Today Cuba is in the news for resuming diplomatic relations with the United States after a four-decade Cold War freeze. But it was a very different place in 1942, when Reuben and Isabel Schiller first fell in love. “She didn’t understand English and I couldn’t speak Spanish. So we conversed in Yiddish!” says the […]
A current exhibit at New York City’s Jewish Museum exploring anti-Semitism through pop culture, entitled The Television Project: Some of My Best Friends, borrows its name from that classic lead-up to inevitable prejudice: “Some of my best friends are ___, but…” It’s also an allusion to season 2, episode 23 of The Mary Tyler Moore […]