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Name all the Jewish personalities you know
Bob Dylon
Rush Limbaugh
Michael Savage
Mark Levin
Eric Cantor
Sheldon Adelson
Larry King
Jon Stuart
Anthony Weiner
Michael Bloomberg
Joe Lieberman
Mark Zuckerberg
Judge Judy
Henry Kissinger
Natalie Portman
Steven Spielberg
Elliot Spitzer
I think Jackie Mason might be Jewish, though I’m not sure.
Jackie Mason is indeed Jewish.
Rush Limbaugh is not Jewish, despite the admiration, love, and respect many frum Jews show towards him.
Paul Newman, a”h
Billy Joel
Jerry Orbach, a”h
I didn’t know Limbaugh was Jewish.
Someone told me that Bloomberg’s not, but I haven’t been able to confirm.
Bloombergs mother is jewish, but his daughters and his current companion are not
Adam Sandler (funny observation, Jews are funny! So many comedians are Jews. So many of our speakers are funny…)
Caspar Weinberger, sadly.
I’ve heard doubts about Weiner.
Wait why are we just being proud of all the not frum ones?
What about our awesomely famous and incredible gedollim to be proud of?
Bloombergs mother is jewish
What I heard is that her father was, but not her mother. Again, just something I heard without confirming.
There have been plenty of Jewish athletes:
Sandy Koufax
Hank Greenberg
Ike Davis (mother is Jewish, father is not)
Shawn Green
Kevin Youkilis
Caspar Weinberger was not Jewish (his mother was Christian).
I have never heard or seen any evidence that Rush Limbaugh is Jewish. Does anyone have a source for that?
Other famous Jews:
Al Franken
Daniel Radcliffe (his mother’s a Jew)
Mel Brooks
Sacha Baron-Cohen
I really prefer the “Personalities” who tried to avoid celebrity status, whose lives were about living for Hashem and being models for the rest of us:
Moshe Rabbeinu
Aharon HaKohen
Yehuda HaNasi
Rav Ashi: Redactor of the Gemara
The Vilna Gaon
The Chofetz Chaim
The Chazon Ish
Rav Steinaman, Shlita
Moshe Feinstein, Z’TL
Rov Elyashiv, Z’TL
Rov Kanievski
Just several that I thought of that way outdo any “contemporary personalities” who claim to represent some lofty notions of government, but feed their own egos in the process.
Wait why are we just being proud of all the not frum ones?
I don’t know if it’s pride. I know some people are proud of the fact that Ike Davis (for example) is Jewish, but even someone who’s not proud of it (e.g. yours truly) can find it a matter of mild interest.
In the winter Olympics of 2010, all three female figure skating representatives from the US were jewish:
Sasha Cohen
Kimmie Meissner
Emily Hughes
I’m not great at spelling, so I hope I spelled their names right.
“Jackie Mason is indeed Jewish.”
Not only is Jackie Mason Jewish, he has semicha and worked as a rabbi for a few years before becoming a comedian.
Jackie Mason also supported his nephew (now a Rosh Kollel) through yeshiva.
Madeleine Albright is Jewish, and I believe John Kerry has some Jewish ancestry.
just goes to show you that smicha can mean nothing. the man is married to a non jewess. thats bad.
Rush Limbaugh is officially Christain, but his mother is Jewish.
Do you have a source for that? His mother’s last name was Armstrong, which is not a name that is associated with being Jewish.
The Wolf
Adam Sandler
OJ Simpson… not a Jew!
(sorry, couldn’t resist)
The Wolf
Kevin Youkilis
In Moneyball, Billy Beane refers to him as “Eucilus, the Greek god of walks.” 🙂
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yawn
Amanda Bynes lol
Jackie Mason’s brother, Rabbi Maza, performed my nephew’s bris. It was a show; not a pleasant experience at all, but not my choice. All three of his brothers were/are Rabbonim.
i read somewhere on this site (i can’t remember which thread) about a rumour that elvis presley was jewish. can someone confirm that pls? is it true?
tzaddiq: According to Wikipedia, his mother was Scots-Irish, with some French Norman. It also says this:
According to a third cousin of Presley’s, one of Gladys’s great-grandmothers was Jewish. There is no evidence that Presley or his mother shared this belief in a Jewish heritage. Syndicated columnist Nate Bloom has challenged the cousin’s account, which he calls a “tall tale”.
His mother’s last name was Armstrong, which is not a name that is associated with being Jewish.
armstrong= yad chazaka sounds Jewish to me 🙂
Krusty the Clown.
Abraham Lincoln was Jewish. Was shot in the temple.
Thomas Friedman
PBT we are in the same boat 🙂
Somehow my gedollim thread didnt really take off thoigh
Krusty the Clowns father is Jackie Mason
just goes to show you that smicha can mean nothing. the man is married to a non jewess. thats bad.
And neither Gweneth Patrow and Gabrielle Gifford are Jewish, yet they are decended from the Taz and 33 generations of Rabbanic Dynasties (Paltrovich), Goes to show that Yrusha means nothing either
Orbach and Newman’s mothers weren’t Jewish. Same thing with Harrison Ford and Michael Landon and Michael Douglas
“Yrusha means nothing “
There are whole ?????? in ???? and poskim about ?????, yet you say it’s nothing. Is that your general attitude about ?????
Besides, what do Patrow (sic) and Giffords have to do with ?????? They are probably not ??????, ?????. What was the point of mentioning them?
Also see ???? ???????, ??? ??.
nisht- have a shot. he probably meant yichus.
Toi,
Notice the last reference.
People still carry on zera yisrael, even when the lack of a halakhic Jewish mother precludes kedushat yisrael from being passed on.
Rabbi Maza O”H had a bracha under my son’s chuppah. He looked SO much like his brother Jackie, that it was very startling to be standing under the chuppah with him there. I am not certain Paul Newman’s mother was Jewish, and Anthony Weiner’s mom was Italian, I believe.
People still carry on zera yisrael, even when the lack of a halakhic Jewish mother precludes kedushat yisrael from being passed on.
Can I get a source for that?
Maurice Sendak
Neil Gaiman
Cynthia Ozick
Isaac Israels
Isaac Levitan
Emma Lazarus
Joseph Heller
Ayn Rand
Franz Kafka
albert einstein
daniel radcliff- i miss you harry potter!
Sources for zera yisrael: R’ Haim Amsellem’s Sefer Zera Yisrael; Shut Mishpetei Uziel EH 13:5; R’ Tzvi Hirsch Kalischer, Drishat Tzion (don’t have the text al yad).
I’ve heard speculation that Elvis Presley and Abe Lincoln were descended from Melungeons, who supposedly have Jewish ancestry.
Natalie Portman
Scarlett Johansson
Ian Kinsler
Kevin Youkilis
Bob Marley (Father Jewish)
David Lee Roth
David Drayman
Bob Dylan
Crusty The Clown
Rumors of Elvis Presley’s supposed Jewish heritage are just that– rumors. As a teenager, he was in fact a shabbos goy for a frum family that lived in his building.
I hear that R’ Alfred Fruchter, zt”l and his rebbetzin, a”h were quite fond of him.
Elvis was a Shabbos goy not because he was non-Jewish, but because he didn’t know what it meant to be halachically Jewish. According to what I’ve read, he knew he had Jewish ancestry and identified with it, but people he knew in the recording industry were afraid to tell him that since the ancestry was from his maternal line (I think it was his mother’s mother’s mother or something like that) that meant he was Jewish. They were afraid that if he knew he would become a practicing Jew and that that would hurt his career. It may not have been definitively proven but one of his biographers writes that his mother’s mother mother or whatever was Jewish. Some Chabadniks made a film about Elvis’s Jewishness a few years ago (which I haven’t seen).
Bob Dylan periodically shows up to Orthodox shuls (often Chabad) in random locations on Yom Kippur (and perhaps other holidays or on Shabbos — I don’t know). People usually figure out who is he and give him an aliyah.
Orbach and Newman’s mothers weren’t Jewish. Same thing with Harrison Ford and Michael Landon and Michael Douglas
Harrison Ford’s mother was Jewish but his father wasn’t. At least according to my aunt who lived a few houses down from them. And according to Wikipedia. 🙂
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