Jews

Nate Bloom
Special to the Jewish News

16- Football Roundup

Following is the most accurate list
(1). of Jewish players in the NFL. Jewish
Sports Review (JSR) magazine aided
me.
A lot of Jewish fans think there is
some cluster of "unknown" Jewish
pros out there. The fact is that by
the time players reach the NFL, JSR
has run down virtually every Jewish
player. Now and again, a half-Jewish
player, who was raised secular, is
uncovered after he reaches the pros.
Such players number about one
every three years.
Here, the 2012-13 list: Greg
Camarillo, 30, wide receiver, New
Orleans; Gabe Carimi, 24, right
tackle, Chicago; Antonio Garay, 32,
nose tackle, San Diego; Erik Lorig,
26, fullback, Tampa Bay; Taylor Mays,
24, strong safety, Cincinnati; Adam
Podlesh, 29, punter, Chicago; Geoff
Schwartz, 26, outside linebacker,
Minnesota; and
Geoff's brother,
rookie Mitchell
Schwartz, 23,
outside tackle,
Carolina.
The brothers
Schwartz, Carimi
Podlesh
and Podlesh
have two Jewish
parents; Garay and Mays, who were
raised Jewish, and Camarillo, who
was raised secular, have Jewish
mothers/non-Jewish fathers; Lorig,
raised secular, has a Jewish father.
Footnotes: Released in the off-sea-
son or pre-season: Kyle Kosier, OG,
Dallas; Igor Olshansky, DE, Miami;
and Sage Rosenfels, QB, Minnesota.
Also: Brian de la Puente, center,
New Orleans, has been removed
from the JSR list because he has
only one Jewish grandparent — not
two as previously reported.
Also: Wikipedia, the user-edited
encyclopedia, is incorrect about
what JSR says about Adam
Goldberg (tackle, Minnesota).
Goldberg's father is Jewish, but he
was raised in his mother's Christian
faith. "Wiki" says that JSR reported
that Goldberg now considers himself
Jewish. JSR has never reported this.

Movie News
In 2010, Josh Radnor, 38, the star
of TV's How I Met Your Mother,
directed, wrote and starred in
the romantic comedy-drama
Happythankyoumoreplease. It had
some good moments but didn't
charm the critics. His new film,
Liberal Arts, which he also wrote,

directed and stars
in, is scheduled to
open Friday, Oct.
26.
The plot: Jesse
Fisher (Radnor),
newly single and
uninspired by his
Radnor
job, leaps at a
chance to speak at
the retirement dinner of his favorite
college professor (Richard Jenkins).
While on campus, he meets and
becomes infatuated with Zibby, a
beautiful, cultured and precocious
college sophomore (Elizabeth Olsen).
Can it work?
Opening Oct. 5 is Frankenweenie,
Tim Burton's new animated film, a
high-tech homage to classic hor-
ror films. It was filmed in black and
white and then rendered into 3-D.
The plot: Victor Frankenstein, a
child scientist, is devastated by the
death of Sparky, his dog. He uses
science to bring Sparky back to life,
but havoc ensues when Sparky gets
out and roams around town. Winona
Ryder, 40, is the voice of Elsa, a
kind next-door-neighbor who is
Victor's classmate and love interest.
Martin Landau, 84, voices Victor's
wise but eccentric science teacher.

Twitter Greetings
Here are some celebrity Rosh
Hashanah tweets I found:
Olympic gold medalist Aly
Raisman, 18 ("Happy Jewish New
Year to all."); Entourage actress
Emmanuelle Chriqui, 34 ("Shana
tova to all who celebrate the Jewish
new year ... wishing you only sweet
things this year and always ... have
a beautiful holiday."); Paula Adbul,
50 ("I'm looking forward to a lovely
Rosh Hashanah."); singer Lisa
Loeb, 44 ("L'shana tova ! Have a
sweet new year. Time for apples and
honey."); Larry King, 78 ("From my
Jewish heart to all of you — a very
happy Jewish new year. May we be
blessed with good times and peace.");
Joan Rivers, 79 ("Today is the start
of the Jewish new year and the High
Holidays. May this year bring peace,
prosperity and health for all."); TV
actress (2 Broke Girls) Kat Dennings,
26 ("Let your Jewishness flag fly on
these holy days, y'all.").
Dennnings' tweet was retweeted by
rap star Drake, 25.
Drake's 2012 Rosh
Hashanah dinner
celebration with a
couple of his bud-
dies was the sub-
ject of an article
on the MTV.com
Dennings
website.

We didn't start the
fire, but we're still
fascinated

By Russ Olwell

Eastern Michigan University's Jewish Studies Program will present
distinguished historian Pamela Nadell on Oct. 16 at the EMU Student
Center Ballroom. Her public lecture focuses on the Triangle Shirtwaist
factory fire of 1911.
Nadell, who is the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women's and Gender
History at American University, will address the issue of why the fire
remains an important part of American history and why it is relevant
to people today — more than 100 years since it occurred.
The fire was one of the biggest news stories of its day. People across
the world read about the tragedy. Even a century later, people are still
writing, talking and making movies about the events of that day.
"The fire burned into memory the stories of victims whose lives
were cut short, and, for a century, has commanded the attention of
historians, filmmakers and writers," Nadell said.
She believes it is an event all Americans need to know about.
Nadell said the fire was an important event for Americans for
several reasons. First, the death toll of the fire was remarkable — the
fire killed 146 workers, who represented a cross section of factory
labor in New York City. The majority of workers who died were Jews,
with the next largest group Italian. The majority of victims were
women, working in unsafe factory conditions.
"Safety measures, which we take for granted today — fire escapes
that can hold the weight of scores of women and men, exit doors
which open outward, ladders which can reach above the seventh
story of a city skyscraper — did not exist then," she said. "The fire
shocked the nation and compelled a coalition of activists to demand
the government regulate industrial workplaces to protect working
women and men."
The story of the women who died in this fire is an important part
of the history of Jewish women in America and the topic of Nadell's
next book. Nadell believes the topic of the fire is part of Jewish studies
as well as labor history and women's history.
"The Triangle Factory was owned by Jews; the leaders of the strike
there in 1909, part of the 'Uprising of the 20,000; were young Jewish
women," she said. "Some of the loudest voices crying foul in its
aftermath were also Jews. Of course, the fire belongs to the history
of the American labor movement, but it is also a chapter, a very
significant chapter, in the American Jewish experience."
Nadell is the author of many works in Jewish and women's history,
including Women Who Would Be Rabbis: A History of Women's
Ordination, 1889-1985 (Beacon Press, 1998), Conservative Judaism
in America: A Biographical Dictionary and Sourcebook (1988)
and is co-author of Three Hundred and Fifty Years: An Album of
American Jewish Memory (2005). Her most recent book, co-edited
with Jonathan D. Sarna and Lance Sussman is New Perspectives in
American Jewish History (2010).

Russ Olwell is professor of EMU History and director of the Gear Up program.

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