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Posted in: The Chosen: Jewish members in the 111th U.S. Congress
What about Alan Grayson? His religion is listed as Jewish at the CQ Politics website: http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000002982018 Also he is included in the following story from the Jerusalem Post: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1225910044052&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/Printer
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Posted in: At least 139 of the Forbes 400 are Jewish
10/06/09 12:41 AM
Jacob, I appreciate that this is a challenging task if you aren't familiar with many of the persons on the Forbes list but at first glace it would appear that a lot of the people on the above list are not Jewish (even using the criteria you mention). Here are the names on your list that I found surprising, excluding the ones with asterisks (read: whom I do not think are Jewish): Riley P. Bechtel Stephen D. Bechtel Jr. George Lucas Marianne Cargill Liebmann Donald Schneider John Catsimatidis Margaret Whitman John Arrillaga Amongst those with asterisks, here is my take: Charles Ergen -- Yes Warren Stephens -- No Mitchell Rales -- Yes Steven Rales -- Yes Steve Wynn -- Yes William Gross -- Yes John Morgridge -- No Ken Fisher -- Yes John E. Abele -- No Joseph Mansueto -- No A. James Clark -- No Alan Gerry -- Yes (unsure) The following people on the list above I think deserve additional explanation: Larry Page (Jewish mother) Steven Ballmer (Jewish mother) Nicolas Berggruen (Jewish father) Daniel Ziff, Dirk Ziff, Robert Ziff -- the brothers have a Jewish grandfather. I am not sure about John Sperling, Peter Sperling, or Jeremy Jacobs Sr. Names that could be missing from the above list include: Ronald Burkle Phillip Frost Michael Moritz Charles Zegar Let me know if I can be of additional assistance.