News Quiz: Natalie Portman, Jerry Seinfeld and Russell Crowe

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By Lenore Skenazy February 4, 2014

Jerry Seinfeld, Natalie Portman’s husband and a bevy of Swedish supermodels, to boot? What kind of Jewish News Quiz is this? The pandering kind! And why not? By the way, Russell Crowe is in here, too.

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