NEW YORK (JTA) – 87 year old Woody Allen stepped into a different kind of starring role this week: the good samaritan who saves someone with the Heimlich maneuver.
The embattled Jewish Oscar winner helped his friend, Andrew Stein, a former Manhattan borough president, when Stein choked on a piece of pork at the Caravaggio restaurant on the Upper East Side last Tuesday, the New York Post reported.
“I am embarrassed to say it, but Woody actually saved my life,” said Stein, who is Jewish. “I normally order fish, but this time I went for the pork.”
Allen, Stein and Allen’s wife Soon-Yi Previn were joined at the dinner by the prominent lawyer and political analyst Alan Dershowitz.
“It really was like a scene from one of his movies,” Stein told the Post, which noted that the diminutive Allen leapt to the rescue with “surprising strength and vigor,” according to witnesses.
The longtime power player Stein, who was also president of the New York City Council from 1986-1994, shortened his name from Finkelstein when he entered politics. His father, Jerry Finkelstein, was the publisher of the New York Law Journal and his brother, Jimmy Finkelstein, is also a media mogul, having founded The Messenger after partially owning The Hollywood Reporter and The Hill. Stein, a Democrat, left politics in the mid-1990s.
Stein failed to pay over $1 million in income tax in 2008, leading to a sentencing of 500 hours of community service.
In a recent op-ed co-authored with Dershowitz titled “Why Biden might be the Dems’ last pro-Israel president,” Stein wrote that he will now be voting Republican because of the Democratic Party’s stance on Israel. (Dershowitz wrote that he “is planning to remain a Democrat and vote for Biden while seeking to marginalize the radical anti-Israel elements in that party.”)
As the Post reported, Allen has saved another person with the Heimlich maneuver at an Upper East Side Italian restaurant: In 1992, he sprang to the rescue of Jean Doumanian, a former “Saturday Night Live” producer, at Primola on 2nd Avenue.
Dear Jewish Brothers and Sisters,
PLEASE STOP using the phrase “good Samaritan”.
EXPLANATION:
The phrase “good Samaritan” comes from a parable in the Christian Bible.
In this very famous parable, a man who desperately needs help is ignored by a Kohen and a Levi. Then a Samaritan comes and rescues the desperate man.
This anti-Jewish parable strongly implies that the worst non-Jews [for example, the Samaritans, who were enemies of the Jewish people] are better people than the best Jews [for example, the Kohen and the Levi].
Therefore, this phrase should never be used by any Jew [except for the ignorant, wicked, self-hating Jews who write for The New York Times, and other far-Leftist publications.]
Thank you.
Where is the ‘please report Lashon Harah’ link to press for stories? I see this option only in the reader comments section.
Seems like a warning from hashem . I hope this guy does teshuva and never eats pork
Dershowitz seems to hang around pedophiles does he not? Epstein? Woody Allen?
Why was it necessary to report what he was eating?
It’s ironic that VIN has a button to report a comment as Lashon Harah, yet an article, even when it clearly needs, doesn’t.
Changing your last name from “Finkelstein” to “Stein” to sound less Jewish is like changing “Hebrewbergsheqelhoarder” to “Hebrewberg” for the same reason.
My Ruv said it was caused by Soon-Yi’s untsnius open-toed shoes.
I guess no one remembers how Andrew Stein went after the nursing home industry in the 1970s
sounds like a joke
Such a hate towards another , no morals !
He prevented his friend from getting a Kapporah…the guy can’t do anything right.
So sick. This is a total chillul Hashem. So sad.
And is anyone surprised he married a non Jewish women then married his adopted daughter. The only thing Jewish about him is his name and playing the nubach Jew