Celebrities: Jewish or Not?
Celebrities you might not have known are Jewish….or maybe you did…
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Alan Alda – Not Jewish
Known for his role playing Captain Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce in the CBS wartime sitcom M*A*S*H, Alan Alda, a six-time Emmy Award and six-time Golden Globe Award winner, is often misidentified as Jewish. Alda was raised Catholic by an Irish-English mother and an Italian father. And although he may not be genetically Jewish, his wife, Arlene, is. Alda’s favorite Jewish holiday to celebrate with his family is Passover. He even occasionally favors Jewish cuisine. “Kasha varnishkes, I’m crazy about. I don’t like chopped liver, I’m sorry to say—I hope that doesn’t get me off the list of supposed Jews,” Alda told Moment in 2017.