{"id":42144,"date":"2018-04-10T06:47:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T12:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=42144"},"modified":"2018-04-10T06:47:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T12:47:25","slug":"does-qb-josh-rosen-want-to-play-in-ny-over-cleveland-because-there-are-more-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/does-qb-josh-rosen-want-to-play-in-ny-over-cleveland-because-there-are-more-jews\/","title":{"rendered":"Does QB Josh Rosen want to play in NY over Cleveland because there are more Jews?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1412410\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(JTA) \u2014 Top NFL quarterback prospect Josh Rosen would prefer playing in New York rather than Cleveland because of its larger Jewish community, two ESPN radio shows suggested.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The radio discussions were first&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thebiglead.com\/2018\/04\/04\/stephen-a-smith-jewish-community-a-factor-in-josh-rosen-preference-of-new-york-over-cleveland\/\">highlighted<\/a>&nbsp;by The Big Lead, a Gannett sports blog.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_42145\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/josh-rosen.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42145\" class=\"wp-image-42145 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/josh-rosen-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/josh-rosen-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/josh-rosen-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/josh-rosen.jpg 880w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/198;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42145\" class=\"wp-image-42145 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/josh-rosen-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/josh-rosen-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/josh-rosen-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/josh-rosen.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-42145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh Rosen calling a play against the University of Arizona at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., Oct. 1, 2016. (Sean M. Haffey\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Stephen A. Smith, speaking Wednesday on his ESPN show, discussed comments earlier this month by Rosen\u2019s former coach at UCLA, Jim Mora. The coach told the NFL Network that if he were running the Cleveland Browns, he would take USC quarterback Sam Darnold over Rosen. Mora said it was \u201cbecause of fit\u201d and cited Darnold\u2019s \u201cblue-collar, gritty attitude.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith said Wednesday that Mora \u201cmay have been doing it to dissuade the Cleveland Browns from picking him because Josh Rosen, according to my sources, would prefer to be in New York. He\u2019s Jewish, there\u2019s a stronger Jewish community, he\u2019d rather be in the New York market than the Cleveland market, blah, blah, blah. We don\u2019t know, but it\u2019s some of the things that we\u2019ve heard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The hosts of ESPN\u2019s morning show in Los Angeles \u2014 Keyshawn Johnson, Jorge Sedano and LZ Granderson \u2014 had suggested a day earlier that Rosen would be more comfortable in New York because his father is a doctor and he comes from a more affluent background.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you talk about his religion, I believe Josh is Jewish. New York. Big Jewish community. Much like L.A.,\u201d one host said. \u201cPeople gravitate to people like them, all I\u2019m saying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another host added: \u201cIf he is an observing Jewish individual who is embraced by the local community, that will certainly raise his ball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The hosts looked up the cities with the largest Jewish community and Cleveland did not appear in their top 10 despite its some 80,000 members.<\/p>\n<p>The quarterback\u2019s father is Charles Rosen, a noted Jewish orthopedic surgeon. His mother, Liz Lippincott, is Quaker and is the great-great-granddaughter of Joseph Wharton, who founded the prestigious Wharton business school at the University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>A 2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepostgame.com\/blog\/phenom\/201408\/josh-rosen-quarterback-jewish-catholic-ucla-st-john-bosco-football\">profile<\/a>&nbsp;noted that Rosen became a bar mitzvah and attends seder every Passover, but he also celebrates Christmas and he called himself \u201ckind of an atheist.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Does%20QB%20Josh%20Rosen%20want%20to%20play%20in%20NY%20over%20Cleveland%20because%20there%20are%20more%20Jews%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[6128,8790,8795,9284,8788,494,9285],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42146,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42144\/revisions\/42146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}