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liant people. The first Genius 10-episode
series began on April 25 and the subject
is Albert Einstein (1879-1955), played
by Geoffrey Rush. The consensus of
advance reviews is that the series
depicts Einstein’s colorful life and multi-
faceted personality pretty accurately. The
series relied on the release, in the last
30 years, of Einstein’s huge collection of
correspondence by the Einstein Papers
Project in Israel. They also used as a
major source Walter Isaacson’s very
good 2007 biography, Einstein, His Life
and Universe.
I liked Isaacson’s book because it
explained Einstein’s science in a way
I could mostly understand. It also was
very good on how much his Jewish
background influenced him. Sadly, the
series’ reviews say that Genius is not
the place to get a lay understanding of
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In 2013, I wrote a column item about
CNN journalist Jake Tapper, now 48,
in which I said that it was likely that
Tapper would follow the path taken by
his two immediate CNN predecessors.
They were so reined-in by CNN’s bland
style that they got tepid ratings and were
canceled. I was surprised when a CNN
representative called me and pointed
out that Tapper’s ratings had just started
inching up. I told this rep that I was root-
ing for Tapper. But, in my heart, I thought
he wouldn’t last long if he wasn’t
allowed to be more “editorial.”
Well, Tapper managed to just survive
and now he is thriving in the ratings. The
Trump era has proven to be a ratings
boon for CNN. Ratings were helped by
the constant attacks on “the mainstream
media” by Trump; the Russia-ties scan-
dal; and the constant objectively false
statements issued by the White House/
the president. Tapper, like much of the
mainstream media, has been forced to
be more editorial. For example, many
seasoned reporters, like Tapper, have
dispensed with the tradition of calling
a false statement “a misstatement”
and just use the word “lie.” You can tell
Tapper doesn’t like to use this word,
but he feels compelled to. Like it or not,
using the word “lie” helps make his
reporting popular.
Tapper is probably the most “Jewish”
big-time anchor, ever. He attended

Stern

a Jewish day school; his sister-in-
law, Laura Hahn Tapper, 41, is a
Conservative rabbi; his brother, Aaron
Hahn Tapper, 43, is a Judaic stud-
ies professor and the author of the
recent book Judaisms: A 21st Century
Introduction to Jews and Jewish
Identities. In his book, Aaron recounts
how an Israeli yeshiva required him to
prove, through his own research, that
his mother’s conversion to Judaism met
Orthodox standards — he succeeded.
Tapper, whose wife is a Jew by
choice, doesn’t hide his background.
He wished former Homeland Security
Secretary Michael Chertoff, 63, a
“happy Passover” this year and he
took White House press secretary Sean
Spicer to task about his Hitler/Assad
statements, including the Spicer claim
that Hitler didn’t gas “his people.” Tapper
pointed out, as few others did, that Hitler
did kill “his people” with chemicals —
German Jews who were gassed were,
legally, Hitler’s countrymen. (Howard
Stern, 63, to his credit, independently
pointed out the same thing.) •