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... Texas?

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. Everyone says that Match Point was Woody's turning point of the 2000s, but M&M was his first good film after the triple-drecker of The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Hollywood Ending, and Anything Else.

Suggestions from Devon from Marblehead, MA, Ari from Boston, Linda from Bellevue, WA, Gary from Malaysia, Noah from Long Island, Arthur from NYC, Carl from Connecticut, Bruce from LA, Michael from Fairfield, IA, and Randy from LA.

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. Mark’s father Sandy, who was raised Jewish, related the family’s flight from Vienna during the German invasion of Austria in World War II as a past example of pushing past persecution and pain. “My dad and grandparents figured it was a good time to get out of town,” says Sandy, who converted to Protestantism when Mark was born.^[1]

Suggestions by Scott from Maryland, Bruce from Cambridge, IL, Michael from Montreal, and Barbara from Austria.

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...

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.

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. Marilyn Monroe (+5)

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.

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.

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.

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...

Profile: Frances Bay

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1248

Ah, the marble rye...

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...

Profile: Robert Dover

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1246

Robert got his first horse as a bar mitzvah present...

Profile: Robots

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1245

This is how robots looked in Capek's 1920 play:

Scary.

Profile: Hymie Weiss

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1244

Weiss was suggested by Simon from Houston... as well as Yakov's old office, who once ordered lunch from a place called Hymie's.