[dead]

Rabbi Marvin Hier, who founded the Simon Wiesenthal Center in L.A., told the AP, "You can't feel Jewish. It's not a matter of feeling."

I think it’s hysterical how this entire brouhaha is EXACTLY like an episode of Seinfeld.

[OldFriend]

And frankly, we jews have enough schtunks in our midst. We don't need Richards!

[Andy from Beaverton]

National Lampoon did a great cut and paste job with Seinfeld episodes over this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=6dXBC6R_rxk

[trisham]

Oy vey.

[COUNTrecount]

Why can't third rate "artistes" who have won the $$ lottery based on pure luck, not talent, just be grateful and slink back into obscurity?

[Petronski]

He's not a Jew, he just "feels Jewish."


Good grief.

[MotleyGirl70]

I agree with you, dead. This whole thing is turning more comical by the day.

[My2Cents]

Rubenstein, an expert in crisis management

Who hires an expert in crisis management as their publicist? Michael Richards, I guess.

[Mr. Mojo]

Rabbi Marvin Hier, who founded the Simon Wiesenthal Center in L.A., told the AP, "You can't feel Jewish. It's not a matter of feeling."

Oh but it is, Rabbi. When I play funk on my Hammond B3 I not only feel black, I become black.

...even though I'm white/Jewish most of the time.

[N. Theknow]

He said, 'I agree with the religious beliefs of Judaism, and I've adopted Judaism as my religion.' "

Probably goes to synagogue every Sunday.

[brooklyn dave]

I like Matzoh Ball soup--does that make me Jewish? And I can kvetch as well as any Bubbe on the Coney Island Boardwalk. Still I don't think that would make me Jewish--just a goy who can kvetch.

[Tijeras_Slim]

There's a mohel joke in there somewhere.

[ansel12]

Where is the link to the claim that he is Jewish?