Reggie Jackson

Dept. of Mountains Out of Molehills: Reggie Jackson’s Jewish Joke

So baseball great Reggie Jackson, haggling with an artist over a painting, jokingly asked him, “Are you Jewish?” A foolish comment, made all the more foolish by the fact that it was made in earshot of a New York Post video camera. The cameraman followed up by asking Jackson why he said that, to which…