Aliza Davidovit - A Nice Jewish Girl Discusses The Middle-East, Words That Shaped Her

By Joel Leyden
Israel News Agency

Tel Aviv, Israel ---- January 24, 2011 ...... Aliza Davidovit is no dumb blonde. This delightful, clever and extremely intelligent woman can articulate any current affair from Islamic terrorism, freedom of speech, the Obama Presidency and Iran to g-spots, marriage, multiple orgasms and Judaism - all with equal ease and clarity.

Larry King describes her new book The Words That Shaped Me as both brilliant and hilarious while Jackie Mason says she has the brains of Henry Kissinger and the body of Marilyn Monroe.

In having dinner with Davidovit recently I would have to agree as I was having much difficulty as to where to place my attention. The sweet, interesting, enlightening words which flow out in a soft Marilyn Monroe whisper or her deep cleavage that would put the Grand Canyon to shame.

There is no more dangerous entity than a woman who is extremely intelligent, knowledgeable and sexy. Aliza hangs her hat on the same plateau with Cleopatra, Jackie Kennedy, Mata Hari, Evita and Madonna.

Who is Aliza Davidovit?

Aliza is a walking paradox. A former bikini contest winner, model, actress turned Rabbi's wife, who advocates for monogamy and is against casual and premarital sex. She is the girl with macro measurements and mini-outfits who also interviews the world's most famous faces from prime ministers to entertainment icons. She also writes a weekly blog, The Source, inspiring and has a devoted following across the world. Davidovit also appears regularly on Fox News Strategy Room and has a dynamic and devoted Facebook following.

Aliza Davidovit, who was born in Canada, is a classical pianist who speaks three languages. She is a contributing editor to numerous publications and a columnist for the popular news site World Net Daily. Aliza specializes in interviewing and writing about the world's most famous and influential people.

Her many interviews include, CNN's Larry King, Wolf Blitzer and Aaron Brown, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Bon Jovi keyboard player David Bryan, Elie Weisel, Ivana Trump, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Governor Eliot Spitzer, Everbody Loves Raymond’s Brad Garrett, PR Guru Howard Rubenstein, House Majority Leader, Congressman Steny Hoyer, Emmy Award winning actor, Brad Garret, Playboy’s Miss November, Israel’s Ambassador to the US, Danny Ayalon, billionaire entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, Israel’s richest man, Eitan Wertheimer, US Ambassador Nancy Brinker, founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, media mogul, Israel Asper, comedians Jackie Mason and Buddy Hackett, members of Knesset and so many others. She has been called the Barbara Walters of print journalism.

She is also Editor in Chief of WritEffect Productions Ltd., a publishing company engaged in writing biographical books for high-profile individuals, histories and Holocaust memoirs.

This Ivy league educated journalist with a Masters in Science has taken all her unusual life experiences and unfolded them in her new book The Words That Shaped Me: A journalist's brilliant, touching and hilarious journey through the dictionary and life. With wry social commentary and great wisdom, Aliza takes the reader on an adventure through the dictionary selecting the words that have shaped both her and society.

She learned early on in life that: "Words may be the most powerful tools in the world. They are like time-release capsules which either sustain us or poison us as we go."

Aliza also proves how very untrue the adage sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can never harm you is affirming words' power, she points out how even God created the world through words and how they continually create our realities.

She uses each word as a trampoline to launch her thoughts on every subject: religion, politics, weddings, sickness, fears, e-mails, adultery, and so much more. By book's end the reader not only learns new words but will never think of the words they already know the same again.

On death Aliza says: "if people are really off to "a better place" when they die how come more travel agents aren't booking flights there? How come the suicide hotline doesn't urge people to drop dead?"

On politicians Davidovit proclaims: "they must learn to keep their fruit in the loom."

"After one Middle East diplomat dropped his pants mid interview I was glad Israel had bigger missiles to back up his country. His was no weapon of mass destruction and not worth the risk of catching a Middle Yeast infection."

Davidovit states that orgasms are "the biggest manipulative fraud in existence. The whole world and all of life revolves around the orgasm," says Aliza. "Any girl that cries she’s having multiple orgasms is just a repetitive liar."

On Brazilian waxs: life has its hairy moments, but none that a good Brazilian wax can’t scare you into forgetting…and that God cant help you get through

On Judaism: "Judaism itself makes being a Jew a full time job. It is confusing being God's chosen people. Why doesn't He just pick on someone else?"

"I can't figure out why some people don't like Jews. How can you not when they produced the likes of Sigmund Freud, who gave every human the ability to legitimately blame his mother for everything, and Albert Einstein, who introduced the Theory of Relativity proving that relative to his hair style yours is not so bad?"

On fear, Davidovit articulates : "I think it is our fear of failure that shapes us most of all. We withdraw from life and challenges into a "safe zone" wherein we never discover all the great things we are. The retreat that fear offers us is not a gracious host nor is it a solid platform."

On the G-spot Davidovit says: "don’t you think it’s odd that only 12 men have ever walked on the moon yet they have been able to find water there, while billions of men have explored vaginas and they still haven’t found the G-spot?"

On adultery: "Peeved Hispanic partners may report Mexican adulterers to the INS, Hasidic ones to the IRS, Italians to the FBI. Then there’s the Polish philanderer who will most likely report on himself and a French cheater may need the Americans to come in and finish the job."

Davidovit says: "men have all the characteristics of a dog – except loyalty."

On Oprah: "She never let the words shackle her - a descendant of slaves who chose to free herself. Neither words nor hardships would she permit to be her taskmasters."

The Israel News Agency wanted to know what motivated her to write this book?

"I’ve been writing The Words That Shaped Me in my mind for over 20 years," says Davidovit.

"As a logophile, a journalist and a master in communications, I have long realized how the word is much mightier than the sword. I turn the question to you: How often have people discouraged you in your life by either calling you stupid, dumb, incapable, or, on the contrary, encouraged you with positive appellations?"

"By nature people are more inclined to believe the negative and those words remain etched in stone if we don’t break the rock and set them free. I personally have been trapped by certain words and resisted others but was always cognizant of how formative they are."

"I wrote The Words That Shaped Me because I have a brilliant story to tell. I also empathize with people who do not realize how words chain them and yank them along like a dog’s leash. But as I became empowered through recognizing the “words that shaped me” in my life, I felt compelled to reach out and empower others with a necessary moral: we have the ability to choose our own words to define who we are and what story we want to relay about ourselves."

Davidovit adds: "Although the words which impacted me may certainly be different from the ones that have affected others, they all fundamentally collaborate in squelching us or launching us. Hence the The Words That Shaped Me offers universal messages. For instance, never refer to yourself in self-effacing language; you are what you think you are. Never be a prisoner of someone else’s words; don’t let anyone define you and stifle your dreams with their deprecating vocabulary or reinforcing one for that matter.

Remember, “It’s not what they call you, it’s what you answer to.” I heard a great quote from Alan Watts which I wish I had heard earlier on in my life: “You can't get wet from the word water.” So, don’t let anyone try and drown you with their words."

"Oprah’s life story exemplifies our inner and own power over words. Everyone told her she wouldn’t make it. Yet she never let the words shackle her - a daughter of slaves who chose to free herself. Not words, nor hardships, would she permit to be her taskmasters. I write this book now because the time for freedom has arrived."

How did Larry King get involved?

"I have interviewed Larry King twice in the past and he found me to be a very good writer. When I asked him to read my book he did so with delight and was happy to offer me the generous quote he did for the cover. I've also interviewed the Jewish comedian Jackie Mason around 98 times and he says my articles about him always make him appear more interesting than he really is. He has always encouraged to me to write a book and was happy to endorse this one too."

What are your thoughts on Israel?

"Without the Jewish state every Jew is an orphan. We can walk the street proudly in the Diaspora because we have young Israeli men and women fighting for us and dying for us in the Jewish homeland. Sadly a new generation of Jews have no connection toward the Jewish state nor do they understand why it is vital to Jewish survival. They are quite deficient in history. Thus the challenge for today's Jews is not "to let my people go, but rather to let my people know." And when it comes to Obama and the settlements I say, "let me people grow."

Davidovit adds: "I am a strong believer in Netanyahu's statement that the only peace Israel can have, is a peace it can defend."

On Washington, Davidovit says: "The President of the US needs to stop bowing and bending to foreign leaders and needs to start standing up straight for America's loyal friends, such as Israel.

On Divorce? "Only optimistic people get divorced because they still believe that life can be good and better. As painful as it is I believe it is a sin to waste one's life and stay in an unhealthy relationship. However, this new generation needs to have a little more staying power and not head for the exit when their mate burns the toast. We've lost the ability to appreciate in this frenetic world always thinking something better is waiting for us."

Davidovit says there is a saying that every marriage has three rings: the engagement ring, the wedding ring and then the suffering.

"The problem today, in general, is that people care more about that big party called a wedding than the marriage that follows after it. My mother and father had nine people at their ceremony and were married for 38 blissful years. They had $98 to spend on a honeymoon, but their love, devotion, friendship and loyalty to each other was never on a budget."

"I have a very pessimistic view of big, fancy weddings. All they are conglomerations of hundreds of ill-wishers. The guests are for the most part jealous because they either have no one or are tired of the one they have; the in-laws already hate each other; the bridesmaids are all wishing that the bride should drop dead so they can dash to the altar in her stead; and everyone present becomes a food and fashion critic as they wrestle with a stuffed rubber chicken, steal the floral center pieces and start calculating if the gift they gave is commensurate with how much it cost the hosts per plate."

When asked about the flak she gets as an Orthodox Jew talking about orgasms and g-spots Davidovit responds: "My entrée into the religious world was made very difficult for me."

"The rabbis did not receive my yearnings for Judaism in a manner befitting my people: I was blonde, sexy, and fashionable; I didn’t fit into their mold. My outfits didn’t conform to their likings. I just don’t believe that God is posing as Joan Rivers and acting as a fashion critique damning souls by the neckline. Could it really be that the Book of Life He writes in every Yom Kippur is nothing more than a Best Dressed List?"

"Ironically, my people survived the Pharaohs; they survived Hitler; they survived the European pogroms, but my cleavage seems to pose a national threat that Ahmadinejad and his nuclear ambitions cannot equal. If it would have been another Jew who is less stubborn than I, perhaps she would have walked away forever. I remember when I interviewed actor Brad Garrett from Everyone Loves Raymond. He, too, told me how in his youth he got turned off by Judaism because of the cold reception he had received going to synagogue. I used to believe these rabbis owned God; I never realized we were all equal shareholders. Nonetheless, these self-appointed judges stole away my sense of belonging and never made me feel like I was Jewish enough for them. But I am a strong person and I live in purpose and with great principals and I don't need anyone's approval but my own. Sometimes it's a lonely road but it is always an honest one."

Davidovit says that the reason she chose such a sexy cover for the book is to help people break out of their stereotypical thinking.

"It turns out not every Muslim is a terrorist; not every Jew is sitting on his wallet; not every black is grabbing for someone else’s; not every Liberal is a communist, and not every Republican is a gun-toting bigot. Blondes can be smart, and a rabbis’ wife can be sexy. Open up your minds. Open up your lexicon of life. You can be a double D and also be three D: soul, sexy and smart. I won't let society put me in a box - I'll be in a box when I'm dead, in this life time I won't be limited by closed minded definitions."

Aliza is a published writer, author, journalist and former TV producer.

She has her BA from McGill University and a Master's of Science in journalism from Columbia University. She worked at ABC News "20/20" for six years with Connie Chung and in the ABC News Terrorism/Investigations Unit with John Miller. Aliza was also a producer and booker at the Fox News Channel where she helped launch Fox's premier live audience news show, Dayside. In addition, she hosted and produced her own Judaic TV show JtvNY for two years. She also makes frequent guest appearances on the Fox News' Strategy Room.

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