How smart is Julius Genachowski?
According to his Wikipedia bio:
Genachowski grew up in Great Neck, New York and received his B.A. in history in 1985 magna cum laude, from Columbia College, Columbia University, where he was an editor of the Columbia Daily Spectator. He received his J.D. in 1991 from Harvard Law School, where he was a notes editor at the Harvard Law Review when it was headed by Barack Obama, who graduated in the same year. After graduating from Harvard, also magna cum laude, Genachowski clerked for the Honorable Abner J. Mikva on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and then at the U.S. Supreme Court for two years, for Justices William J. Brennan and David Souter.
And how Jewish?
Again, from Wikipedia:
His parents are Eastern European Jews who survived the Holocaust. His cousin, Menachem Genack, is an Orthodox rabbi and the CEO of the Orthodox Union Kosher Division.
(Being a Holocaust survivor doesn't make a person very Jewish -- or Jewish at all. Under Hitler's racial laws, any person with one Jewish grandparent was considered a Jew and subject to internment in a concentration camp.)
Pretty funny that the media guy has the long and very Jew-y name, while the rabbi has the short, Anglicized name.
Maybe I should send Mr. Genachowski a copy of my book Significant Moments.
Coinicidentally, James P. Denvir III, Esq. used to be a partner at Akin Gump with a substantial FCC practice when I worked there between 1988-1991. He occupied a corner office, so I assume he had some importance in the firm. I had the paranoid suspicion that Mr. Denvir knew who I was, though I don't know why he would have known my identity. James Denvir is now a partner with Boies, Schiller and Flexner. Telephone: 202 895 7560.
http://www.bsfllp.com/lawyers/data/0011
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