She’s the singer (1903-1965) who made so many delightful movie operettas – “Naughty Marietta,” “Maytime,” “Sweethearts,” and so forth. At one time, her manager was Charles Wagner. Her publicist was Constance Hope, whose other clients included Lily Pons and Lauritz Melchior. Wagner was annoyed by Hope’s influence over Jeanette, and in the singer’s presence referred to Hope as a “pushy Jewess.” She fired him on the spot. “Wanting You” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RdqU5kJ3Os

The film “Gentleman’s Agreement” (1947) tells of a journalist (Gregory Peck) investigating anti-Semitism in the United States. To do more research, he pretends to be Jewish – even though he’s not. (Elia Kazan directed the movie, Laura Z. Hobson wrote the novel.)

  Peck begins by visiting a stronghold of white Protestant privilege: a town in Connecticut. There he’s refused admittance to a hotel – which, the manager tells him, is “restricted.”
 
  Earlier, you saw Peck emerge from a train – and you saw the name of the place:
           
            DARIEN
 
  Gregory Peck then moves farther into frame. And now you see
             
            ARIEN
   
                                                  ***
(This was pointed out by Marc Lapadulla of Yale in a talk on “The Jewish Experience in American Cinema” he gave during One Day University’s program on “A Day of Jewish History” on Feb. 27 in New York City.)

 

 

  Answer:

  It depends upon the kind of Christian.

  A survey by Faith Matters in 2007 (cited in American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, by Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell, 2010) found that

  98% of Mormons believe that people “not of my faith, including non-Christians, can go to heaven.”

  Other non-Jews were less convinced.

  Only 83% of Catholics believe it.

  Only 79% of mainline Protestants.

  Only 62% of black Protestants and

  Only 54% of evangelical Protestants.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYuYojyDwN4

FROM THE INTERNET…

Australia is the only country (besides Israel) to depict a Jew on its highest-denomination bank note, the $100 bill. The man in question is Sir John Monash—not a prime minister nor a member of the royal family, but the commander of the Australian military forces at the end of the First World War.

Monash (1865-1931) was a native Australian, born to German Jewish immigrants. He was a prodigy, graduating from the equivalent of high school at 14 years old (and at the head of the class). From there, Monash studied civil engineering. In addition to building many of Melbourne’s bridges, Monash worked part-time in the intelligence corps of the Australian army.

When war broke out in 1914, Monash was 49. He was immediately appointed a brigadier and sent into battle. As the child of German immigrants, he was initially regarded with public suspicion. However, he soon proved himself, gaining a reputation for leading his troops into battle and being the last to retreat.

Monash’s greatest victory came in 1915—strangely, while supervising a retreat. In a few hours, he evacuated 45,000 soldiers and millions of pounds’ worth of equipment from the middle of enemy territory. Later that year, he was promoted to major general.

In 1918, during the final months of the war, Monash was appointed commander-in-chief of the Australian armed forces. He was known as a quick thinker, an innovative strategist, and for always taking care of his men: even during battles, Monash arranged for hot meals to be delivered to the front line.

 

Why do certain Jews, like Bernard Madoff, do bad things?

    Dr. Erica Brown, in her book “Confronting Scandal: How Jews Can Respond When Jews Do Bad Things” (2010), writes:

    “There seems to be a point—an elusive, slippery point—at which individuals deem themselves above the law…. At some point they begin to believe too much in their own publicity…. They realize that they can do something wrong and get away with it. And that deception becomes its own thrilling, fear-inducing magnet: I can do anything I want and not get caught.  It’s addictive. It’s a hold that whispers, ‘Push a little more and see if someone notices.’ Over time that whisper grows into a full-blown shout. And the deception holds true for a while until it is no longer true, and when it is no longer true we watch the media spectacle: the fabulous downfall….”

Sir Georg Solti, the conductor who led the Chicago Symphony for so many years, was sometimes the butt of harmless practical jokes.

One night he got even.

In Tel Aviv, he persuaded a rabbi to go over to the scheduled singer just before a concert—and thank the singer for agreeing to sing his part in Hebrew.

Upon hearing this, the singer was “stricken.”

(Sir Georg’s parents were named Stern and Rosenbaum. His father changed the boy’s name to Solti to shield him from anti-Semitism.)

“An artist who is a Jew is like a swimmer with one short arm.

“He has to swim twice as hard to reach the shore.” —

composer Gustav Mahler