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Is Nicki Minaj Jewish?

No, pop singer Nicki Minaj is not a Jew. She is multiracial — of African, Trinidadian and Indo-Asian descent (Times).She has riled up the Church with her song performance at the Grammy Awards.Catholic League takes aim at MinajA leading Catholic activist group is upset with Nicki Minaj for her exorcism-themed performance at the Grammy Awards, condemning the rapper for the ...

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Is Mitt Romney Jewish?

No Mitt Romney is not a Jew. He is a Mormon.There are those who argue that Romney is not even a Christian because Mormons are not Christians. That is a question that the Mormon Church has cleverly blurred since the 1980s. (See the text that we bolded in the article below.)Though he used the term only once in his 2007  “Faith ...

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Is Mitch Albom Jewish?

Yes, best selling author Mitch Albom is a Jew from New Jersey.We heard him speak tonight at the Jewish Theological Seminary in NYC. He reprised  many vignettes from his book in what we have to say was more of an artistic performance by an outstanding talent than a lecture.In the give-and-take after the lecture-performance, we told Albom that we use ...

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Is Mike Tyson Jewish?

Yes, Mike Tyson is converting to become a Jew.The former world champion boxer was the subject of a glowing essay in the New York Times Magazine, Mike Tyson Moves to the Suburbs by Daphne Merkin, who describes in beautiful lyrical fashion the terms, “In which the ex-world champion learns to love the boring life.”Tyson was so impressed with Merkin, he ...

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Is Mark Zuckerberg Jewish?

Yes Mark Zuckerberg is a Jew. He was named Time Magazine’s man of the year for 2010.He was born in White Plains, New York to Karen, a psychiatrist, and Edward, a dentist. He grew up in Dobbs Ferry, New York.Zuckerberg was raised Jewish. He had a bar mitzvah when he turned 13.  He describes himself now as an atheist.At Ardsley ...

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Is Madonna Jewish?

No, superstar singer and dancer Madonna is not a Jew. She was born and brought up Catholic. But in recent years she has been linked to the Jewish mystical practice called Kabbalah.On Madonna’s 2005 album, “Confessions on a Dance Floor” the tenth track is controversial because it is called Isaac and contains allusions to the Kabbalah. Rabbis in Israel (mistakenly) thought Madonna ...

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Is Leon Panetta Jewish?

No Leon Panetta is not a Jew. He is a Catholic.Barack Obama named Panetta Director of the Central Intelligence Agency in his administration.Update: President Obama will nominate CIA Director Leon Panetta as secretary of defense, replacing Robert M. GatesRead more : @ tzvee.blogspot.comReaders found more information by searching for:Leon Panetta jewish (2)is leon panetta jewish (1)Leon Panetta jewish? (1)You might also like:Is Robert Gibbs ...

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Is Larry David Jewish?

Yes Larry David is a Jew. He was born in 1947 to a Jewish family in the neighborhood of Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, New York.He now has written a twisted essay about golf in the New Yorker, filed under the keywords: Golf; Sports; Elisabeth Kübler-Ross; “On Death and Dying”; Anger; Denial; Bargaining – really strange.Read More: @ tzvee.blogspot.comReaders found more information ...

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Is Lady Gaga Jewish?

No, pop star, Lady Gaga is not a Jew. Her birth name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta and she is Catholic. Wikipedia explains that, “Stefani was born March 28, 1986, the eldest child of Joseph Germanotta, an Italian American internet entrepreneur, and Cynthia Bissett… At the age of 11, Germanotta attended Convent of the Sacred Heart, a private Roman Catholic ...

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Is Justin Bieber Jewish?

Is Justin Bieber Jewish? Is Natalie Portman’s fiancee, Benjamin Millepied, Jewish? Based on my Web research, neither one is Jewish. However, there are many people wondering these questions and doing what curious people do in the Digital Age — turning to Google.There are two components to blogging I enjoy most. First, I love writing. Second, I love looking at the ...

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Is it kosher to celebrate Memorial Day?

I don’t recall ever hearing that Memorial Day wasn’t a kosher holiday. It was never considered one of the goyishe holidays and I think I recall that the Rabbis in yeshiva had nice things to say about it. No, they didn’t like the fact that random alcohol checkpoints were flung about the city and everyone decided to play half naked ...

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Is It Hip to be Sefardi?

Rabbi Avraham Yosef, Chief Rabbi of Holon and the son of Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, recently declared that all newly religious Jews should follow the Sefardi tradition, regardless of their heritage.I’ve heard this one before. Eating kitniyot, legumes on Passover and jamming to music that doesn’t have the oy oy oy refrain at first sounds enticing. But that’s ...

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