Beastie Boys Question

[Colonel_Major]

Ok, for some of you HUGE fans, this will seem like a dumb question, but me and a friend were having an argument. So could someone please help clear this up, 'are all of the beastie boys jews'? I know I am right, but he is here and thinks he knows everything.

Thanks

[Beckalina]

i think they all were, but yauch is now a Budist (did i spell that correctly) I am pretty sure mike and adam are still jewish

[Freakazoid03]

Yauch = converted to buddhism
Diamond, Horowitz = funky ass jews

[Johanna]

:rolleyes: adam h is the only jew, yauch is a buddhist and i'm not sure what mike is, but i'm pretty sure he's not jewish

[zorra_chiflada]

technically, adam h aint jewish because his mother wasn't. that's how it works.

[Shazam_21]

:rolleyes: adam h is the only jew, yauch is a buddhist and i'm not sure what mike is, but i'm pretty sure he's not jewish
i thought along the same lines

[brianavalentino]

Yeah but see my question is, is Horovitz a practicing Jew? And I thought Mike D was jewish too....maybe I'm wrong

[Thundercracker]

what are you guys talking about? Mike is Jewish!
Horovitz is also Jewish (even though his mom isn't), and Yauch is a funky-ass Buddhist.

[Daisy]

GENERALLY, in the Jewish religion the kids are whatever the mom is. So if the mom is Jewish the kids would be. I said, generally.

Obviously, you can be what you want but that's the "known" thing. It's because there is no question who the mother is.

Seriously.

I'm moving this to Frequent Post Archive.

[Raina]

what are you guys talking about? Mike is Jewish!
Horovitz is also Jewish (even though his mom isn't), and Yauch is a funky-ass Buddhist.

I'm pretty sure Buddhism is more of a philosophy than religion, thats how its supposed to be.

[instigator7022]

i think:
Diamond: Jew
Horovitz: Half Jew
Yauch: Buddhist

[beastiegirrl101]

They are All jewish....Yauch is not a buddist...in the early 1990's he was very much into Buddihism...but never converted. Come on...read the Q&A on the home page...gives all info there. ;)

[b-girl74]

what are you guys talking about? Mike is Jewish!
Horovitz is also Jewish (even though his mom isn't), and Yauch is a funky-ass Buddhist.

^ what he said!

[Chicka B]

I remember in an interview I read sometime or another, when they were asked their religion, Adam Horovitz said sandwhich. :confused: :p But Yauch is Jewish but is into Buddhism and Mike D is a Jew is that right? Blahhh, whatever.

[djc1980]

i read somewhere that they are all half jewish

[Pootytang]

I recall hearing something refering to them when they first got started in the music biz as "3 jewish middle class kids".

[midzi]

It's interesting that usually people who know nothing like to reply to such threads.

[midzi]

Read some interviews with the band.

[Pootytang]

Listen to Adam Sandlers 2nd hanukkah song and it will answer this question.

[midzi]

Have a good day.

[Chicka B]

Crotch pics? What the hell are you talking about, did I miss something?

Originally Posted by Pootytang
Listen to Adam Sandlers 2nd hanukkah song and it will answer this question.

Yeah I wasn't exactly sure, but that's where I got my answer. :o

[minorthreat]

:rolleyes: adam h is the only jew, yauch is a buddhist and i'm not sure what mike is, but i'm pretty sure he's not jewish

i think mike's christian

[icy manipulator]

john safran doesn't think adrock's jewish (!)

[CrankItUp!]

They are of a unique race of individuals, known as "The Beastie Breed". Therefore , they are referred to as "Beasties" and are uncomparable to anything else that exists.That is just how phenomenal and special they really are ! (y)

[Funkyfreshgrape]

I think they jews, from their last names!!!

[IronicAllure]

Adam Horovitz is half Jewish, his mom was Irish and is Father is Jewish.
Adam Yauch converted to buddism,one of his parents is Jewish and one is Catholic.
Mike Diamond is half Jewish.

[IronicAllure]

Adam Horovitz is half Jewish, his mom is Irish and his Father is Jewish.
Adam Yauch converted to buddism, one of his parents is Jewish and one is Catholic.
Mike Diamond is half Jewish.
They're all half-Jewish by race and they're all Jewish by religion, except Yauch who is buddist. (lb)
I'm also half-Jewish by race :D (y)

[Chicka B]

Hope this helps. :D

Adam: Biblical: name of the first man (Genesis 2-3). It probably derives from Hebrew adama earth; it is a common feature of creation legends that the god responsible fashioned the first human beings from earth or clay and breathed life into them. The name was subsequently borne by a 7th-century Irish abbot of Fermo in Italy. It has enjoyed something of a resurgence in the English-speaking world since the 1960s. In Hebrew it is a generic term for “man” (Genesis 5: 2) and has never been considered a personal name, although Hava “Eve” has enjoyed popularity among Jews. Derivatives: Irish Gaelic: Ádhamh. Scottish Gaelic: Àdhamh. Italian: Adamo. Spanish: Adán. Portuguese: Adão. Finnish: Aatami.Pet form: Scottish: Adif.

Yauch: means the americanized spelling of the southern German and Swiss surname Jauch. And Jauch means South and Swiss German topographic name from Middle High German jūch, a unit of measurement of land. Or from Eastern German, from a shortened form of the personal name Joachim. Joachim is German, French, and English, from the Hebrew personal name Yoyakim ‘God has granted (a son)’, which occurs in the Bible (Nehemiah 12:10) and was also born, according to medieval legend, by the father of the Virgin Mary.

Horovitz: Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Horowitz. Horowitz means the Jewish (Ashkenazic) habitational name from Hořovice in central Bohemia, now in the Czech Republic, which is named with a short form of a personal name formed with Hoř, as for example Hořimir, Hořislav.

Michael: English and German form of a common biblical name (meaning “who is like God?”) borne by one of the archangels, who is also regarded as a saint of the Catholic Church (cf. Gabriel and Raphael). In the Middle Ages, Michael was regarded as captain of the heavenly host (see Revelation 12: 7–9), symbol of the Church Militant, and patron of soldiers. He was often depicted bearing a flaming sword. Because of its sanctified warlike connotations, Michael was a popular name among early Christian military leaders, and was borne by eight Byzantine emperors, as well as by the founder (1596–1645) of the Romanov dynasty in Russia. The name is also borne by a Persian prince and ally of Belshazzar mentioned in the Book of Daniel. See also Michal. Cognates: Irish Gaelic: Mêcheál. Scottish Gaelic: Micheal. Welsh: Meical, Mihangel. French: Michel. Italian: Michele. Spanish, Portuguese: Miguel. Catalan: Miquel. Basque: Mikel. Romanian: Mihai. Swedish: Mikael. Danish, Norwegian: Mikkel, Mikael. Polish: Michal. Czech: Mich(a)el. Russian: Mikhail. Ukrainian: Mikhailo. Finnish: Mikko. Hungarian: Mihály.Short forms: English: Mike, Mick.Pet forms: English: Micky. Russian: Misha.Feminine forms: Latinate: Michaela (used in England and Germany); Micaela (used in Italy and Spain). French: Michèle, Michelle. Polish: Michalina.

Diamond: Jewish (Ashkenazic): Americanized form of a Jewish surname, spelled in various ways, derived from modern German Diamant, Demant ‘diamond’, or Yiddish dimet, going back to Middle High German dīemant (via Latin from Greek adamas ‘unconquerable’, genitive adamantos, a reference to the hardness of the stone). The name is mostly ornamental, one of the many Ashkenazic surnames based on mineral names, though in some cases it may have been adopted by a jeweler.
English: variant of Dayman (see Day). Forms with the excrescent d are not found before the 17th century; they are at least in part the result of folk etymology.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Diamáin ‘descendant of Diamán’, earlier Dêomá or Déamán, a diminutive of Dêoma, itself a pet form of Diarmaid (see McDermott).

[adrock14]

wow. chicka b if you typed all that then the starter of this thread should thank you. :) (y) ;) (!)

[Chicka B]

wow. chicka b if you typed all that then the starter of this thread should thank you. :) (y) ;) (!)

Haha that would be alot, but I could type that quick. I'm lazy though so I copied then pasted...ed. :cool:

[adrock14]

LOL :p :) ;) :D (y)

[DapperDiverge]

I would love to know why so many jewish people have last names that start as a gem / jewel or precious metal like Goldstein, Goldberg, Silverman, Pearlman, Silverstein, etc... or the whole last name is of a gem / jewel or precious metal like, Diamond, Ruby, Silver, etc... I mean I still haven't seen anything like Sapphire or Turquoise, Aquamarine, Emerald, etc...

I'm not hatin', I think those names are sweet :cool: ... it makes a person sound freakin' rich or expensive. I was thinkin' about changin' my last name into something like that. Mine is so common. :(

[tjpop]

I would love to know why so many jewish people have last names that start as a gem / jewel or precious metal like Goldstein, Goldberg, Silverman, Pearlman, Silverstein, etc... or the whole last name is of a gem / jewel or precious metal like, Diamond, Ruby, Silver, etc... I mean I still haven't seen anything like Sapphire or Turquoise, Aquamarine, Emerald, etc...

I'm not hatin', I think those names are sweet :cool: ... it makes a person sound freakin' rich or expensive. I was thinkin' about changin' my last name into something like that. Mine is so common. :(

Oh, you didn't know that's why the word Jew is in Jewelry?!

(I'm not hatin' either people. Nothing but one love. Just a little humor..)

[stjohn]

Well im a catholic,if its any consolation :)

[Nadia]

... is it really that important what religion they have/practice?
i'm italian, but i don't have an italian name, and my first name isn't italian either. so....

[voltanapricot]

Well im a catholic,if its any consolation :)
Oh, thank jayzuz!

[liberty_a320]

I'm pretty sure Buddhism is more of a philosophy than religion, thats how its supposed to be.

I think you're confusing Buddhism with Confucianism, which is a philosophy.

[marsdaddy]

All three were listed as Jewish on the VHI special "Jewtastic!" I'm not making this up.

I think I've seen Mike D rock a bindi.

[talita]

are you talkin about relligion or ethnicity?

my ehnicity is jewish, but my i am not adpept of the relligion, it makes me NOT JEWISH?

[Chicka B]

I donno, you are what you are and race is just something the society made up. Even though I posted all that shit before, but that's just because I found a site that said what names meant and I thought it was interesting. :D

[vickista]

I recall hearing something refering to them when they first got started in the music biz as "3 jewish middle class kids".


they were but later on mike d became buddist (or so Q magazine tells me) and yauch and horovitz were always jewish but they didnt really practrice the religion.

[ggirlballa]

they were but later on mike d became buddist (or so Q magazine tells me) and yauch and horovitz were always jewish but they didnt really practrice the religion.

yauch is the one practicing as a buddist not mike

[vickista]

yauch is the one practicing as a buddist not mike


mm yea thats wat i figured from reading the thread.