From: wnbc@next01pg2.wam.umd.edu (Joseph Samuel Kaufman)
Subject: Full Jew (Re: Half Jew)
Keywords: Jew
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 20:27:01 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.123813.8461@cbfsb.cb.att.com> mxl@cbnewsg.cb.att.com  
(marc.a.levy) writes:
> This issue has been dead for a while.... But...
> 
> 
> This morning at 6:30, Howard said, "My mother married a Jew"
> From that peice of information, we can conclude that Ben Stern
> IS Jewish.... I seem to remember someone (Maby Howard) that
> Raye Stern is also Jewish.... She looks/sounds jewish (I am
> jewish so I can say this... )
> 
> I will beleive that howard is infact 100% New York Jew Boy!
> 
> Marc LEVY.

Howard is definitely 100% Jew.  My uncle is neighbors with an aunt of  
Howard's, in Queens.  She told him that she is very disappointed in Howard  
for saying that he is not fully Jewish.  Also, I have many old articles,  
in which Howard specifically states that he is a Jew.  If you listened to  
today's broadcast (12/18/92), then you would have heard Howard jokingly  
scold Robin for saying that she was black.  Howard told her that she  
shouldn't have said anything, because there were many people who listened  
to the show, who may not take to that too lightly.  He then laughed and  
said he was half-Jewish.  Also, yesterday, Howard said he was  
half-Christian.  Shortly after, he made a distinction between Christian  
and Catholic, and you could tell by the tone of his voice, that he knew he  
made a mistake, because if he was anything, it would have to be  
half-Catholic and not Christian.  It's like the Rolling Stone article  
said, "Howard says he's half-Jewish just so he could make fun of Jesus."   
Well, you may ask me, why the hell it means so much to me - the fact that  
he is %100 Jewish or not.  The reason is, and I think it is the reason of  
many of the other posters who claimed the same thing, is that I grew up as  
a Jew, but I had no Jewish role models.  When I started listening to  
Howard, when he was just leaving WNBC, I finally found a Jew that I could  
say was very much like me - one that I could look up to - one that wasn't  
stuck-up and materialistic - one that was willing to keep his lips shut  
when around other people's asses - one that went through much of the same  
things I went through, such as Anti-Semetism - one that was willing to  
fight for what he believed in.  I sometimes get upset when Howard says he  
is half-Jew, because I know he is not a phony, but in the same respect, he  
has, on this issue, clearly dug himself a hole which he can not climb out  
of.  Also, I would like to state that I do not get offended at anything he  
does, against Jews or not.  That idiot Mike Rosen can laugh at when Daniel  
Carver starts screaming the word "Nigger," but he can't laugh at Kurt  
Waldheim Jr. when he makes fun of Holocaust Jews.  Sounds like a hippocrit  
to me.  Well, Jew or Half-Jew, Howard Stern will still be my IDOL.
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