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PJ Grisar is the Forward’s culture reporter. He can be reached at [email protected].

Emily Blunt in "Disclosure Day." (Courtesy of Universal Pictures)
Posted inFilm

In ‘Disclosure Day,’ Spielberg is at odds with Jewish thought about aliens

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar June 18, 2026June 18, 2026

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Steven Spielberg is in his aliens exist era — […]

Michael Tilson Thomas conducting a rehearsal of the San Francisco Symphony (Photo/Art Streiber-Courtesy S.F. Symphony)
Posted inObituaries

Maestro Michael Tilson Thomas, celebrated conductor of S.F. Symphony, dies at 81

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar April 23, 2026April 23, 2026
The raucous world of "Yes" is unsparing in its satire of a country partying near the abyss. (Courtesy of Kino Lorber)
Posted inFilm

An Israeli dissident filmmaker finds tainted love amid the Gaza rubble

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar April 10, 2026April 10, 2026
Rami Malek as Douglass Kelley and Russell Crowe as Hermann Goering. (Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)
Posted inFilm

Is ‘Nuremberg’ the Holocaust movie we need right now?

Mira FoxPJ Grisar by Mira Fox, PJ Grisar and Olivia Haynie November 13, 2025November 13, 2025
Spitzkopf book cover
Posted inBooks

Was the ‘Yiddish Sherlock Holmes’ the first Jewish superhero?

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar October 29, 2025October 29, 2025
Nazi loyalists in Mecklenburg, Germany read news about the upcoming parliamentary elections, summer 1932. A campaign poster for Hitler is at rear. (German Federal Archives/Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inTV

‘Heil Honey, I’m Home!’ — the scandalous Hitler sitcom you never saw

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar September 30, 2025September 30, 2025
Still from “Long Story Short.”
Posted inTV

‘BoJack Horseman’ creator on his new, ‘unapologetically Jewish’ family affair

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar August 15, 2025December 29, 2025
Art Spiegelman in "Disaster is my Muse." (Courtesy of Zipatone)
Posted inFilm

New documentary tells how MAD magazine, family ghosts and censorship made Art Spiegelman an anti-fascist artist

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar February 20, 2025February 21, 2025
Brady Corbet’s film "The Brutalist" explores the odious and corrupt world of capital, ego and power which overwhelms an architect’s resources. (Focus Features)
Posted inFilm

The Oscar race: Bob Dylan and László Tóth face the limits of Jewish reinvention

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar February 5, 2025February 5, 2025
A bronze statue of Columbus
Posted inOpinion

Columbus may have had Jewish heritage — that doesn’t mean he was Jewish

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar October 14, 2024October 14, 2024

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