Yes, another umpteenth sweet, Jewish NYer goes to that great gig in
the sky! ehe Excerpt from Jewish Telegraphic Agency: http://
tinyurl.com/32y52t : "Beverly Sills, the premier American opera diva
born to first-generation Jewish Americans, has died. She died Monday
at her Manhattan home of inoperable lung cancer. She was 78. Sills
was born Belle Silverman in the Crown Heights area of Brooklyn. Her
father, Morris, was an insurance broker from Romania, and her mother,
Shirley, was born in Russia. Sills was pushed into show business at
age 4, her mother believing her to be a "Jewish Shirley Temple,"
according to The New York Times." -D, NYC "New York City has the zoo,
aquarium, museums, fashion center, diamond center, U.N., Statue of
Liberty; and it's got the Yanks and the Mets; and it's got every kind
of food but lousy; and it's the home of the one-namers like Harrison,
Dustin, Calvin, Katie, Rosie, Bianca, Bernadette, Matt, Bryant,
Vanessa, Julia, Halle, Gwyneth, Donald, Ivana, Puffy" - CINDY ADAMS
(umpteenth sweet, Jewish NYer).."The people of New York are proud of
their state and proud to be at the 'center of the universe.'
Everything revolves around New York." - JOHN T. WHITE, WORLD RESERVE
MONETARY EXCHANGE.."What I took back, because of my exposure to the
Jewish music of the '30s and the '40s in my upbringing with my father,
was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my
character. This desire to make people laugh" - PETE TOWNSHEND.."In New
York, even if you're Catholic,
you're Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you're going to be
Goyish, even if you're Jewish!"ehe - LENNY BRUCE (b. Leonard Alfred
Schneider, LI, NY -umpteenth sweet , Jewish NYer).."Yes, I am a Jew,
and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal
savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the Temple of
Solomon" - BENJAMIN DISRAELI (1804-1881, first Jewish Prime Minister
of England, responding to Irish Roman Catholic leader Daniel O'
Connell in the House of Commons, who cast aspersions on his Jewish
ancestry).."I've never felt uncomfortable with my level of fame. I
don't get hassled. Maybe sometimes in a minor way, but New Yorkers are
much too cool for that. The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but
not to be a celebrity" - RACHEL WEISZ (sweet YIDDISH-BRITISH, Oscar
for Best Supporting Actress - The Constant Gardener, currently
residing in Bklyn with Jewish beau who also happens to be named
Darrin! LOL!).."The Jews of New York City today make up the largest,
richest, most creative Jewish community in the world. Yet little more
than a hundred years ago, most of them were desperately poor, living
in teeming immigrant neighborhoods. How these Jews - through struggle,
education, and determination - transformed themselves and their city
is a great American success story. Jewish New Yorkers powered major
city businesses such as the garment and media industries, reinvented
Broadway theatre, and helped invent the modern labor movement. They
also won Nobel Prizes and introduced the United States to such
delights as pastrami, Egg Creams, and an intimitable form of Jewish
comedy" - GREATEST JEWISH CITY IN THE WORLD (Introduction - "Jewish
New York - Notable Neighborhoods & Memorable Moments" by Ira
Wolfman).."The Jewish cultural contribution to New York City has been
nothing short of remarkable. Jewish writers, musicians, poets,
playwrights, lyricists, composers, painters, sculptors, actors,
directors, comics, and entertainers have greatly enriched the lively
artistic scene for which New York is well-known. In addition, Jewish
patronage of the arts has played a major role in making the city's
cultural tapestry one of the most vivid in the world" - FROM YIDDISH
THEATRE TO AMERICAN CULTURE - (ibid).."When I was at school I thought
it was fun to lark about and show off - and so I did a lot of that -
and my mother had always wanted to be an actress - and she was a nice
Jewish girl - and they didn't do that sort of thing in those days - so
she used to put me in for what we used to call music festivals - and I
would do poetry and stuff like that" - MARIAM MARGOLYES (sweet Yiddish
British).."I'd like to send this one out for Lou and Rachel..and all
the kids and P.S. 192..Coney Island Baby..Man, I'd swear, I'd give the
whole thing up for you" - LOU REED (family changed name from
Rabinowitz, umpteenth sweet, Jewish NYer).."'Cause everyone's your
friend in New York City..And everything looks beautiful when you're
young and pretty..The streets are paved with diamonds and there's just
so much to see..But the best thing about New York City is you and
me..Statue of Liberty, Staten Island Ferry, Co-op City, Katz's and
Tiffany's..Central Park, Brooklyn Bridge, The Empire State where Dylan
lived..Coney Island (America's First Amusement Park) and Times Square,
Rockefeller Center..Wish I was there" - THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS.."More
history happened in New York than in any other place in the nation" -
KENNETH T. JACKSON, Columbia University Professor, Encyclopedia of New
York.."If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where
else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself" -
JOHN LENNON (one of NY's most famous adoptive sons, Strawberry Fields
Memorial, Central Park - world's most famous recreational park).."My
mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish. My background is very
much that style of writing, Neil Simon (sweet NYer) and Mel Brooks
(sweet Nyer), and 'Your Show of Show' guys are what I grew up loving.
So, I probably drew on my New York background and my Jewish background
for that, sure" - MATTHEW BRODERICK (umpteenth sweet, Jewish
NYer).."New York is the only real city-city" - TRUMAN CAPOTE.."The
extraordinary European Jews who emigrated to New York were enriching
the city's intellectual life with an intensity that has probably never
been equaled anywhere during a comparable period of time. I was raised
largely by these Jews...They were my teachers; they were my employers;
they were my friends. They introduced me to a world of books and ideas
that I didn't know existed" - MARLON BRANDO (excerpt from "Songs My
Mother Taught Me").."New York City is the central home for this entire
planet. The Olympics draws contestants from all countries. Wherever
they come from we've got a family for them, a neighborhood for them, a
group who speak their language, cook their food, support their
religion, understand their needs. We have someone for everyone" -
JUDGE JUDY (umpteenth sweet, Jewish NYer).."There's a boat dat's
leavin' soon for New York. Come wid me, dat's where we belong, sister.
You an' me kin live dat high life in New York. Come wid me, dere you
can't go wrong, sister. I'll buy you de swellest mansion - up on upper
Fi'th Avenue - An' through Harlem we'll go struttin'" - ELLA
FITZGERALD (penned by George & Ira Gershwin (b. Gershowitz, umpteenth
sweet, Jewish NYers - greatest pop- songwriters of all-
time).."."Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team!" -
BILLY JOEL (umpteenth sweet, Jewish NYer -one of the Top 100 selling
artists of all-time).."I moved into my apartment Sept. 10. In one day
I saw the worst but also the best of New York. Its people are
glorious, marvelous. The best. First-run movies? We got it. Tops in
theater? We got it. Ballet, opera, circus, concerts. More culture
here, more in the way of arts than anywhere in the world. New York is
the Athens of today" - MATT DAMON.."One of the great mysteries that
has always puzzled me is how Jews, who account for such a tiny
fraction of the world's population, have been able to achieve so much
and excel in so many different fields - science, music, medicine,
literature, arts, business and more. If you listed the most
influential people of the last hundred years, three at the top of the
list would be Einstein, Freud and Marx; all were Jews. Many more
belong on the list, yet Jews comprise at most less than 3 percent of
the United States population. They are an amazing people. Imagine the
persecution they endured over the centuries: pogroms, temple burnings,
Cossack raids, uprootings of families, their dispersal to the winds
and the Holocaust. After the Diaspora, they could not own land or
worship in much of the world; they were prohibited from voting and
were told where to live. Yet their children survived and Jews became
by far the most accomplished people per capita that the world has ever
produced." - MARLON BRANDO (excerpt from "SONGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT
ME.."New York is simply a distillation of the United States, the most
of everything, the conclusive proof that there is an American
civilization. New York is casual, intellectual, subtle, effective, and
devastatingly witty. But her sophisticated appearance is the thinnest
of veneers. Beneath it there is power, virility, determination and
sense of destiny" - RAYMOND F. LOEWY, 1964.."1/3 of all American
multimillionaires are tallied as Jewish; 45%% of the top 40 of the
Forbes 400 richest Americans are Jewish, yet they comprise a measly 2%%
of the American populace" - STEVEN SILBIGER ("The Phenomenon of The
Jews" -2000).."Jewish education has, over the years, brought to New
York State the fruits of a proud heritage of learning, a history of
scholarly achievement and a tradition of progressive educational
involvement." - NELSON ROCKEFELLER (former US V.P., NY Governor -
1959-73)
http://tinyurl.com/3juvb (New York Jewish History)
http://www.steinerstudios.com (Steiner Studios - latest movie studio
to be founded by sweets at the Brooklyn (largest Orthodox population
in the US, if not the world) Navy Yard - new billion dollar movie
studio - largest production facility east of Los Angeles)
http://tinyurl.com/3npsf (NYC - safest, largest city in the US)
http://tinyurl.com/3qkd3 (NYC Statistics & Fun Facts)
http://tinyurl.com/3c6kk (Top 10 Places America Goes To Have Fun -
Times Square)
http://tinyurl.com/3nyhl (America's 5 Most/Least Expensive Cities To
Live In: #1 - NYC - most expensive)
http://tinyurl.com/nqp8w (Forbes: Most Expensive Zip Codes: #1 -
11962, Sagaponack, NY - Hamptons; NY - NY State & NYC appear 20+ more
times)
http://tinyurl.com/pyz6a (Top 10 Places To Live & Work For Those Under
35 - NY, NY)
http://tinyurl.com/qs7la (World's Most Expensive Hotel Suites - #1 -
Plaza Hotel, NY, NY)
http://tinyurl.com/7hexr (Best States For Raising Healthy Kids: #2 -
NY)
http://tinyurl.com/46f53 (NY, NY - Capital Of The World)
http://www.forbes.com (NY: 3 of Top 5 Most Expensive Homes in the US)
http://tinyurl.com/5zmb6 (Temple Emanu-El, NYC - World's Largest
Synagogue)
http://tinyurl.com/5gs58 (Brach's - America's Largest Kosher
Supermarket, NY)
http://tinyurl.com/5phxf (US Study - Jews Richer Because Of Religion)
http://tinyurl.com/5gd3p (A Study In Differences - Are Jews Smarter?)
http://tinyurl.com/38m6o (Jewish population of the US by State)
http://tinyurl.com/666cx (Jewish population of the World)
http://tinyurl.com/68ttu (Jewish Nobel Prizes)
http://tinyurl.com/6qb5e (Is It True - Do Jews Win More Nobel Prizes
than anyone else?)
http://tinyurl.com/4cz9j (Tel-Aviv - Top 10 High-Tech Cities In The
World)
http://tinyurl.com/6exvb (Phenomenon Of The Jews)
http://tinyurl.com/ihif (Jews, IQs & Nobel Laureates)
http://tinyurl.com/5tn7u (Do Jews Run Hollywood!? You Bet They do, and
what of it? - sweet Jew Ben Stein - E! Online)