Widely known as the writer of 70s classics like “All in the Family,” “The Jeffersons,” “Maude,” and “Sanford and Sons,” Norman Lear was also a proud Jew and WWII US Air Force Pilot. As a writer, Lear would push the envelope to portray the issues and struggles that many Americans were facing — not the perfect life that most media portrayed at the time. All in the Family featured Black and Jewish characters, which was extremely rare during that era of television. A 1973 episode was even centered a