EXCLUSIVE: Whoopi Goldberg’s fake Jewish past: The View host wrote 1993 recipe for ‘Jewish American Princess Fried Chicken’ then claimed SHE was a practicing Jew – as insiders slam ‘decades’ of ‘disgusting’ appropriation and anti-Semitism
- In 1993, Whoopi Goldberg submitted a recipe to a cookbook that was made-up of recipes by the waspy residents of a Connecticut county
- She called it Jewish American Princess Fried Chicken and joked about Jewish women sending their ‘chauffeurs’ to shop, and having ‘Cook’ prepare the meal
- ‘Watch your nails!’ she joked in the recipe which finished: ‘You must be exhausted!’
- The Anti-Defamation League slammed it at the time as ‘insulting’ and ‘anti-Semitic’
- Whoopi’s agent defended her by claiming she is Jewish herself, so can’t be anti-Semitic
- Whoopi said in the past that she chose the Jewish name Goldberg to be her stage-name because she has ‘Jewish ancestors’
- It has been reported elsewhere that she chose it because her mother told her she’d get more auditions in Hollywood if people thought she was Jewish
- Noa Tishby, an Israeli actress, writer and activist, told DailyMail.com the recipe re-enforced harmful stereotypes
- Eve Barlow, a writer and journalist, called Whoopi’s actions ‘disgustingly appropriated’
Whoopi Goldberg’s suspension from The View this week is the pinnacle of a years-long habit of making off-color remarks about Jewish people that includes a recipe she wrote for a celebrity cookbook in the 1990s called ‘Jewish American Princess Fried Chicken’, DailyMail.com can reveal.
In 1993, Goldberg – whose real name is Caryn Johnson – submitted the recipe to Cooking in The Litchfield Hills, a charity cookbook comprised of recipes from the well-heeled residents of the leafy Connecticut suburb.
DailyMail.com exclusively obtained a copy of the long-forgotten cookbook, where Whoopi’s recipe mocking Jewish-American women glaringly stands out amongst friendlier submissions like legend Diane Sawyer’s ‘roasted potato skins with scallion dip’, the late Eartha Kitt’s ‘summer zucchini soup with nasturtium blossoms’ and Oscar de la Renta’s ‘fresh pumpkin and crab soup’.
Former US Senator Joe Lieberman’s submission was for ‘noodle pudding’, while fashion designer Diane Von Furstenberg submitted ‘sour cream stuffed chicken with new potatoes’.
Whoopi’s recipe reads: ‘Send chauffeur to your favorite butcher shop for the chicken (save the brown paper bag). Have your cook 1) Melt equal parts oil and butter 3/4 deep in skillet over moderate heat.
‘2) Put flour, seasoned with remaining ingredients, into brown paper bag. 3) Rinse chicken parts and place in bag.
‘Then you tightly close top of bag (watch your nails) and shake 10 times.
‘Hand bag to Cook, go dress for dinner. While you dress, have Cook preheat oven to 350 degrees and brown chicken slowly in skillet. When evenly browned, have Cook place chicken in dish in oven. Have Cook prepare rest of meal while you touch up your makeup.
‘In about half an hour, voila! Dinner is served! You must be exhausted.’
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Whoopi Goldberg’s ‘Jewish American Princess Fried Chicken’ recipe from 1993 that the ADL called ‘insulting’ and ‘anti-Semitic’
Whoopi Goldberg this week after being suspended from The View for saying the Holocaust ‘was not based on race’
At the time, the recipe was slammed by none other than The Anti-Defamation League, whose current CEO went on The View on Tuesday to tell Whoopi why she’d been so offensive earlier this week, before she was suspended.
They called the recipe ‘insulting’ and ‘anti-Semitic’.
‘It’s a lousy recipe with insensitive and anti-Semitic ingredients. Whoopi should know better.
‘She needs some sensitivity training, unfortunately. The good people who published it need some sensitivity training too,’ Abraham Foxman, the National Director of the ADL at the time, said.
The 1993 cookbook gathered recipes from the well-heeled residents of Connecticut to raise money for charity
In response to the outrage, Whoopi’s agent at the time – Brad Cafarelli – offered a quick explanation: she is Jewish.
‘Maybe (the critics) are not aware that Whoopi is Jewish, so she is certainly not anti-Semitic,’ he said.
It was one of many ambiguous statements about her faith.
In 1997, four years later, she said in an interview with Playbill: ‘My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic — none of which I subscribe to, by the way, as I don’t belive in man-made religions.’
She said she took the name Goldberg, which is unavoidably Jewish, from a ‘Jewish ancestor’.
When she was talking about the Holocaust this week, claiming it was ‘not about race’, she made no mention of whether or not she belongs to the Jewish faith. Nor did she mention it when she was apologizing, or in subsequent statements.
‘I stand with the Jewish people as they know I always have,’ she said.
She has also released a range of holiday sweaters in the past, including one that featured an Octopus on the front holding a Menora.
Cafarelli did not respond to DailyMail.com’s inquiries about his comments in the 1990s regarding Whoopi’s religion.
TV industry insiders say it is high time Whoopi is held accountable what they described as a ‘clear pattern of anti-Semitism.’
‘This is a clear pattern of anti-Semitism, it wasn’t a one-off.
‘Hard to see how ABC News tolerates this and claims they are changing their wretched culture with a straight face.
‘Just when you thought Whoopi should send Jeff Zucker a fruit basket, another ABC grenade hits,’ one TV veteran told DailyMail.com.
Noa Tishby, an Israeli activist, writer and actress, told DailyMail.com that Whoopi’s recipe upholds a deeply-rooted desire to mock Jewish women and their families for being successful.
Diane Sawyer’s potato skins, DVF’s stuffed chicken and Oscar de la Renta’s pumpkin soup: The OTHER recipes from the waspy Connecticut cookbook
‘The term Jewish American Princess or JAP was created as a microaggression to bash and suppress Jewish upward mobility. That’s what it was used for: to mock Jewish women for their families’ success.
‘In the world we live in today in which every minority can scream and complain about microaggressions, we need to be extra careful and acknowledge Jewish microaggressions, which exist everywhere.
‘JAP is a term that needs to go away and never return. I hope Whoopi has not used it since the 90s and I sure hope that this is a matter of [having] a bad sense of humor, that is outdated, and not taken alongside her recent horrific remarks to indicate her belief system.’
Tishby added that Whoopi’s ambiguity on whether or not she is Jewish is ‘confusing’.
‘I am very confused by Whoopi Goldberg’s position on her Jewishness I’m excited to hear her clear that up.’
She added that had anyone else made the remarks that Whoopi did about the Holocaust in reference to a different minority, they’d have been fired on the spot.
‘If I or anyone else was to god forbid say that any other massacre – the Armenian genocide, Darfur, Tulsa – or any other..
‘If I was to say that any of those massacres were not based in race then I would have been fired by the commercial break.
‘People have lost their jobs for way less.’
Journalist and writer Eve Barlow, who recently penned a scathing Substack column on why Whoopi’s comments were so harmful, told DailyMail.com that Whoopi’s past comments on the subject and her flip-flopping on whether or not she is actually Jewish is ‘disgustingly appropriated’.
‘As for Whoopi Goldberg’s genealogy, I don’t have access to her 23 and Me – I don’t know.
‘But what I would cast suspicion on is whether or not this was the truth or if it was an extension of an established lie where she posts that she is Jewish.
In 2017, Whoopi released a line of ‘ugly holiday sweaters’. Some featured a black Santa Clause, others had a mixed-race couple kissing under mistletoe. This one depicted an Octopus as a Menora
‘If it was someone else appropriating another culture, we would call it out immediately but Jews don’t seem to count as much – that is what we are seeing here.
‘It’s absurd and it’s a double standard.’
She poured cold water on Whoopi’s agent’s justification for the recipe that she is Jewish, calling it a ‘bogus misnomer’.
Whoopi has told in the past of choosing her stage name and Goldberg because her mother thought it would ‘get it further in Hollywood’.
Barlow says that also plays into the anti-Semitic trope that Jews ‘run’ Hollywood and only give jobs to each other.
‘We know the story of the origin of Whoopi Goldberg’s surname. She had ingested this very popular idea among people who come from the school of thought of Louis Farrakhan and the Black Hebrew Israelites that the Jews run Hollywood.
‘She changed her name to Goldberg because she thought it would open more doors for her in Hollywood,’ Barlow added.
She does not believe Whoopi should be fired and does not subscribe to cancel culture, but is eager to see how The View fills its show over the next two weeks and once Whoopi returns, if she does.
ABC declined to comment on Whoopi’s remarks or the recipe.
Whoopi, in her apology on The View on Tuesday, said she had ‘always’ been an ally to the Jewish community.
Israeli actress and activist Noa Tishby (left) told DailyMail.com that Whoopi’s recipe re-enforced a decades-old microaggression designed to mock Jewish women. Eve Barlow (right) , a writer and journalist, said the way Whoopi has posited herself through the years is ‘disgustingly appropriated’ and absurd
A source close to her this week pointed out some of her past acts of alliance, like in 2018 when she disavowed the neo-Nazi responsible for the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting on The View.
‘When did it become the norm for us to be afraid to go and worship?’ she said at the time.
In other episodes of The View has has moderated segments focused on Holocaust education and interviewed Holocaust survivors about their experiences.
In 2017, she interviewed a reformed neo-Nazi who credited his Jewish boss with changing his views.
Whoopi on Tuesday said she was wrong to have said that the Holocaust ‘was not about race’.
She was placed on an unpaid, two-week suspension as punishment for the comments.
DailyMail.com learned exclusively that new ABC boss Kim Godwin threw the book at Whoopi after Tuesday’s show and was who decided that she would not be paid during her time off.
‘ABC understands that this is an opinion based show, the facts will always be paramount. We want robust discussion but can’t have the hosts saying things that are false and not based in fact.
‘What Whoopi said was not based in fact and was highly inflammatory and offensive.
‘It’s a new day at ABC News. Kim [Godwin] wants her entire team to be held accountable for their words and actions.
‘There has been a real power vacuum on The View since Barbara Walters retired, because she ran the show with an iron first.
‘After Barbara it became a free for all and Whoopi and Joy could do and say whatever they wanted. This is now coming to an end.
‘Kim is drawing a line in the sand for all staff across ABC News and is attempting to build a corporate culture based on truth, facts, accountability and kindness.
‘If you do not operate within this prism, Kim will take action. Whoopi’s suspension highlights this.
‘Disney is aware that there are huge cultural issues within ABC News and Kim has the backing of Mickey Mouse to fix up the news division and set it on a different course.
‘Whoopi is welcome to return after her unpaid two week suspension. She took the news well and understood where the network was coming from.’
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