About JakeRake

A creature of the Washington, D.C., suburban sprawl, Jake Rake is a graduate of the University of Maryland. His interests include baseball, rock 'n roll, and not feeling feelings. Jake is a contributor to The Onion, Gelf, SNY's The Nooner and The Business Corporation, posts daily on JakeRake.com and hangs out like crazy.  He works on a couch in Jewcy's Dumbo office and recently achieved his lifelong goal of posting a link to a novelty hardcore porn site on the website of an online Jewish magazine.

Tough Guys Dance At Bar Mitzvahs

By JakeRake October 16, 2008

The tribe lost some of its street cred this week, as pioneering sports handicapper and mobbed-out casino manager Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal died Monday of a heart attack at his home in Miami Beach. Rosenthal’s life and career were the basis … Read More

Jewcy Zeitgeist: Christians Love Israel, Armenians Not So Much

By JakeRake October 16, 2008

  • In a banner moment for cultural relations, 3,000 Christians gathered for a march in Jerusalem as a show of support for Christian Zionism. • There is tension amongst victims of 20th century genocide, as an Armenian activist group … Read More

Will Jesse Jackson Please Shut Up About Obama and Israel?

By JakeRake October 15, 2008

Jesse Jackson, who three and a half months ago expressed his desire to amputate Obama’s testicles, apparently believes that "Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades" remain influential, but will lose much of their prominence if and when Obama … Read More

Shocker: Jews Shouldering Blame for Economic Crisis

By JakeRake October 14, 2008

Given the classic anti-Semitic mantra that the Jews control the world’s money, it is only natural that the current class of anti-Semites are upset that those same Jews are currently doing a lousy job of controlling the world’s money. (What … Read More

Update: 100 People Make ‘Schlep’ to Florida on Sarah Silverman’s Whim

By JakeRake October 14, 2008

The way New York Times tells it, one would think that Sarah Silverman’s The Great Schlep has been a failure of epic proportions. The article states that to date, about 100 people have made the comedienne-dictated aliyah, a number that … Read More

Matt Litman: Does Sarah Palin Know Any Jews?

By JakeRake October 6, 2008

The Alaska Jewish population is 3,425. 3,425. There are more Jews at Zabar’s this morning than live in Alaska. Let me ask you a question: how many of those Jewish people in Alaska do you think Sarah Palin has met, … Read More

Jewish US Army Private: I Was Beaten by Anti-Semitic Soldiers

By JakeRake October 3, 2008

A Jewish-American soldier stationed at Fort Benning in Georgia was taken to a local hospital last week after being badly beaten by fellow privates in what his father believes was an act of anti-Semitic violence. Pvt. Michael Handman had complained … Read More