Celebrities: Jewish or Not? 

Celebrities you might not have known are Jewish….or maybe you did…

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Jon Ossoff – Jewish

Jon Ossoff’s father is of Russian and Lithuanian Jewish ancestry, whose ancestors fled pogroms in the early twentieth century. He also grew up around survivors of the Holocaust, and had his bar mitzvah.

Ossoff is an American politician and senator currently representing Georgia. A protégé of civil rights icon John Lewis, Ossoff lost his first race in 2017 for a special election to Congress, but won his 2021 runoff Senate race and 2026 Senate race.

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