Barbara Walters (1929–2022), media personality, a regular fixture on morning television shows (Today and The View), evening news magazines (20/20), and on The ABC Evening News, as the first female evening news anchor[178]
^Obituary from Chicago Sun-Times July 21, 1999 (source findarticles.com)
^"
Interview With Pearl Paterson ThompsonArchived 2007-01-16 at the
Wayback Machine" interviewed by Greg Kupsky, from Rutgers Oral History Archives: "GK: Did you ever see any examples of anti-Semitism at Rutgers? PT: [....]There was someone else I knew who changed his name, and there was a very famous columnist, Martin Agronsky [Rutgers College, 1936], who is listed in the Rutgers yearbook as Martin Agrons, but later, a few years afterwards when he became famous, he decided to live up to his name. So, I had and still have some very good Jewish friends."
^Marx, Ben (February 15, 2018).
"NBC News' Peter Alexander on Cubs Fanaticism, Ballet, and His Proudest Moment as a Dad". Fatherly. I'm Jewish, the girls go to a Jewish preschool. One of my favorite joys is sharing Shabbat with them on Friday nights. The girls light the candles and we sing the blessings together. My wife is not Jewish but is the world's best mom and has totally embraced these traditions and I look forward to the girls being Bat Mitzvah'd one day.
^Allison Hoffman (March 22, 2012).
"Lightning Rod". Tablet Magazine. He is the former editor of the leading journal of the American Jewish liberal political class, a grandson of Holocaust refugees, and the son of South African Jews who left for the United States rather than raise their children under apartheid
^"Celebrities". Archived from
the original on July 17, 2011. Retrieved May 18, 2006. "the Jewish reporter Carl Bernstein, who busted Nixon, in All the President’s Men..."
^"Kate Bolduan". Retrieved August 20, 2017. he is married to Carlyle Group principal Michael David Gershenson, and both are based in Washington D.C. The couple are recent converts to the Jewish faith, having joined the Washington Hebrew Congregation sometime in November 2009
^Holmes, Anna.
"Good Enough To Eat Meet: Say Hello To Our Newest Ladyblogger". Jezebel. I should disclose my bias as an Israeli-born Jew, whose European grandparents and great-grandparents were among the few in their families to survive Nazi genocide because they were Zionists in what was then known as Palestine.
^Charen, Mona Charen (March 2, 2004).
"Hating the Jews". Townhall.com. As a Jew, I can unhesitatingly declare that the world would be a better place if it contained more believing Christians.
^Sarah, Chayes (December 1, 2001).
"Morocco RPCV Sarah Chayes spends A Night in the Taliban Kitchen". Andover Bulletin via peacecorpsonline.org. The best were the two Tajik cooks who adopted me, made me sit in their warm kitchen, gave me their bed and served me endless cups of hot green tea all through the night as I worked. I snuck them apricots for the 5 a.m. meal as everyone filed in to take dishes of rice in a din of clanking pots and clattering plates. How incredibly surreal—an American (Jewish!) female the pampered pet of the Taliban during the death throes of their regime.
^Michaels, D. (March 6, 2013).
"Power to the Patient!". The Jewish Exponent. It's not so much that one has to have chutzpah to talk back to one's doctor, or question him, says the Jewish broadcaster, as it is "having the bravery to speak up."
^[2] ""She's an informed anchor, and totally unafraid to be Jewish on the air," Brandwynne said. "There was a time when it wasn't such a hot idea to admit that you were Jewish. We've come to another place." "I love our history, our perseverance, our individuality and devotion to family," Fernandez said. "I'm very proud of the Jewish people and [their] contributions to society and world culture.""
^[3] "This, combined with the fact that Friedman is Jewish, makes all the more..."
^"Moscow Rules spy novelist Daniel Silva". Hugh Hewitt. July 29, 2008. Retrieved August 5, 2012. And also, I also fell in love with a Jewish woman, and wanted my children to be raised Jewish, and didn't want to be different from them.
^Jeffrey Goldberg —
[4] "Goldberg recently won the Anti-Defamation League's Daniel Pearl Award and goes so far as to suggest that being Jewish has benefited him in his dealings with terrorists. "I've always found it to my advantage. I use my Jewishness as a tool.""
^Goldberg, Jonah (2004-12-23).
"Politicizing Christmas", National Review Online. Accessed 2017-07-08
^Wilensky, Sheila (February 28, 2014).
"TV news anchor's family fled Russian oppression".
Arizona Jewish Post. She recalls her family's newfound openness in America about being Jewish. "In Russia, you had to hide it. I was told that my grandfather had to sneak matzah. It was like buying it on the black market. We secretly celebrated [Passover] inside our homes. Both sets of my grandparents spoke Yiddish."
^Jong-Fast, Molly (2006). "Tell Me About Your Mother". In Ellenson, Ruth Andrew (ed.). The Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt. New York: Plume. p. 19.
ISBN978-0-452-28748-8. I guess I should give you a little family history. We are Jews.
^Keith, Tamara (December 10, 2007).
"A Recipe for Latke Failure".
NPR. When I was converting to Judaism, my rabbi strongly recommended that I buy some cookbooks. It seems part of learning to be Jewish was learning to cook Jewish foods.
^Cohen, Irwin.
"Baseball Is Dull Only To Those With Dull Minds", The Jewish Press, February 7, 2007. "The best book you can get about Thomson's homer, the 1951 season, the players, sign-stealing and more is Joshua Prager's The Echoing Green. Prager, who grew up in New Jersey, went to Moriah Day School, Ramaz High School and spent a year in yeshiva after high school before going on to college and a writing career with The Wall Street Journal."
^Schorr –
[12] "Schorr suggests in the 2004 anthology "I Am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl." "We Jews are searchers for truth, sometimes called investigative reporting," Schorr writes in his personal essay for the book."
^"S.L. Shneiderman, English Articles (partial chronological list)". S.L. and Eileen Shneiderman Collection of Yiddish Books, University of Maryland Libraries. Archived from the original on June 3, 2012. Retrieved August 3, 2023.
^"The Axe Files - Ep. 136: Ben Smith Released"(PDF).
University of Chicago Institute of Politics and
CNN. April 6, 2017. Archived from
the original(PDF) on January 21, 2019. I grew up in a household where my parents disagreed on pretty much everything and it makes it hard for you to be a real ideologue or to sort of -- you know, or to see the opposing side. To see these two sides is irreconcilable enemies. She's a Democrat and he's also fairly Christian. She's Jewish.
^Sorkin, Andrew Ross (December 25, 2016).
"Andrew Ross Sorkin tweet". Twitter. Retrieved October 6, 2021. I am! A Christmas loving Jew! We did Chanukah last night and we will again tonight and the night after...
^Balint, Judy Lash (January 23, 2003).
"Getting To Know You". Israel Insider. Retrieved December 28, 2019.
^Shimron, Yonat (March 6, 2020).
"Katherine Stewart on Christian nationalism's push to undermine democratic norms". Religion News Service. Stewart, who is Jewish and whose husband was raised Catholic, said she first became aware of Christian nationalism when her daughter's public school in Santa Barbara, California, hosted a Good News Club, which encouraged elementary-grade children to try to convert peers to their evangelical faith.
^Wallace —
[15] "Wallace, who said he is Jewish and was brought up in a Zionist home, admitted that earlier in the day he "got himself in trouble for asking provocative questions.""
^"Interview With Marco Werman: In The Mix". PBS Frontline. May 2003. Well, I'm really not observant -- my mother converted to Judaism before I was born, and my father was born Jewish but not religious. I was brought up in Jewish culture, but never had a bar mitzvah
^Shammas, Anton (September 29, 1988).
"The Morning After". The New York Times Review of Books. He was asked by Mr. Novak to comment on an article by an American Jew, Robert Zelnick, which had been published in The Washington Post...
^Eli, Philip (March 7, 2018).
"Is Dave Zirin The Most Important Sportswriter In America?". The Forward. As Zirin becomes evermore recognizable, he joins a rich tradition of Jewish sportswriters and commentators that includes Howard Cosell, Tony Kornheiser and Al Michaels. When I asked him about his Judaism, he told me that, more than anything, his sense of being Jewish is "a commitment to questioning what I'm told is true."
Barbara Walters (1929–2022), media personality, a regular fixture on morning television shows (Today and The View), evening news magazines (20/20), and on The ABC Evening News, as the first female evening news anchor[178]
^Obituary from Chicago Sun-Times July 21, 1999 (source findarticles.com)
^"
Interview With Pearl Paterson ThompsonArchived 2007-01-16 at the
Wayback Machine" interviewed by Greg Kupsky, from Rutgers Oral History Archives: "GK: Did you ever see any examples of anti-Semitism at Rutgers? PT: [....]There was someone else I knew who changed his name, and there was a very famous columnist, Martin Agronsky [Rutgers College, 1936], who is listed in the Rutgers yearbook as Martin Agrons, but later, a few years afterwards when he became famous, he decided to live up to his name. So, I had and still have some very good Jewish friends."
^Marx, Ben (February 15, 2018).
"NBC News' Peter Alexander on Cubs Fanaticism, Ballet, and His Proudest Moment as a Dad". Fatherly. I'm Jewish, the girls go to a Jewish preschool. One of my favorite joys is sharing Shabbat with them on Friday nights. The girls light the candles and we sing the blessings together. My wife is not Jewish but is the world's best mom and has totally embraced these traditions and I look forward to the girls being Bat Mitzvah'd one day.
^Allison Hoffman (March 22, 2012).
"Lightning Rod". Tablet Magazine. He is the former editor of the leading journal of the American Jewish liberal political class, a grandson of Holocaust refugees, and the son of South African Jews who left for the United States rather than raise their children under apartheid
^"Celebrities". Archived from
the original on July 17, 2011. Retrieved May 18, 2006. "the Jewish reporter Carl Bernstein, who busted Nixon, in All the President’s Men..."
^"Kate Bolduan". Retrieved August 20, 2017. he is married to Carlyle Group principal Michael David Gershenson, and both are based in Washington D.C. The couple are recent converts to the Jewish faith, having joined the Washington Hebrew Congregation sometime in November 2009
^Holmes, Anna.
"Good Enough To Eat Meet: Say Hello To Our Newest Ladyblogger". Jezebel. I should disclose my bias as an Israeli-born Jew, whose European grandparents and great-grandparents were among the few in their families to survive Nazi genocide because they were Zionists in what was then known as Palestine.
^Charen, Mona Charen (March 2, 2004).
"Hating the Jews". Townhall.com. As a Jew, I can unhesitatingly declare that the world would be a better place if it contained more believing Christians.
^Sarah, Chayes (December 1, 2001).
"Morocco RPCV Sarah Chayes spends A Night in the Taliban Kitchen". Andover Bulletin via peacecorpsonline.org. The best were the two Tajik cooks who adopted me, made me sit in their warm kitchen, gave me their bed and served me endless cups of hot green tea all through the night as I worked. I snuck them apricots for the 5 a.m. meal as everyone filed in to take dishes of rice in a din of clanking pots and clattering plates. How incredibly surreal—an American (Jewish!) female the pampered pet of the Taliban during the death throes of their regime.
^Michaels, D. (March 6, 2013).
"Power to the Patient!". The Jewish Exponent. It's not so much that one has to have chutzpah to talk back to one's doctor, or question him, says the Jewish broadcaster, as it is "having the bravery to speak up."
^[2] ""She's an informed anchor, and totally unafraid to be Jewish on the air," Brandwynne said. "There was a time when it wasn't such a hot idea to admit that you were Jewish. We've come to another place." "I love our history, our perseverance, our individuality and devotion to family," Fernandez said. "I'm very proud of the Jewish people and [their] contributions to society and world culture.""
^[3] "This, combined with the fact that Friedman is Jewish, makes all the more..."
^"Moscow Rules spy novelist Daniel Silva". Hugh Hewitt. July 29, 2008. Retrieved August 5, 2012. And also, I also fell in love with a Jewish woman, and wanted my children to be raised Jewish, and didn't want to be different from them.
^Jeffrey Goldberg —
[4] "Goldberg recently won the Anti-Defamation League's Daniel Pearl Award and goes so far as to suggest that being Jewish has benefited him in his dealings with terrorists. "I've always found it to my advantage. I use my Jewishness as a tool.""
^Goldberg, Jonah (2004-12-23).
"Politicizing Christmas", National Review Online. Accessed 2017-07-08
^Wilensky, Sheila (February 28, 2014).
"TV news anchor's family fled Russian oppression".
Arizona Jewish Post. She recalls her family's newfound openness in America about being Jewish. "In Russia, you had to hide it. I was told that my grandfather had to sneak matzah. It was like buying it on the black market. We secretly celebrated [Passover] inside our homes. Both sets of my grandparents spoke Yiddish."
^Jong-Fast, Molly (2006). "Tell Me About Your Mother". In Ellenson, Ruth Andrew (ed.). The Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt. New York: Plume. p. 19.
ISBN978-0-452-28748-8. I guess I should give you a little family history. We are Jews.
^Keith, Tamara (December 10, 2007).
"A Recipe for Latke Failure".
NPR. When I was converting to Judaism, my rabbi strongly recommended that I buy some cookbooks. It seems part of learning to be Jewish was learning to cook Jewish foods.
^Cohen, Irwin.
"Baseball Is Dull Only To Those With Dull Minds", The Jewish Press, February 7, 2007. "The best book you can get about Thomson's homer, the 1951 season, the players, sign-stealing and more is Joshua Prager's The Echoing Green. Prager, who grew up in New Jersey, went to Moriah Day School, Ramaz High School and spent a year in yeshiva after high school before going on to college and a writing career with The Wall Street Journal."
^Schorr –
[12] "Schorr suggests in the 2004 anthology "I Am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl." "We Jews are searchers for truth, sometimes called investigative reporting," Schorr writes in his personal essay for the book."
^"S.L. Shneiderman, English Articles (partial chronological list)". S.L. and Eileen Shneiderman Collection of Yiddish Books, University of Maryland Libraries. Archived from the original on June 3, 2012. Retrieved August 3, 2023.
^"The Axe Files - Ep. 136: Ben Smith Released"(PDF).
University of Chicago Institute of Politics and
CNN. April 6, 2017. Archived from
the original(PDF) on January 21, 2019. I grew up in a household where my parents disagreed on pretty much everything and it makes it hard for you to be a real ideologue or to sort of -- you know, or to see the opposing side. To see these two sides is irreconcilable enemies. She's a Democrat and he's also fairly Christian. She's Jewish.
^Sorkin, Andrew Ross (December 25, 2016).
"Andrew Ross Sorkin tweet". Twitter. Retrieved October 6, 2021. I am! A Christmas loving Jew! We did Chanukah last night and we will again tonight and the night after...
^Balint, Judy Lash (January 23, 2003).
"Getting To Know You". Israel Insider. Retrieved December 28, 2019.
^Shimron, Yonat (March 6, 2020).
"Katherine Stewart on Christian nationalism's push to undermine democratic norms". Religion News Service. Stewart, who is Jewish and whose husband was raised Catholic, said she first became aware of Christian nationalism when her daughter's public school in Santa Barbara, California, hosted a Good News Club, which encouraged elementary-grade children to try to convert peers to their evangelical faith.
^Wallace —
[15] "Wallace, who said he is Jewish and was brought up in a Zionist home, admitted that earlier in the day he "got himself in trouble for asking provocative questions.""
^"Interview With Marco Werman: In The Mix". PBS Frontline. May 2003. Well, I'm really not observant -- my mother converted to Judaism before I was born, and my father was born Jewish but not religious. I was brought up in Jewish culture, but never had a bar mitzvah
^Shammas, Anton (September 29, 1988).
"The Morning After". The New York Times Review of Books. He was asked by Mr. Novak to comment on an article by an American Jew, Robert Zelnick, which had been published in The Washington Post...
^Eli, Philip (March 7, 2018).
"Is Dave Zirin The Most Important Sportswriter In America?". The Forward. As Zirin becomes evermore recognizable, he joins a rich tradition of Jewish sportswriters and commentators that includes Howard Cosell, Tony Kornheiser and Al Michaels. When I asked him about his Judaism, he told me that, more than anything, his sense of being Jewish is "a commitment to questioning what I'm told is true."