After helping in the early stages of HuffPost [ 2 ] and the Drudge Report , [ 3 ] Breitbart created Breitbart News , now a far-right [ 4 ] news and opinion website, which has been described as misogynistic , xenophobic , and racist by academics and journalists. When he was three weeks old, he was adopted by Gerald and Arlene Breitbart, a restaurant owner and banker respectively, and grew up in the affluent neighborhood of Brentwood.
Breitbart attended Brentwood School , one of the country's top private schools, but did not distinguish himself, saying: "My sense of humor saved me". Joel Pollak wrote about how Breitbart's life and fire extended to Judaism: 'Andrew was proudly, and playfully, Jewish.
In the last days of his life he wondered openly about observing Shabbat , even as he continued to tease me about not eating bacon and shrimp cocktails.
More than once he burst into a Hebrew school song or parts of his bar mitzva portion while working at his desk across from mine β partly to amuse me and partly to entertain himself. Breitbart would remain "proudly and playfully Jewish" throughout his life.
The liberal-Left Jewish weekly, The Forward , placed him on their list of the top 50 most influential American Jews. And the Israeli people, I adore and I love.
