Love Is All Around …

by | Jul 26, 2021 | Blog

The Mary Tyler Moore Show and office families What ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ taught me about the life and death of the office family (click to read article on Index)

The Myth Turns Out to Be True

by | Sep 16, 2019 | Blog

In case anyone doubted that Buddy Hackett got his start at my family’s hotel, here’s a photo my cousin Marsha posted a few days ago … her father, my great-uncle Joe, with Buddy himself, location and date unknown. To tell the truth, even I doubted the...

(Not) Guilty about Loving Shtisel

by | Apr 9, 2019 | Blog

Growing up as a semi-Orthodox Jew in the heart of the Jewish Catskills, I regarded ultra-Orthodox and Hasidic Jews as the enemy. I worried my gentile friends would see these wildly bearded men in their long black coats, furry black hats, and curly peyes, or these...