A LITTLE BACKGROUND, first...
For years, I've written the lyrics for the annual Purim shpiel at my synagogue. I always "borrow" the score from a different Broadway musical, then write new words to the songs, setting to music the age-old tale of how Queen Esther summoned up the chutzpah to save the Jews from extinction at the hands of wicked Haman.

From "Est Side Story" to "Haman, See Ya! (based on Mamma Mia), "The Zion Queen"(The Lion King), "Bye, Bye Haman," "CHairspray" and "Persia-y Girl" (a.k.a. Jersey Boys), I've written nearly 90 songs. But none quite sums up Jewish pride like 2010's grand finale from "South Pers-cific."

THERE IS NO ONE LIKE THE JEWS!

(sung to the tune of "There Is Nothing Like a Dame" from SOUTH PACIFIC)

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Juliana Margulies -- a Jew!
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Barbra Streisand -- sings like butta... and a JEW!
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Woody Allen -- A kvetchy Jew!

We've got Simons -- Neil and Paul
Both Rodgers and Hammerstein
We've got George and Ira Gershwin
And the great Leonard Bernstein
We've got Ed Koch, Michael Bloomberg
Those two mayors of New York.
What ain't we got?
We ain't got pork!
                                                  
We've got Wendy Wasserstein
We've got Woody Allen, too
And when Arthur Miller married
Marilyn became a Jew!
We've got Eli Wiesel, Philip Roth
And David Halberstam.
What ain't we got?
We ain't got ham!
                                                 
There is no one like the Jews!
No one in the world.
We are always in the news
'Cause there's nobody like the Jews!
                                                         
We've got something to put on
a clean white suit for
'Cause we always wear white on
Shavuot and Yom Kippur!
                                                  
There is no one like the Jews!
No one in the world
We are always in the news
'Cause there's nobody like the Jews!
                                                         
We've got Steven Spielberg's films
We've got Stephen Sondheim's shows
We've got Barbra Streisand's singing
Calvin Klein's designer clothes
We've got Julia Louis Dreyfus
Juliana Margulies
What ain't we got?
No Christmas trees!
                                                        
We have more than our share
of Nobel Prize winners,
Though, to be absolutely fair,
we also have Bernie Madoff
and more than our fair share
of sinners!
                                                    
There is no one like the Jews
No one in the world,
We are always in the news
'Cause there’s nobody like the Jews!
                                                           
There is no one you could choose
No one in the world
Who will pay their temple dues
Yes, there’s nobody like the Jews!
                                                     
There is absolutely no one
you could choose… like the Jews!
                                                     
We’ve got hunk Harrison Ford
who played Indiana Jones
We’ve got brothers Joel and Ethan,
Sasha Baron – all are Cohens,
We’ve got Ben Shalom Bernanke
To resolve this darn Recession.
What ain’t we got?
Got no confession!
                                                    
There is no one like the Jews
No one in the world
We are always in the news
‘Cause there’s nobody like the Jews!
                                                         
No one’s chosen like the Jews
No one in the world!
So our pride you must excuse
For there’s nobody like the Jews!
                                                   
No one has brains like the Jews.
Or complains like the Jews.
All the best doctors are Jews.
And even rock stars are Jews!
                                                  
Who writes songs like the Jews?
Or rights wrongs like the Jews?
There is no group that has contributed more
Who heals the sick and helps feed the poor
                                                                       

We’re the un-toppable

and unstoppable JEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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"Borat's" Sasha Baron Cohen -- a JEW!
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Harrison Ford -- a hunky JEW!
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Marilyn became a JEW!
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Julia Louis Dreyfus -- A funky JEW!

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