Jews haven’t been able to make a name for themselves in the glitzy world of dance since the early days of the “Straight Up” dancer-singer-choreographer cum TV judge, crazy lady, and QVC maven. The ’80s pop star (and proud jewess), Paula Abdul, is officially being dethroned as the Jewish dancing queen by this season’s Dancing with the Stars cast, where a crew of Jewish celebs will try to prove there’s more to us than that effete circle-jerk known as the hora.
Cloris Leachman, 82, is the oldest, wrinkliest and, frankly, biggest name of the troupe. E! alums, Brooke Burke and Kim Kardashian will counter Leachman’s campy, geriatric appeal to bring us the T&A we’ve all come to expect. Rounding up the lot and providing South Park with more Jews-can’t-dance jokes, is the comic Jeff Ross. He’ll definitely be the one Jewish couch potatoes root for.
Too much Jew for you? Not to worry, Susan Lucci, Lance Bass and Toni Braxton will all shimmy their goyish asses onto the screen with the born-again Jonas Brothers set to perform on the September 24th show.
This is not acceptable. Neither Kim Kardashian nor Cloris Leachman is Jewish. Kardashian’s Armenian, and Leachman is some kind of Midwestern WASP. Let it be known that this post definitely does not have the Jewdar hechsher.
Cloris Leachman is both an Iowa native and a Jew. As for Kardashian’s father, he was OJ Simpson’s big lawyer and might as well have been a big Jew. We have to take what we can get here.
What’s your evidence on Leachman, other than the fact that she was in some Mel Brooks movies? I think people make the same (erroneous) presumption about her that they do about Valerie Harper, and associate her with her characters or associates. Some web
Why would being someone’s lawyer equate to “may as well be a jew”…’cos we’re all lawyers and doctors aren’t we?? Oy, you sound like my mother :P
Well then, let me re-phrase. As for Jews and dance, we have to take what we can get. While the entertainment world might be stocked full, the dance world boasts very few Jewish dancers, hence the South Park joke that Jews can’t dance.
Taking what you can get is fine, when there’s some connection–that’s where the guy with the Jewish father or grandfather gets full admission. But simply grabbing people because their fathers are lawyers with Middle Eastern names or they were in Mel Broo
I agree, declaring someone Jewish because they ‘sound Middle Eastern’ and they’re a lawyer seems a bit goyish to me :P
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Don’t call non-Jews Jews and don’t call Jews non-jews. This is a magazine and should tell the truth. Don’t spread misinformation and then justify it by the same reasoning that anti-semites use. I’m disappointed by this terrible “article.”
You forgot to mention Taylor Dane (very much Jewish and 80’s :)