Norman Lear

Why I miss Norman Lear

By Jeffrey Salkin — December 7, 2023
(RNS) — A television producer, director, cultural hero — and a religious thinker.

Norman Lear, Jewish thinker

By Jeffrey Salkin — July 28, 2022
(RNS) — Norman Lear understood Jewish values, perhaps even more than he recognized.

Watching the rise of the religious left on 1970s TV

By Jack Jenkins — July 10, 2019
(RNS) — In a new book, religion scholar L. Benjamin Rolsky looks at the history of the religious left from the unusual perspective of 'All in the Family' and its creator, Norman Lear.
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