Jew or Not Jew http://www.jewornotjew.com/ Choosing the Chosen People en-us Popeye http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=3456 Years ago we profiled Olive Oyl, l'objet du désir of Popeye the Sailor Man. (It was so long ago, we can't even remember the verdict we gave to Olive! Apparently, Not a Jew.) Well, eagle-eyed readers have spotted a potential Jew in the Popeye universe... the man himself. (Who did you think, Bluto? As! If!) Sat, 16 Mar 2024 00:01:00 EDT Ron Perlman http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=3455 There is a specific cadre of actors (Harrison Ford, Tom Cruise, Will Smith, Tom Hanks) who only play good guys. In the rare case they don't, it's very confusing. (Has Hanks ever played a bad guy? We guess in "The Ladykillers", the Coen Brothers' worst(?) movie. It's hard to believe is a bad guy in that one! How can Tom freakin' Hanks be a bad guy!?) Wed, 13 Mar 2024 00:01:00 EDT Hans Niemann http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=3454 A little over a year ago, the world of chess was rocked by a cheating scandal. At the center of it was unquestionable #1 Magnus Carlsen, then-world-champion (he's since abdicated because he got bored -- REALLY!) and up-and-comer Hans Niemann. Mon, 11 Mar 2024 00:01:00 EDT Anthony Epstein http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=3453 British pathologist Anthony Epstein died recently at the age of 102. Jewish, of course, as we always welcome a non-creepy Jewish Epstein to make up for... that one. But let's talk about Anthony! Fri, 8 Mar 2024 00:01:00 EST Lewis Strauss http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=3452 Watching "Oppenheimer" is akin to who-is-who of JONJ's Scientists category: Albert Einstein! Niels Bohr! Isidor Isaac Rabi! Edward Teller! Hans Bethe! Leo Szilard! And, of course, J. Robert Oppenheimer (played by the goyishe Cillian Murphy, but the resemblance is definitely there). Wed, 6 Mar 2024 07:04:00 EST Anne Klein http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=3451 If you ever watch a television show or a movie that depicts American women prior to 1970, you will notice dresses, in home or in the office. In fact, that's how you immediately know that it's a period piece: women wear dresses. Mon, 4 Mar 2024 00:01:00 EST Kingsley Ben-Adir http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=3450 Who should be considered Jewish, British actor Ben Kingsley or British actor Kingsley Ben? (Make that Kingsley Ben-Adir.) Fri, 1 Mar 2024 00:01:00 EST Samuel Goldwyn http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=3449 We pushed play to start the movie. The familiar lion roared. Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer, the credits read. "An Amazon Company". What? Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:01:00 EST Cindy Fuller http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=3448 In our profile of Lindsey Vuolo, written over a decade ago, we claimed that she claimed that she was "Playboy's first openly Jewish playmate". The key word is "openly", we guess? Mon, 26 Feb 2024 00:01:00 EST Karl Sweetan http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=3447 Former Detroit Lions quarterback Karl Sweetan holds an unbreakable NFL record. It literally can't be broken. Fri, 23 Feb 2024 00:01:00 EST