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March 14, 2009 | 9:28 pm

Is Jim Cramer Jewish?

Posted by Rob Eshman

Google the question, “Is Jim Cramer Jewish?”  Go ahead—about 500,000 web surfers already have.  For a long time, the first result to pop up was a forum entry at stormfront.something-or-other, the Internet’s safe harbour for Frustrated White Males.  The entry offers only this question, “Does anyone know if Jim Cramer is Jewish?”

Let’s resolve the deep mystery about whether a brash, media-savvy Harvard-educated financial expert with an East Coast accent and a last name derived from the German word for “peddler” is—SHOCKING!—Jewish.  Um, yes, he is.

But here’s the white Aryan dilemma—so is Jon Stewart.  It wasn’t stormfront.hate or the Klan who outed Cramer, it was The Daily Show host who took Cramer to the ethical woodshed. And Stewart is not, in fact, a descendant of the House of Stuart or the younger brother of Martha.  He was born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz.

So there you have it: Jews can be immoral (we’re talking about you, Mr. Shenanigans) and Jews can be moral crusaders.  Jews can be ideological warmongers (Did someone say Doug Feith?  Never mind, I thought I heard something.) and Jews can be at the forefront of fighting against wrongheaded wars (Robert Greenwald,  Sen. Russ Feingold). Jews can be dangerous demagogues fomenting hatred (Avigdor Lieberman) and Jews can be heroic peacemakers (Yitzhak Rabin).

I apologize if that short circuits any FRM’s black-and-white thought process, but it is the complicated truth about Jews, about Christians, about Muslims, about any group, race, religion or nationality. Cramer and Stewart, as I quickly and not too elegantly wrote in an earlier post, actually represent twin poles of Jewish thinking. To see them in conflict Thursday night was actually NOT, as the Stormfront denizens likely see it, yet another sign of Jewish chicanery.  It was a sign of Jewish complexity, with, you know, a few good jokes thrown in, too.

For more of our Cramer v. Stewart coverage, click here.

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Jon Stewart was born Jonathan Leibowitz, not Lieberman as you state in this post.

Comment by David Shankbone on 3/15/09 at 9:16 am

Yes all cultures have their good guys and bad guys, but Cramer is not my idea of a bad guy, Madoff is. What fascinates he is the role of the charities in the redemptive porcess, and the willingness of jews to accept the crooks among them as still one of their own. I have posted this numerous times and as yet no one as explained it. They all have charities, and as far as I can tell they all live happily ever after, after they get out of jail that is, as upstanding members of the jewish community, known for their charitable giving and not their criminal past. A giant jewish moral car wash, dirty money and reputation in,and clean and sparkling reputation and money out. More than a few of these well scrubbed individuals live to do it again. I guess it is like a car, getting dirty is part of driving.

Comment by rob on 3/15/09 at 12:41 pm

with the right wardrobe, cramer could easily pass for FWM.

Comment by Proton Soup on 3/15/09 at 6:27 pm

I am not Jewish and this is my first time to this site. I appreciate your honesty and frankness and find this site a refreshing change from so many other Jewish sites where the motto is; “OUr poop does not stink.”

Bless to all of you and may you have an abundance of wealth and happiness.

Jim

Comment by Jim Edwards on 3/16/09 at 11:58 am

He IS Jewish.  And Raised in Pennsylvania.

Comment by steve on 3/16/09 at 2:29 pm

Fustrated white males please. Why is it ok for Jewery are any other enthic group to have their own forums? But if whites have it their called fustrated white males. Sorry your hypocracy doesn’t fly any longer.By the way Stormfront must also be a place for fustrated white females. There are alot of whites fustrated, fustrated with non-wite bullsit

Comment by words of meaningless on 3/17/09 at 9:43 am

well said

Comment by mike on 4/01/09 at 11:49 am

I think, he is Jewish. Interesting article.

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Comment by Создание сайтов в Киеве on 8/11/09 at 11:35 am

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