poetically enough, the day before early returns ushered in the era of Trump in America. That meant the lifelong Canadian national, who made his home in Los Angeles, was spared the Trump presidency. He didn’t have to endure Kate McKinnon’s cloyingly despairing rendition of his song “Hallelujah” performed in character as Hillary…
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Culture Playwright David Adjmi takes on a new role: Memoirist
On a sweltering day in New York, and a milder one in Los Angeles, David Adjmi moved our Facetime conversation up to his terrace and showed me the view: trees and white facades melting into the greenery of the Hollywood Hills. “Can you see it?” Adjmi asked. “Isn’t that pretty? This is why I like…
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Culture Mr. Kushner, your privilege is showing
Jared Kushner dunking on NBA players for being wealthy and entitled is about as rich as he is. In a morning interview with CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Kushner was asked for the White House’s take on plans by NBA players to boycott playoff games in protest over the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis….
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Culture Bill and Ted’s creators on ‘Face the Music’ and tikkun olam
The world changed in 1991. At the San Dimas Battle of the Bands, William S. Preston, Esq. and Theodore Logan, backed by Death on upright bass, two aliens on bongos and robot back-up-dancer doppelgangers united the world in song and changed the course of history forever. Or so we thought. For Ed Solomon and Chris…
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Culture Amar’e Stoudemire completes his conversion to Judaism
The Jews can always use a good power forward on our team. We now have a great one. Realizing a years-long process of study and engagement with Judaism, Amar’e Stoudemire, the former NBA player now dribbling for Maccabi Tel Aviv, made his final full-court press into the faith on August 26, 2020. Stoudemire announced the…
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