Meet the presidential tribe

Knocking the Jewish faith? President Bill Clinton’s daughter Chelsea married Marc Mezvinsky. Jewish. President Joe Biden’s daughter Ashley married Dr. Howard Krein. Jewish. His late son Beau married Hallie Olivere. Jewish. That other son Hunter’s other wife — Melissa Cohen. Jewish. All Joe Biden kids married Jewish. As for Kennedys, Caroline Kennedy married Ed Schlossberg. Jewish. And A-1 daughter Ivanka switched religions to marry Jared Kushner. Jewish.

If you drop down to VP, Kamala’s husband Douglas Emhoff is a Jew.

1952. Jerusalem. As I’ve reported, my late husband was with Israel’s fourth Prime Minister Golda Meir. Joey Adams began its original desperately needed money-raising operation Bonds for Israel.

1974. NYC. The country’s Foreign Minister Abba Eban, who later taught at Columbia, told Joey in response to his nation’s critics — his exact words: “Better condemnation than consolation.”

The greatest recycler: Hollywood

SHOVE AI. Hardest working Hollywood screenwriter is a Xerox machine.

2024 is schlepping sequels: “Deadpool 3” stars Ryan Reynolds but throws in Hugh Jackman’s “Wolverine.” Comes also “Kung Fu Panda 4.” In black and white and color. Like who cares. Plus, “Bad Boys 4” with Will Smith badder now. Also older. If he was smarter he’d slap his agent. Comes now another “Ghostbusters,” “Sonic the Hedgehog,” “Inside Out” and a zillionth “Planet of the Apes.” They haven’t run out of planets? Better they should try Planet Fitness.

More. A “Lion King” prequel. Should be called “Lion Cub” or “Lion Around” but is called “Mufasa,” which sounds like a foreign canape. There’s another “Dune” for Timothée Chalamet to play nice in the sandbox and Joaquin Phoenix goes Gallic in “Joker: Folie à Deux.” That’s French for “semi lousy.” More. “Despicable Me 4,” “Beetlejuice 2,” “Smile 2,” “Saw 11,” “Terrifier 3,” “Venom 3” and “Gladiator (probably) 212”.

Plus something called “Wicked 1.” Clearly a rush for tickets to any prequel of “Wicked.” I’m now awaiting “Gone With the Wind 12.”

More. TaDa! — a new upgraded “Wizard of Oz.” I mean, please. Go to the can, zip up, come out and now watch Clark Gable doing it to Vivien Leigh. On the Yellow Brick Road. With popcorn.

Today’s rates of exchange

MUMBLES: Gift-giving roots began in wintertime pagan rituals stemming from the Three Wise Men, the Magi, who brought gifts to infant Jesus. So I’m in Hermès buying a birthday scarf for a cousin who’s a judge in Princeton. It was crowded. And lest you wonder what’s with our economy and where’s our money going, every customer was Japanese.

And the change in prices? In 2000, food cost cents. Dozen eggs — 91 cents. Bread, 93. 1944 a man’s suit was $50, a woman’s in cotton — $7.89. Handbag — forget Vuitton — $7.50. Shirt — $2.50. Coat — $50.

Also. A friend sent me a slim book. From Maine. Not via snail mail. Via one official shipping company known to us all. Overnight to close by NYC? FedEx charged nearly $300. She went for UPS, $150, but that meant a five-day delivery. It was cheaper to buy another book.

COLUMBUS discovered this great God-given land for one reason. To give Europe, Middle East and anything left of the world a place from which to borrow money.

Only in America, kids, only in America.

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