More Deceptively non-Jewish Names

The name game was quite popular on its first go around, so we've decided to bring it back for an encore tour. Without further ado, here are some more names you'd think were Jewish, if you'd been raised in a Kosher cave:

George Steinbrenner- Not the only man nicknamed the boss, with a Jewish sounding last name.

Mike Mordecai- Montreal Expos legend watched the franchise get sent into exodus.

Joseph Ratzinger- Yeah, he's the pope, but I could swear I've been to his niece's Bat-Mitzvah.

Carl Sandburg- The two time Pulitzer Prize winner, auhtor of the Rootabaga Stries, and penner of numerous fanfares for the common man, was Swedish-American.

Kevin Kline- The rhyme they teach at hebrew school goes, 'E before I if its a Jewish Guy.'

Yanni- Yanni prefers the term 'contemporary instrumental' for his music over the term 'new age.' I prefer the term 'Yanni, Greek Youth Freestyle swimming Record Holder,' over the shudder inducing, 'Yanni, multiplatinum recording artist and author of a New York Times Best-Seller.'

Sergey Sidorsky- The Belarussian Prime Minister has authored more than 40 scientific publications, none of which are Siddurs. He's also earned the title distinctive title  'Honored Workman of the Republic of Belarus.' 

Thein Sein- A dyslexic UN official could easily mistake the Burmese Prime Minister for an Israeli Cabinet Member.

Napoleon Kaufman- Perhaps the most successful Kaufman in the history of Miami. He now works as a pastor in Dublin, California.

David Eckstein- The pint-sized world series MVP has a name that just screams Roman Catholic, right?

Bernie Williams- The Yankee great Bernie Williams shares a name with half a dozen old schnorrer's outside the Carnegie Deli.

Bernie Mac- Could easily be the son of an Irish immigrant father and Jewish Mother in 1930s New York.

Bernie Kosar- Former quarterback is now millions in debt because put his money in Arena Football in Cleveland. He would have been better off putting it with...

Bernie Madoff- Just kidding, he's Jewish, sorry.

Hopefully you're not listening out for these names on the b-side to The Chanukah Song, Part VII.

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