• Profile: The Cherokee

    http: //www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1258 The Cherokee join the The Japanese and The Spanish as our third entire people to be profiled. Notice the trend that none of these are actually Jews. Coming soon: the Eskimos, the Australian Aborigines, the hundreds of other Native American tribes, and the lost peoples of Atlantis. Read More »

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  • Profile: Curt Herzstark

    http: //www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1257 Now, obviously the conversation is fictional, but the gist is true: the Nazis kept Herzstark alive to give his calculator as a present to Hitler… Another excellent suggestion by Alex from Maryland. Read More »

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  • Profile: Yves Montand

    http: //www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1255 We’re sorry to disappoint one of our suggestion champs, Mila from Alexandria, as well as Pierre from Paris (of course!) and Jean from… Read More »

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  • Profile: Amanda Peet

    http: //www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1256 Decided to finally watch this after re-watching Woody’s Melinda and Melinda… A truly underrated film of his. Read More »

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  • Profile: Mark Herzlich

    http: //www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1254 We weren’t planning a Super Bowl post this year, but when it came out that the Giants’ Mark Herzlich has Jewish roots… it had to be done. Religion and prayer have long propelled the Herzlich family. Read More »

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  • Profile: Arm & Hammer

    http: //www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1252 Today’s profile, much like our previous inanimate object , comes from something my mother told me while I was growing up. And, much like the previous, she was wrong. Oh well… Read More »

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  • Profile: Daniel Pearl

    http: //www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1253 Suggestions from Mitchell from Lancaster, PA, Tovah from South Carolina, and Chana from South Carolina. Read More »

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  • Top 10 Profiles: January

    1. Ben Affleck (0)2. Julian Edelman (+54)3. Jesus Christ (-1)4. Mel Gibson (-1)5. Scarlett Johansson (-1)6. Adolf Hitler (-1)7. Sean Penn (+3)8. Charlie Chaplin (0)9. Sandra Bullock (-2)10. Read More »

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  • Profile: Michel Hazanavicius

    http: //www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1251 Hazanavicius is married to his film’s star, also Oscar-nominated, the lovely (but not Jewish), Berenice Bejo. Read More »

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  • Profile: Lorenzo Da Ponte

    http: //www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1250 Da Ponte also ran a grocery store… A true renaissance man! Suggestions from Ivan from Canton, MI and Mark from Washington. Read More »

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  • Profile: Richard Dreyfuss

    http: //www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1249 I have no idea why it took us so long to profile Dreyfuss… But one night, “Stakeout” was on cable, I decided to watch, and that’s all it took. Suggestions from Ann in California, Justin from Texas, and Ron from Vancouver. Read More »

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  • Just for the record

    The “Jewish Hoagie” at Old Nelson Food Co in Center City, Philadelphia. Verdict: Sadly, Not a Jew. I 2, O 4, K 3 Y’know, in case you were wondering… Read More »

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  • Profile: Frances Bay

    http: //www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1248 Ah, the marble rye… Read More »

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  • Profile: Christian Anfinsen

    http: //www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1247 Anfinsen was suggested by Yizhaq from Jerusalem and David from Highland Park, IL, who writes, “You are fond of noting that there are no Jews named ‘Christian’.” Well, we do have three Christophers and four Chrises … Read More »

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  • Profile: Robert Dover

    http: //www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1246 Roebrt got his first horse as a bar mitzvah present… Read More »

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  • Profile: Robots

    http: //www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1245 This is how robots looked in Capek’s 1920 play: Scary. Read More »

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  • Profile: Arnold Schoenberg

    http: //www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1243 The whole fear of 13 is kinda weird, considering he was BORN ON THE 13TH… Suggestions from Martha from London, Jonathan from Montreal, Igor from Brazil, and David from Hungary. Read More »

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  • Profile: Holy Ghost

    http: //www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1242 And then there is that whole thing that people were supposed to “leave room for the Holy Ghost” when dancing, etc. As if… the Holy Ghost is… rubbing up against them? Men and women? I just don’t get the whole concept… sorry. Read More »

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  • Profile: Mike Wallace

    http: //www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1241 Hard to believe the star Steelers wide receiver is Jewish, but then… Waitaminute, you mean we profiled the other Mike Wallace? Well that makes a heck of a lot more sense. Mike Wallace was suggested by Daniel from North Carolina and Penny from New York. Read More »

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  • Profile: Gloria Allred

    http: //www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1240 I had no idea how to profile Allred… And then I went to her website. Suggestions from Mila from Alexandria, Miriam from Burbank, and Clay from California. Read More »

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