- Isla Fisher
Isla Lang Fisher is an Australian actress and author. Fisher was born in Muscat, Oman to Scottish Presbyterian parents, and now resides in Los Angeles with her fiance, English comedian Sacha .....
- Onkelos
Onkelos is the name of a famous convert to Judaism in Talmudic times (c.35-120 CE). He is considered to be the author of the famous Targum Onkelos (c.110 CE).
- Sammy Davis Jr.
Samuel George Davis, Jr., better known as Sammy Davis, Jr. (December 8, 1925 - May 16, 1990) was an American entertainer. He was a dancer, singer, multi-instrumentalist (playing vibraphone, trumpet, and drums), impressionist, comedian, and actor. He was a member of the 1960s Rat Pack, which was led by his old friend Frank Sinatra, and included such fellow performers as Dean Martin and Peter Lawford.
- Abayudaya
related = "Tradition" :<br/>Jews<br/> African Jews<br/> Abayudaya<br/>"Ethnobiology" :<br/> Baganda<br/> AbayudayaThe Abayudaya ("Abayudaya" is Luganda for "People of Judah", analogous to Children of Israel) are a Baganda community in eastern Uganda near the town of Mbale who practice Judaism. Although they are not genetically or historically related to other ethnic Jews, …
- Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926 - August 5, 1962), was a Golden Globe Award-winning American actress, singer, model and pop icon. She was known for her comedic skills and screen presence, going on to become one of the most popular movie stars of the 1950s and early 1960s. At the later stages of her career, she worked towards serious roles with a measure of success.
- Julius Lester
Julius Lester (born January 27 1939), also known as "Julius Bernard Lester" or by his Hebrew name "Yaakov Daniel", is an award winning American author of books for children and adults, and was an occasionally controversial professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Lester is Black and Jewish. He has recorded two albums of folk music.
- Laura Schlessinger
Laura Catherine Schlessinger (born January 16, 1947) is an American cultural and conservative commentator, most known as host of the popular "Dr. Laura" radio advice call-in show. The show is nationally syndicated and runs three hours a day on weekdays. Schlessinger is an outspoken critic of practices that she feels have become too prevalent in contemporary American culture.
- Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor DBE (born February 27 1932) is an iconic two-time Academy Award-winning British-American actress. Her eyes are sometimes said to be violet color, and at least one source refers to this suggested anomaly as her "trademark" violet eyes. It is further suggested, though photos do not support the claim, that her eyes are framed by a "double row" of eyelashes.
- Mary Doria Russell
Mary Doria Russell (born 1950) is an American author. She was born in the suburbs of Chicago. Her parents were both in the military; her father was a Marine Corps drill sergeant, and her mother was a Navy nurse.
- Luke Ford
Luke Ford (born May 28, 1966, in Kurri Kurri, New South Wales, Australia) is a writer, blogger, and pornography gossip columnist known for his salacious disclosures and traditionalist Jewish religious views.
- Kate Capshaw
Kate Capshaw (born November 3, 1953) is an American actress. She is known for her role in the film "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom", and as the wife of director Steven Spielberg.
- Mare Winningham
Mary Megan Winningham (b. May 16 1959) is an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated American actress.
- Cameron Kerry
Cameron Forbes Kerry (born September 6, 1950) is the younger brother and political confidant of John F. Kerry. The fourth child of U.S. diplomat Richard Kerry and Boston Brahmin Rosemary Winthrop Forbes, Cameron Kerry graduated from Harvard University in 1972, and Boston College Law School in 1978. On September 18, 1972, the day before the primary election in which John Kerry was seeking his district's nomination in his race for the U.S. House of Representatives, …
- Aaron Freeman
Aaron Freeman is an American journalist and stand-up comedian based in Chicago. Freeman's greatest claim to fame may have been "Council Wars," a satire on the Chicago City Council when Harold Washington was mayor. Freeman also has performed with The Second City and is a commentator for National Public Radio's "All Things Considered." The "Chicago Tribune" once described Freeman as "The funniest man in Chicago." Aaron Freeman is a stand up comedian, author, …
- Tom Arnold
Thomas Arnold (born March 6, 1959) is an American actor and comedian.
- Nell Carter
Nell Carter (September 13, 1948 - January 23, 2003) was a Tony Award-winning American singer and film, stage, and television actress.
- Dhu Nuwas
Yūsuf Dhū Nuwas was the last king of the Himyarite kingdom of Yemen. Some sources state that he was the successor of Rabia ibn Mudhar, a member of the same dynasty; the archeologist Alessandro de Maigret believes he was a usurper. According to a number of medieval historians, who depend on the account of John of Ephesus, Dhū Nuwas, who was a convert to Judaism, …
- Anne Meara
Anne Meara (born September 20, 1929) is an American comedian and actress. She and Jerry Stiller are the parents of actor/comedian Ben and actress Amy Stiller.
- Helena Of Adiabene
Helena was queen of Adiabene and wife of Monobaz I. With her husband she was the mother of Izates II. She died about 56 CE. Her name and the fact that she was her husband's sister indicate a Hellenistic origin. Helena became a convert to Judaism about the year 30 CE. She was noted for her generosity; during a famine at Jerusalem she sent to Alexandria for corn and to Cyprus for dried figs for distribution among the sufferers from the famine. In the Talmud, however (B.
- Abraham ben Abraham
The history of Abraham ben Abraham, also known as Count Valentine (Valentin, Walentyn) Potocki (Pototzki or Pototski) is a controversial subject. According to Jewish traditions he is regarded as someone known even to the revered Jewish Talmudic sage, the Vilna Gaon (Rabbi Elijah (Eliyahu) Ben Solomon Kremer (1720-1797)).
- Reuben Greenberg
Reuben Greenberg, born in 1943, was the first Black police chief of Charleston, South Carolina, and known for being an innovative criminologist. He was police chief there from 1982 until his retirement in 2005
- Lord George Gordon
Lord George Gordon (26 December, 1751 - 12 November, 1793), third and youngest son of Cosmo George Gordon, 3rd Duke of Gordon, was an eccentric politician in the United Kingdom.
- Johann Peter Spaeth
Johann Peter Spaeth, Moses Germanus or Moses Ashkenazi (1st half<small> of the </small>17 c., Vienna - April 27, 1701, Amsterdam) was a German convert to Judaism.
- Bishop Bodo
Bodo (born c. 814) was the palace deacon to Louis the Pious, Emperor and King of the Franks from 814 to 840. In early 838, Bodo intended to make a pilgrimage to Rome but instead converted to Judaism, allegedly selling his fellow pilgrims into slavery in Muslim Spain. His conversion was regarded as a rejection of the Carolingian culture and the Christian faith. Bodo left the Frankish Kingdom for Muslim Spain in 839.
- May Britt
May Britt had a brief career as movie actress in the 1950s, in Italy first and later in the United States. She retired from the screen after she married Sammy Davis, Jr. in 1960. Maybritt Wilkens, as she was known originally, was discovered by Italian film-makers Carlo Ponti and Mario Soldati in 1951. She was an assistant to a Stockholm photographer. The two Italians were in Sweden to make a casting for a young blonde for the title role in "Jolanda, …
- Andre Tippett
Andre Bernard Tippett (born December 27, 1959, in Birmingham, Alabama), is a former American football linebacker who played for the New England Patriots of the NFL. He went to the University of Iowa, where he was an All-American.
- Jim Croce
James Joseph Croce, popularly known as Jim Croce (pronounced CRO-chee), was an American singer-songwriter.
- Elizabeth Banks
Elizabeth Banks (born Elizabeth Maresal Mitchell on February 10, 1974) is an American actress.
- Martha Nussbaum
Martha Nussbaum (born Martha Craven on May 6, 1947) is an American philosopher, with a particular interest in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, political philosophy and ethics. She was born in New York, the daughter of George Craven, a Philadelphia lawyer, and Betty Warren, an interior designer and homemaker. She studied theatre and classics at New York University, getting a Bachelor of Arts in 1969, and gradually moved to philosophy while at Harvard, …
- Natan Gamedze
Natan Gamedze was born an African prince of the royal Gamedze clan of the Kingdom of Swaziland in 1963. After his conversion to Judaism as a "ger tzedek" he became an Orthodox rabbi with Haredi affiliations, lecturing to Jewish audiences all over the world, fascinated by his personal story as to how he became an Orthodox Haredi Black Jewish rabbi.
- Sarah Brown
Sarah Joy Brown (born February 18, 1975) is an American actress, best known for playing the role of Carly Corinthos on the American daytime drama "General Hospital" from 1996-2001, for which she won three Daytime Emmy Awards.
- Uriel da Costa
Uriel da Costa (ca. 1585 - April 1640) or Uriel Acosta (from the Latin form of his Portuguese surname, "Costa", or "da Costa") was a philosopher and skeptic from Portugal.
- Eddie Butler
Eddie Butler is an Israeli singer. He was born in Dimona in 1972 and is one of 11 brothers and sisters. His parents came to Israel from Chicago after long wanderings. They belong to the Black Hebrew Israelite community. Eddie started performing at the age of 8. In the 90's he sang with wedding bands, and in 1992 worked as a backing singer for Zehava Ben at the Kdam-Eurovision.
- Obadiah
Obadiah is supposed to have received the gift of prophecy for having hidden the hundred and twenty eight prophets from the persecution of Jezebel. He hid the prophets in two caves, so that if those in one cave should be discovered those in the other might yet escape. (1 Kings 18:3, 4) Obadiah was very rich, but all his wealth was expended in feeding the poor prophets, until, in order to be able to continue to support them, …
- Chris van Allsburg
Chris Van Allsburg is the winner of two Caldecott Medals, for Jumanji and The Polar Express, as well as the recipient of a Caldecott Honor Book for The Garden of Abdul Gasazi. The author and illustrator of numerous picture books for children, he has also been awarded the Regina Medal for lifetime achievement in children's literature. In 1982, Jumanji won the National Book Award and in 1996, it was made into a popular feature film.
- Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid (b. Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson, 25 May 1949 in St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda) is an Antiguan-American novelist.
- Carolyn Jones
Carolyn Jones was an American actress, she is best remembered for playing the role of Morticia Addams in the classic TV Series "The Addams Family". Carolyn Sue Jones was born in Amarillo, Texas, she was named after actress Carole Lombard, and after moving to California, joined the Pasadena Playhouse in 1947, learning her craft and acting under the stage name Carolyn Jones. She secured a contract with Paramount Studios and made her first film in 1952.
- Carolivia Herron
Carolivia Herron (born July 22, 1947) is an American writer of children's and adult literature, and a scholar of African-American Judaica.
- Mary Hart
Mary Hart (born November 8, 1950) is an American television personality and a long-time host of the syndicated gossip and entertainment round-up program "Entertainment Tonight". She has been an anchor, or "hostess", of that program since 1982.
- Andre Williams
Andre Williams (born Zeffrey Williams in Bessemer, Alabama, on November 1, 1936) is an American R&B and rock and roll musician. Some sources believe that Williams is the long-lost brother of Screamin' Jay Hawkins, a blues musician whose song "I Put A Spell On You" landed on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll charts. He lived in a housing project with his mother until she died when he was only six years of age.