The Daily Show, hosted by Jon Leibowitz

Almost like a rallying cry, albeit a quiet one, Jewish director Judd Apatow appeared on Jon Stewart's talk show "The Daily Show" late last week and reminded him that many Jews feel the need to gentile-ify their name. Case in point, Jon Stewart himself, who was born Jon Leibowitz.

Apatow reminds Jon of this after describing a scene in his new film "Funny People" in which (Jewish) actor Seth Rogan is questioned by (Jewish) actor Adam Sandler about his decision to un-Jewify his last character's last name.

Then on Friday of last week Slate's Ron Rosenbaum wrote an open letter to Jon, also imploring him to get back to his Jewy roots.

Though no one is questioning the validity of Jon's background, it could make a nice statement if he kissed and made up with his given (Jewish) name.

Or maybe not, this entry was written by Jewish woman with the Irish-Catholic last name of "Savage." But it is indeed my given name.

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