Profile: Isaac Raboy

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1515

We were trying to find a Jew from North Dakota. So... Raboy spent a few months there? That's the best we can do...

Profile: Tammy Baldwin

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1513

Suggestions by Ben from Berkley and Miriam from California.

Profile: Andrew Ryan

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1512

Can we actually get some protagonist video game Jews?

Profile: Susanna Hoffs

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1511

Suggestions by Neal from Sarasota, George from Reynoldsburg, OH, Gary from South Africa, John from Baltimore, and Jonathan from Maryland.

Profile: Sam McCullum

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1510

McCullum is yet another on the list of Jewish NFLers whose career took a downturn in Minnesota...

Profile: Paul Zoll

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1509

Zoll's Wikipedia page is rather small. He deserves better.

Profile: Joe Weider

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1508

Weider was also a bodybuilder himself. I'll leave it up to you to find the pictures...

Profile: Jodie Foster

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1507

Suggestion by Michael from Montreal.

Super Bowl Sunday: The Jewish Choice

As of Sunday, the Super Bowl teams are set, leaving us with just one question before the big game: Who to root for?

Obviously, if you're a Ravens or 49ers fan, the choice has been made for you. But what about the rest of us? Who should we as Jews put our significant psychological strength behind? Well don't worry, your football friends at JONJ have you well shmeared.

Let's break it down:

Category	Ravens	Niners	Verdict
Jew-iest City	Baltimore, with 95,000 Jews, is tied with Montreal for the 20th-most Jewish city in the world. Not bad.	San Francisco? 13th. 210,000 resident Hebrews—more than some cities in Israel.	Niners in a landslide.
Players	Their starting LB was Jewish for a weekend, once.	Nothing, nada, zip, zipperoonio.	Look, if you’re rooting for teams based on the number of Jewish players you’ve got bigger issues.
Owner	Art Modell, now deceased, was Jewish. He was also a despicable slime bag, unable to even fly over the state of Ohio	At least the Ravens have a Jewish, despicable, slime bag.	Ravens
Signature Food	Crab. Not Kosher	Rice-a…Just kidding. Probably sourdough bread. Either that or Dim Sum.	If you think it’s sourdough, SF wins by a little, just because at least a good Jew can eat it. If you think it’s Dim Sum, SF wins by a lot.
Celebrity Fan	Michael Phelps, Not a Jew	Robin Williams, Not a Jew	Push. Basically at this point we just thank Hashem Atlanta didn’t win because then we’d be stuck with, ugh, Justin Bieber.
Bias	The last time the Ravens made the Super Bowl, they crushed my beloved Giants, starting a tailspin year where my Devils AND my Yankees also lost in their respective league finals. My totally objective opinion on the Ravens franchise? They can go fuck themselves.	Waaaaaay back on 12/3, I predicted SF to win the Super Bowl in this very blog. And if you don’t think I wrote this whole post just to point that out, you don’t know me all that well.	You’re kidding, right?

So there ya have it. We've determined that if you're Jewish, you should be rooting for the San Francisco 49ers to win the Super Bowl. And we did it in a totally rational, scientific way.

So let's go Niners! Once you have the Jews on your side, you can't lose! (now that we think about this maybe we should have pushed for the Ravens....)

Profile: Leonard Stern

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1505

Have to give props to the writer of Stern's NY Times obit.

Settling the Score: Elvis

We've been asked in the comments of this blog (and in emails) why we shifted Elvis to "Not a Jew". Well, here's an excerpt from the blog at InterfaithFamily.com. The blog is ran by Nate Bloom, who does fantastic research.

Presley was not Jewish. Yes, some sources repeat a tall tale that Presley's third cousin told 20 years ago to a Jewish biographer of Presley. This cousin said that he and Presley shared a very remote Jewish maternal ancestor (a woman who lived in the early to mid 1800s).

This biographer did no further checking on this cousin's story. She just reported it as "fact."

A detailed check of available records, including the census, shows that this maternal ancestor was not Jewish. Presley and his parents did share a two-family house in Memphis, Tennessee with a poor Orthodox rabbi and his family in the early '50s.

I spoke to the adult daughter of this rabbi. Sadly, her father, the rabbi, died young. She was a child at the time of his death and she never talked to him about Elvis.

She told me that her mother, the rabbi's wife, and Presley's mother, Gladys, were close friends. Gladys, her mother told her, never said a word about any Jewish ancestor. Her mother said that if Gladys had any knowledge of any Jewish ancestor, the mother was sure Gladys wouldn't have hesitated to mention it.

Presley worked for the rabbi's family, doing tasks Jews were not permitted to do on the Jewish Sabbath. He did this for free. The rabbi, in turn, did things like lend Presley his record player and arrange for a summer camp trip for Presley. When Presley hit it big, he made a major donation to the rabbi's religious school.

Profile: Marc Trestman

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1506

Suggestions by Bruce from Cambridge, IL, Aaron from Chicago, Ira from Chicago, Ed from Florida(?), Mic from Illinois, Andy from Evanston, IL, and Steven from Chicago (duh).

Profile: John Key

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1504

Suggestion by Brian from Japan.

Jews in the News: A Jewish NFL coach

The Chicago Bears have the first Jewish NFL coach since... well, who was the last one? Marv Levy for the Bills?

The Bears hired Marc Trestman, last with Montreal of the CFL.

Profile: Milton Friedman

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1503

Suggestions by Jason from Vancouver, David from Wroclaw, Alex from Israel, Gabriel from NYC, and Max from Illinois.

Profile: Elaine May

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1502

Suggestion by Johan from Santa Monica.

Profile: Paul Ehrlich

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1501

Suggestions by Mila from Alexandria, Don from LA, and Robbie from NY.

1500 Profiles...

When we started this six and a half years ago, not in our wildest dreams did we think we would get to 1500 profiles. Heck, we didn't think we'd get to 100.

Yet somehow, we got to that 100, and then 100 more, and 100 more, and before you know it... here we are. We have our readers to thank; there is absolutely no way we could keep it going without you, dear readers! Your suggestions and feedback are the fuel of our website.

Here's to another 1500,

Yakov and Zev.

Profile: Ferdinand Magellan

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1500

Profile #1500!

Profile: Joyce Brothers

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1499

Closing in on 1500 profiles...

Profile: Mr. Krabs

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1498

Suggestions by Jake from Philadelphia, Theo from Vienna, and Johnny from California.

Profile: Isaac Isaacs

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1497

Suggestion by John from Australia, who says "not all Australians are like Mel Gibson". Of course, not! Some of them are like Paul Hogan...

Profile: Karl Landsteiner

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1496

Suggestion by Norman from Bellerose, NY.

Profile: Victor Perez

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1495

A boxing champion with the last name Perez... a TUNISIAN Jew???

Suggestion by Yosef from Israel.

Profile: Steve Ballmer

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1494

Suggestions by Bruce from LA, Greg from Seattle, Sam from Boston, and Jay from Baltimore.

Profile: Otto Herschmann

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1493

For those who missed our old schools Olympics profiles...

Les Juifs qui ne le sont pas

One of our readers, who has helped us out with a couple of tricky problems in the past, has started a French-language blog dedicated to the "Not a Jew" part of the equation. Allez!

Profile: Irv Gikofsky

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1492

The current Channel 11 hostess is Jodi Applegate, who is married to Michael Kay -- Not a Jew, please stop asking!