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Title: Jon Corzine's Religion Post by: DownWithTheLeft on May 28, 2007, 08:14:32 PM I was suprised at how many people agree with me that they thought he was Jewish. I think it deserves it's own topic
Title: Re: Jon Corzine's Religion Post by: Alcon on May 28, 2007, 08:22:24 PM Why do people think he's Jewish? He's of plain-gentile Dutch extraction, I thought?
Title: Re: Jon Corzine's Religion Post by: King on May 28, 2007, 08:22:40 PM Zoroastrian.
Title: Re: Jon Corzine's Religion Post by: DownWithTheLeft on May 28, 2007, 08:25:23 PM Why do people think he's Jewish? He's of plain-gentile Dutch extraction, I thought? His last name sounds Jewish, people associate it because Lautenberg is Jewish (I mean I think he is but I'm starting to doubt), and his beard and glasses. The guy looks Jewish and his name sounds like it, what more does it take? Title: Re: Jon Corzine's Religion Post by: Alcon on May 28, 2007, 08:27:38 PM Why do people think he's Jewish? He's of plain-gentile Dutch extraction, I thought? His last name sounds Jewish, people associate it because Lautenberg is Jewish (I mean I think he is but I'm starting to doubt), and his beard and glasses. The guy looks Jewish and his name sounds like it, what more does it take? "Corzine" doesn't sound all that Jewish to me. It sounds Dutch. Title: Re: Jon Corzine's Religion Post by: DownWithTheLeft on May 28, 2007, 08:32:26 PM Why do people think he's Jewish? He's of plain-gentile Dutch extraction, I thought? His last name sounds Jewish, people associate it because Lautenberg is Jewish (I mean I think he is but I'm starting to doubt), and his beard and glasses. The guy looks Jewish and his name sounds like it, what more does it take? "Corzine" doesn't sound all that Jewish to me. It sounds Dutch. Try saying with a Jewish accent, it flows really well. Conan is the one who brought that up to me and I thought so after thinking about it. However, it was the looks that he me convinced. Title: Re: Jon Corzine's Religion Post by: Keystone Phil on May 28, 2007, 11:12:24 PM Why do people think he's Jewish? He's of plain-gentile Dutch extraction, I thought? Uh...take a look at him sometime. Title: Re: Jon Corzine's Religion Post by: Adlai Stevenson on May 29, 2007, 11:52:47 AM I have to admit I thought he was Jewish. Isn't he Catholic in fact?
Title: Re: Jon Corzine's Religion Post by: Verily on May 29, 2007, 12:22:13 PM I have to admit I thought he was Jewish. Isn't he Catholic in fact? UCC. Title: Re: Jon Corzine's Religion Post by: Sensei on May 29, 2007, 12:37:44 PM John Corzine is in fact a member of the United Church of Christ, according to wiki.
Title: Re: Jon Corzine's Religion Post by: Kevin on May 29, 2007, 12:47:59 PM I thought he was Italian or Polish?
Title: Re: Jon Corzine's Religion Post by: Tender Branson on May 29, 2007, 12:53:20 PM Before I looked it up I thought the guy was a typical American whose ancestors came there 300 years ago and that he was either Catholic or Protestant. Corzine doesn´t sound Dutch at ALL and I know lots of Dutch people ...
Title: Re: Jon Corzine's Religion Post by: minionofmidas on May 29, 2007, 12:55:33 PM Before I looked it up I thought the guy was a typical American whose ancestors came there 300 years ago and that he was either Catholic or Protestant. Corzine doesn´t sound Dutch at ALL and I know lots of Dutch people ... Title: Re: Jon Corzine's Religion Post by: Tender Branson on May 29, 2007, 01:07:15 PM Before I looked it up I thought the guy was a typical American whose ancestors came there 300 years ago and that he was either Catholic or Protestant. Corzine doesn´t sound Dutch at ALL and I know lots of Dutch people ... Yeah, if you look at it in this way ... I´m just flooded by the Van Nistelroy, Van Bronkhorst, Seedorf, Robben, Verkerk, Kluivert, van Haestregt, Spierenburg, Westerholt, den Adel types of names, but not the americanized writing/spelling of Corzine. Actually I always pronounced it as "Car-Sin" ... :P Title: Re: Jon Corzine's Religion Post by: Tender Branson on May 29, 2007, 01:09:47 PM Actually I always pronounced it as "Car-Sin" ... :P Woops ! Didn´t the guy have a car accident lately ... ? Title: Re: Jon Corzine's Religion Post by: Small Business Owner of Any Repute on May 31, 2007, 03:30:55 PM John Corzine is in fact a member of the United Church of Christ, according to wiki. And, in fact, much was made of the fact that Jon Corzine and Bob Franks actually attended the same church together every Sunday in Summit back in 2000. Title: Re: Jon Corzine's Religion Post by: J. J. on May 31, 2007, 06:23:01 PM He was born in Illinois.
Title: Re: Jon Corzine's Religion Post by: Chancellor Tanterterg on June 04, 2007, 11:52:50 AM Whatever religion he is paid to be part of ;)
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