Remember when Eliot Spitzer was Governor of New York? The Jews loved him! And Ari Fleischer? Oy such naches - President Bush’s Press Secretary, a Jew (so what his boss is a moron)! And of course we all love Jon Stuart, the host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show. What about Sasha Baron Cohen? The Jews adored Borat! And yet… Spitzer never had a bar mitzvah and married out. Fleischer and Stuart and Cohen are also married to non-Jews. In fact, very few famous Jews, from the ones I already mentioned to Scarlett Johansen, Sarah Silverman, Amy Winehouse, Leonard Cohen, Norman Mailer, The Beastie Boys etc. are particularly, you know, Jewy. However, it seems that their fame more than makes up for it and we tend to uncritically embrace them as we would a warm knish after Yom Kippur. Unless of course they get caught ordering prostitutes, or they marry their ex-girlfriend’s children. Then we cry “Shanda Fur the Goyim!” But barring that… Jews sure do like famous Jews. What? What about Natalie Portman you ask? She speaks Hebrew so that makes her a better Jew than most of you. Now shush.
Famous Jews
April 8, 2008 · 4 Comments
Categories: SJPL
Tagged: amy winehouse, ari fleischer, borat, celebrity jews, jon stuart, sacha baron cohen, scarlett johnassen
4 responses so far ↓
raquel samper // April 13, 2008 at 10:49 am
im raquel samper jewish community murcia spain
most people arent aware that you can have a jip-its your computers ip but it tells others your a jew.you can activate it as we do here in murcia so wherever you go online ,commentmbrowse ,read you leave your jip your comuters IP but telling folks wwho look up IP that your jewish,proud and a member of the murcia spain jewish community.To activate your JIp just contact us at our webpage.
IP is for wimps!!
JIP is for true proud jews..
Esther Kustanowitz // April 16, 2008 at 8:49 pm
I don’t know if that JIP thing was for real, but it’s a decent idea…
Whoever’s behind this post should take a look at spellings of famous people’s names, because they’re almost all wrong. Sacha, not Sasha; Jon Stewart, not Stuart, and I have no idea how to spell Johanssen, but I doubt it’s “Johansen.”
Which brings me to something else that some Jewish people like, and other Jewish people pretend doesn’t exist: grammar.
And where’s Judd Apatow? Seth Rogen? Jason Segel? Woody Allen, ok, but a more contemporary example is completely possible in this era of Jews taking back comedy movies in a big way.
Joshua // May 16, 2008 at 12:51 am
To be fair, Baron Cohen’s fiancee did convert.
bebo // July 1, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Well obviously things that famous Jewish men like: shiksa
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