If You Had To Rewrite History Without Two of the Following People, Who Would You Erase?
A quiz for Antisemites and their Dinner Partners
This list of famous Jews could go on for miles. I got tired of listing them. But my pick for who the world could have survived just fine without are numbers 1 and 2.
Donald Trump (not a Jew, but, in fairness, has done great things for Israel)
Kanye West (not a Jew)
Jesus Christ (a Jew)
John the Baptist (a Jew)
The Apostles of Jesus (all Jews)
Albert Einstein (a Jew)
Niels Bohr (a Jew)
Bob Dylan (a Jew)
Volodymyr Zelenskyy (a Jew)
Gustav Mahler (a Jew)
George Gershwin (a Jew)
Groucho Marx (a Jew)
Felix Mendelsshon (a Jew)
Paul Newman (a Jew)
Beverly Sills (a Jew)
58 Jewish Nobel Prize Winners in Medicine
Kirk Douglas (a Jew)
Gwyneth Paltrow (a Jew)
Dustin Hoffman (a Jew)
Richard Feyman (a Jew)
Robert Oppenheimer (a Jew)
Irving Berlin (a Jew)
Sean Penn (a Jew)
Leonard Nimoy (a Jew)
36 Jewish Nobel Laureates in Chemistry
Marilyn Monroe (a Jew)
Daniel Radcliff (a Jew)
Gloria Steinem (a Jew)
Stan Lee (a Jew)
Elie Wiesel (a Jew)
56 Jewish Nobel Laureates in Physics
Stephen Sondheim (a Jew)
Walter Matthau (a Jew)
9 Jewish Nobel Peace Prize Winners
Sergey Brin (a Jew)
Jonas Salk (a Jew)
Carl Sagan (a Jew)
Sigmund Freud (a Jew)
Nostradamus (a Jew)
Steven Spielberg (a Jew)
16 Jewish Nobel Laureates in Literature
Daniel Day Lewis (a Jew)
Felix Frankfurter (a Jew)
Mayer Rothschild (a Jew)
Sandy Koufax (a Jew)
Red Auerbach (a Jew)
Larry Ellison (a Jew)
Marc Cuban (a Jew)
Louis Brandeis (a Jew)
Michael Bloomberg (a Jew)
Richard Dreyfuss (a Jew)
Karl Popper (a Jew)
Baruch de Spinoza (a Jew)
Goldie Hawn (a Jew)
Alan Greenspan (a Jew)
Maimonides (a Jew)
Dustin Hoffman (a Jew)
Edward G. Robinson (a Jew)
John Stewart (a Jew)
Leonard Cohen (a Jew)
Estée Lauder (a Jew)
Billy Joel (a Jew)
Marc Chagall (a Jew)
Carly Simon (a Jew)
37 Jewish Nobel Laureates in Economics
Paul Simon (a Jew)
Art Garfunkle (a Jew)
Phil Ochs (a Jew)
Lou Reed (a Jew)
Randy Newman (a Jew)
Michael Dell (a Jew)
Neil Diamond (a Jew)
Abraham (a Jew)
Moses (a Jew)
Eliot Gould (a Jew)
George Soros (a Jew)
Natalie Portman (a Jew)
Jack Black (a Jew)
Robert Kraft (a Jew)
Sumner Redston (a Jew)
Scarlett Johansson (a Jew)
Barbara Streisand (a Jew)
Benjamin Disraeli (a Jew)
Harvey Keitel (a Jew)
Camille Pissarro (a Jew)
Paul Samuelson (a Jew)
Milton Friedman (a Jew)
Lauren BaCall (a Jew)
Elizabeth Taylor (a Jew)
Harry Houdini (a Jew)
Leonard Bernstein (a Jew)
Aaron Coplan (a Jew)
Larry David (a Jew)
Bette Midler (a Jew)
William Shatner (a Jew)
Peter Sellers (a Jew)
Groucho Marx (a Jew)
Billy Crystal (a Jew)
Gene Wilder
Sammy Davis Jr. (a Jew)
Adam Sandler (a Jew)
Jerry Seinfeld (a Jew)
Tony Curtis (a Jew)
Dear Laura, Ukrainian corruption, however small or large, is not at stake here. We have, in Putin, a megalomaniac without an ounce of humanity. Had NATO not expanded, he'd have taken the Baltics and Finland by now. NATO did not expand to threaten Russia. It expanded to protect itself from Russia. I listened to the links you sent. I was completely underwhelmed by an armchair academic who knew it all and was adamant that Putin would never invade Ukraine. The past can't be changed. At this point, we are, yet again, in a war to defend Europe from a madman. You need to choose sides. It's that simple.
Hi Arthur, No need whatsoever to read anything that's not likely of interest. I do think, though, that you are missing something major. Putin's strategy is to sit back and bomb Ukraine on an endless basis -- for years as needed. Ukraine does not have the means to kick Putin out of Ukraine. It does have the means to inflict lots of casualties on Russian troops in Ukraine. So this is a war of attrition with enormous economic consequences for all of us. If Russia's main weapon -- terror -- is eliminated, the duration to a peace treaty will be much shorter. Hence, my column is largely about economics as is most geopolitics. best, Larry