Commentary: My rom-com with Ukraine's president
"Did you know you acted alongside the newly elected president of Ukraine?" my brother texted me recently. He included a screenshot of Volodymyr Zelensky's IMDB page.
"Who me?" I wrote back, with the perplexed hands-up emoji, which every mom I knew used in her text communications.
That's what I am now, simply "Mom," the perpetually perplexed emoji. A decade ago, though, I was an aspiring star - head shots, managers and all.
My family came to New York as Soviet Jewish refugees when
