Celebrities: Jewish or Not?

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

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Trevor Noah – Jewish

Trevor Noah is a South African writer, comedian and television host. He hosted the talk show Tonight with Trevor Noah before becoming the Senior International Correspondent at The Daily Show in 2015. The following year, he succeeded Jon Stewart to host the show for seven years. In 2016 he published an autobiography, Born A Crime. He has also hosted the Grammy Awards since 2021, and in 2022 hosted the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

Noah was born in Johannesberg to a Swiss-German father and a Xhosa-Jewish mother, making him a quarter Jewish. He was raised in a Christian household while also engaging in some aspects in Jewish culture, like having a bar mitzvah (that he jokes no one came t0). He came under fire for previous tweets that resurfaced, which some called racist or antisemitic, and raised questions over who has property over which jokes.