Weird Search: January 14

Kim Jong Il.

Not a Jew.

I will let Yakov tell this one:

I was sitting at my desk at the old job and a guy I work with, someone who I've had perhaps 2 minutes of conversation with in total in the time we've worked together, plops down at my desk and says:

"I was on the can and it suddenly occurred to me, Kim Jong Il would make a great Jedi name!"

Ah... but not a Jewish name.

Profile: Don Draper

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=441

It took Yakov a loooooooong time to get me to watch "Mad Men". Sometimes, I should be a little less stubborn. Sometimes.

The series' creator, Matthew Weiner, is Jewish, BTW.

Weird Search: January 13

Walt Disney.

Not a Jew.

But was he an anti-semite? That's a question for another time...

Go Steelers?

Yakov's Giants are out, so we will now turn our collective JONJ rooting interest to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Why? Well, yesterday we had one of the most-read days in JONJ history... People just need to know if Ben Roethlisberger is Jewish.

You'd think people would wait until after the game or something.

Profile: David Duchovny

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=440

Tea Leoni: Not a Jew. Now that's a damn shame.

Weird Search: January 12

Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Not a Jew.

But is it OK to admit I've seen "Bloodsport" at least seven times?

Profile: Joseph Heller

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=439

Heller is great and everything, but this is the third profile where I mention, directly or indirectly, Kurt Vonnegut.

Seriously... Can we make Kurt an honorary Jew or something?

Weird Search: January 11

Pele.

Not a Jew.

Well, we do have a quarter of David Beckham... As if.

Profile: Bill Goldberg

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=438

I really have nothing to say about this profile, but doing the fake Jewish wrestler stereotypes was as much fun as I've had since writing the fake Jewish Chuck Norris jokes.

Also, Moishe would like to add that professional wrestling is just silly, and he doesn't understand why I'm being so reverential in this profile.

Actually, I'm not sure why I am, either.

Weird Search: January 10

We would love, love, LOVE for him to have been Jewish. But if you listen to him talk about his Catholic upbringing and how he switched to worshiping the Sun, you know it just can't be the case.

George Carlin.

Sadly, not a Jew.

RIP.

Profile: Matt Lauer

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=437

This profile started with a search someone made on our website. Matt Lauer! Jewish? Looks like another Weird Search of the Day candidate!

And then we looked it up.

Weird Search: January 9

Louisiana might be wonderful (we've never been), but do you realize that its citizens elected the former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan to Congress — twice — and that he was VERY close to becoming Governor?

In the 1990s, not the 1890s.

David Duke.

Not a Jew.

Profile: Brendan Fraser

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=436

When we started this thing, I set a general goal in my mind of around 50 profiles. After all, how many people were there to write about, really?

At around 100 or so profiles, I figured there were only, maybe, 100 more people out there to write about.

After 200, I thought we'd make 400 or so. Today's profile is number 436 and at this point I think we've discovered the true number of total profiles we can possibly write: it's infinite. Because if you include all the Jews worth profiling, that's a big number. Then you add all the non-Jews who might be Jews and that's an even bigger one. But once you start including all the non-Jews who couldn't possibly be Jews yet someone somewhere is convinced they're Jewish (like our friend Mr. Fraser)--well, that's pretty much everyone on Earth except Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.

So, yeah, looks like we'll be doing this for awhile....

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On the left: Brendan Fraser in "George of the Jungle". On the right: Brendan Fraser in real life. Oh, the magic of Hollywood...

Weird Search: January 8

Yesterday, we went right. Today, we go left.

Michael Moore.

Not a Jew.

Profile: Calvin Klein

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=435

Marty: Calvin? Wh... Why do you keep calling me Calvin?
Lorraine: Well, that is your name, isn't it? Calvin Klein? It's written all over your underwear.