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On January 11, 1999, a
nervous 37-year-old comedian who could have passed for a college
student settled into a host’s chair that was too high, wearing a gray
suit that looked too large. “Honestly, I feel like this is my bar
mitzvah,” he told actor Michael J. Fox, the guest sitting opposite him.
“I’ve never worn something like this, and I have a rash like you
wouldn’t believe.”
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In the public
square, Stewart may be the perfect Jewish ambassador for our times:
smart but not arrogant, extremely funny but not mean—a valedictorian,
most popular, best-looking and class clown all wrapped into one.
So, is Jon Stewart, to ask that annoying question, good for the Jews? As Fareed Zakaria, the editor of Newsweek International, puts it, “Are you serious? How could Jon Stewart not be good for the Jews?”
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