Profile: Francois Hollande

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1360

Suggestions by Samuel from San Francisco and Klaus from Germany.

Profile: Eli Avivi

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1359

Akhzivland website, for those interested in visiting...

Profile: Orly Taitz

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1358

Another excellent (but scary) suggestion by Slava from Baltimore.

Update: RIP Nora Ephron

Writer/director Nora Ephron passed away yesterday. She was 71.

Profile: Chaim Potok

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1357

Yakov says that our reading list wasn't all bad, since we got to read "Stranger in a Strange Land"... So... there is that.

Suggestions by Miriam from Burbank and Thomas from Texas.

Profile: Shari Lewis

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1356

The other option would have been to profile Lamb Chop, giving us that elusive Jewish sheep... Oh well.

Suggestion by Esther from Canada.

Profile: Alfred Hajos

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1355

Hajos also wanted to swim in a third race, the 500 m, but it was so cold, he decided not to. The winner? Austria's Paul Neumann, Jew.

Profile: Marlee Matlin

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1354

Suggestions by Gerald from Toronto, Robert from Annapolis, and Shirley from Atlanta.

Profile: Gaspar da Gama

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1353

Not much is known about Gaspar's back story: his birthplace has been listed as either Poland... or Egypt.

Profile: Hugh Hefner

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1352

Suggestions by Todd from Detroit, Max from California, Dan from Philadelphia, Larry from Montreal, Bill from Virginia, and Jason from California.

Profile: Lena Dunham

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1351

So, Dunham said that two of the four main characters are Jewish. Shoshanna clearly is, Marnie clearly is not. Jessa and Shoshanna are cousins, so Jessa could be part Jewish. But Hannah herself is the obvious choice.

Profile: Elie Wiesel

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1350

Suggestions by Beatrice from Montreal, Vivant from Nice, Alexis from California, and Ben from Gilbert, AZ.

Profile: Jeff Halpern

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1349

Suggestions by Penny from New York, Mike from DC, Blair form New Jersey, Michael from Maryland, and Ben from Maryland.

Profile: Bronson Pinchot

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1348

TGIF was just the worst...

Profile: Ellen Michaels

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1347

Here's the album cover:

Thanks to Mark from New York for alerting us!

Profile: Shylock

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1346

Suggestions by Liza from Woodside, NY, and Tony from London. Also, a lot of suggestions to profile Al Pacino BECAUSE he played Shylock.

Profile: Mikhail Tal

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1345

Boris Gelfand, Jew, recently lost in the title match for the World Chess Championship in a tiebreaker... denying him a profile. So here's Tal instead.

Suggestion by Eyal from Israel.

Profile: Brian George

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1344

"Jerry Seinfeld is a bad man. A very, very bad man."

Suggestions by Shelley from Basking Ridge, NJ and Will from Virginia.

Profile: Rachel Ticotin

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1342

Rachel was married to David Caruso in the 80s...

Profile: Flavius Josephus

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1343

Here's a good Josephus simulator.

Thanks to Norman from Toronto for the terrific suggestion!

Profile: Matthew Weiner

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1341

Yakov is gonna get into profile numerology soon enough, so how about this:

Don Draper, profile #441

Jon Hamm, profile #641

Matthew Weiner, profile #1341

Coincidence.

Settling the Score: Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus... Profile #6! At the time we wrote Not a Jew, but gave him a 1 I point, just in case. Well, there is now a conclusion that he was Jewish!

Recently, a number of Spanish scholars, such as Jose Erugo, Celso Garcia de la Riega, Otero Sanchez and Nicholas Dias Perez, have concluded that Columbus was a Marrano, whose survival depended upon the suppression of all evidence of his Jewish background in face of the brutal, systematic ethnic cleansing.^[1]

So what does one make of this report that claims Columbus is the son of a Polish king???

Profile: Nora Ephron

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1340

Ephron, of course, was married to Carl Bernstein.