NO_TABLE
When Loretta Met Bill on the Tarmac
On other news: who's J-ing who?
Analysis // Sanders vs. Bloomberg Scenario Is Like a Jewish Joke Turned Ominously Real
Two Jewish finalists in the Democratic race is a source of pride for U.S. Jews – as well as a reason for grave concern
The late and great Leo Rosten recounted in his book "Hooray for Yiddish" that whenever his father would marvel at the wonders of the United States, instead of using the staple quip “Only in America,” he would exclaim “America gonef!” The saying literally means “America the thief,” but in the mouths of Jewish immigrants to the United States, it evolved to signify their unending gratitude and admiration for the country that took them in and made them prosper.
Rosten recounts that his father, Sam Rosenberg of Lodz, would exclaim “America gonef” at least five times a day. If he were alive today to witness the Democratic primary race, Mr. Rosenberg would have surely doubled or tripled his daily output. As if it weren't amazing enough that one Jew is leading the Democratic pack, his main challenger could very well turn out to be yet another Jew. If Mad Magazine were still breathing, it might have replaced its legendary strip “Spy vs. Spy” with “Jew vs. Jew.” America gonef!
…
It is a veritable minefield for Israel, for Democrats and for the American Jewish community. "Two Jews enter a presidential race" may sound like the start of a good Jewish joke, but it has morphed into a surreal and potentially hazardous reality. On the other hand, two Jews is the basis of any solid dialogue in Yiddish literature and to paraphrase Tevye the Milkman’s familiar remedy to bad news in his talks with his creator Shalom Aleichem: “Enough with the tzures (troubles). Let’s talk about happier news. Have you heard about the coronavirus?”
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-sanders-vs-bloomberg-scenario-is-like-a-jewish-joke-turned-ominously-real-1.8558007
https://archive.is/GM8yY
Ilhan Omar DID marry her brother and said she would 'do what she had to do to get him "papers" to keep him in U.S.', reveals Somali community leader
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8013283/Ilhan-Omar-DID-marry-brother-reveals-Somali-community-leader.html
Terminal Velocity
02.01.99
Can Mike Bloomberg, self-made man's man and master of the real-time financial news universe, learn to think out of the box?
"My daughter is tall and busty and blonde," Michael Bloomberg is telling a table of Boston College graduates. "We went to China together. And what's a 16-year-old going to do on a business trip?" He pops another carefully buttered piece of bread in his mouth. "So I got her dates in every city in China." Remembering that I'm also at the table, he glares in my direction. "That's off the record!" he barks. It's typical Mike Bloomberg, wanting to have it both ways: imperious man of the people, coarse billionaire, earthy business leader, accessible control freak.
The alumni dinner at the New York Hilton, where Bloomberg is the keynote speaker, is in keeping with this media mogul's preferred persona. Amid the grandeur of the hotel's banquet hall, there is a tattiness befitting a man who claims to hate pretension, who speaks every day to his mother (still living, he tells the group proudly, "in the house we grew up in"). Bloomberg - a trim 5' 9", thinning brown hair streaked by silver, dressed in Wall Street's uniform of starched white shirt under pinstripe Paul Stuart suit - lectures the crowd on the perils of seductive technology, like a high school instructor. "We are replacing teachers with television, and we are relying on numbers in the workplace to tell us what to do. We are getting carried away by technology, by the tools."
https://archive.ph/jXAIs
https://www.wired.com/1999/02/bloomberg/