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Message: <br /><br /> If you are having trouble reading this email, you may view this article online at: http://www.jweekly.com/39515/full/39515/more-deceptively-non-jewish-names/ <br /><br /> <b>More Deceptively non-Jewish Names</b> <br /> Tuesday, August 11, 2009 | by samuel raphael franco <br /><br /><p>The name game was quite popular on its <a href="/blog/full/38481/deceptively-non-jewish-names/" title="Deceptively non-Jewish Names">first go around</a>, 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:</p> <p> </p> <p>George Steinbrenner- Not the only man nicknamed the boss, with a Jewish sounding last name.</p> <p> </p> <p>Mike Mordecai- Montreal Expos legend watched the franchise get sent into exodus.</p> <p> </p> <p>Joseph Ratzinger- Yeah, he's the pope, but I could swear I've been to his niece's Bat-Mitzvah.</p> <p> </p> <p>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.</p> <p> </p> <p>Kevin Kline- The rhyme they teach at hebrew school goes, 'E before I if its a Jewish Guy.'</p> <p> </p> <p>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.'</p> <p> </p> <p>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.' </p> <p> </p> <p>Thein Sein- A dyslexic UN official could easily mistake the Burmese Prime Minister for an Israeli Cabinet Member.</p> <p> </p> <p>Napoleon Kaufman- Perhaps the most successful Kaufman in the history of Miami. He now works as a pastor in Dublin, California.</p> <p> </p> <p>David Eckstein- The pint-sized world series MVP has a name that just screams Roman Catholic, right?</p> <p> </p> <p>Bernie Williams- The Yankee great Bernie Williams shares a name with half a dozen old schnorrer's outside the Carnegie Deli.</p> <p> </p> <p>Bernie Mac- Could easily be the son of an Irish immigrant father and Jewish Mother in 1930s New York.</p> <p> </p> <p>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...</p> <p> </p> <p>Bernie Madoff- Just kidding, he's Jewish, sorry.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Hopefully you're not listening out for these names on the b-side to The Chanukah Song, Part VII.</p> <p>Got more names? Send them along to <a href="mailto:Samuel@Jweekly.com">Samuel@Jweekly.com</a></p>

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