Celebrities: Jewish or Not? 

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

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Laura Nyro – Jewish

Laura Nyro was born in the Bronx in New York, and had Polish Jewish and Russian Jewish ancestry. Her paternal grandfather was Italian-American.

Nyro was an American singer and songwriter. She achieved acclaim with her debut album, 1968’s Eli and the Thirteenth Confession, which blended pop, soul and jazz, and her follow-up, New York Tendaberry (1969). She was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2010, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.

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