Jewish poker professionals

Courtesy Flush · #1 06-26-2006, 08:26 AM

I just found out that The Grinder is Israeli and it got me to thinking about how many other pros out there are fellow Jews that I wasn't aware of.

Help me complete this list. Forgive any misspellings.

Barry Greenstein
Howard Lederer
David Sklansky
Eli Elezera
Michael Mizrachi
Phil Gordon
Mike Matusow
Gabe Kaplan
Cory Zeidman

By the way, I'm refering to the ethnicity, not the religion, as I understand that a lot of these guys are atheists and such.

KSOT · #2 06-26-2006, 08:33 AM

Doyle & Todd Brunson, Hoyt Corkins, Johny Chan.

Don Olney · #3 06-26-2006, 08:34 AM

David Levi ? The guy who was a pro soccer player at one time.

doc_1982 · #4 06-26-2006, 08:37 AM

Phil Gordon? Really?

Tatarana · #5 06-26-2006, 08:43 AM

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Can you explain this ?

Courtesy Flush · #6 06-26-2006, 08:46 AM

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Israeli ancestory. For example, Barry G is a Jew, but he is also an atheist.

nation · #7 06-26-2006, 08:58 AM

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Israeli ancestory. For example, Barry G is a Jew, but he is also an atheist.

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Umm, how can he be a Jew and an atheist? Jew implies following the Jewish religion. If you mean from Israel in ancestry then I follow you.

Courtesy Flush · #8 06-26-2006, 09:00 AM

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Umm, how can he be a Jew and an atheist? Jew implies following the Jewish religion. If you mean from Israel in ancestry then I follow you.

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It can be used either way, a lot of people are confused about that.

Jew ( P ) Pronunciation Key (j)
n.
1 - An adherent of Judaism as a religion or culture.
2 - A member of the widely dispersed people originally descended from the ancient Hebrews and sharing an ethnic heritage based on Judaism.
3 - A native or inhabitant of the ancient kingdom of Judah.

Tatarana · #9 06-26-2006, 09:02 AM

I know a woman whose parents were catholic and now she is converted.
Do you consider her as a Jew ? And her kids ?

Courtesy Flush · #10 06-26-2006, 09:04 AM

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I know a woman whose parents were catholic and now she is converted.
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By religion yes, by ethnicity no. Can we drop this discussion now? It's very overdone and pointless.