Sometimes I'm just soo curious as to whether some Hollywood-ites are among the tribe.
Like Michelle Pfeiffer (I love her and all..) but her son had a bris! and from what I've read she isn't Jewish..(correct me if I'm mistaken, but isn't Pfeiffer a Jewish name??) so funcusing, anyone know..?

could be german. but then, many "jewish" last names could be.

There is an 11 page bio here:

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/entertainment/fil...iffer_biog.html

I'm too lazy/not very interested to read the whole thing but I did read this:

Their heritage makes Michelle a mix of Swedish, German, Dutch, Irish and Swiss ("I'm kind of a mutt", she's said).

Rachel Portman is definitely Jewish. Listen to Adam Sandler 's song about who keeps Chanukah in Hollywood, quite funny.

Natalie Portman lived in jerusalem till the age of 3 and speaks hebrew fluently, She is 100% jewish.

Why did I say Rachel?? I meant Natalie. Thanx for setting the record straight. (I think I was meant to call someone called Rachel and it invaded my thoughts!)

JEWISH ACTORS
Jay Adler
Luther Adler
Stella Adler
Jason Alexander
Woody Allen (Allen Koenigsberg)
Ed Ames (Urick Ames)
Morey Amsterdam
Shiri Appleby
Allen Arbus
Adam Arkin
Alan Arkin
Bea Arthur (Bernice Frankel)
Ed Asner
Lauren Bacall (Bette Perske)
Barbara Bain (Millicent Fogel)
Jon Robin Baitz
Lenny Baker
Bob Balaban
Barbara Barrie
Richard Benjamin
Jack Benny (Jack Kubelsky)
Milton Berle (Mendal Berlinger)
Jeannie Berlin
Hershel Bernardi
Sarah Bernhard
Theodore Bikel
Joey Bishop (Joseph Abraham Gottlieb)
Mel Blanc (Melvin Jerome Blanc)
Yasmine Bleeth
Claire Bloom
Victor Borge (Borge Rosenbaum)
Tom Bosley
David Brenner
Felix Bressart
Fanny Brice (Fanny Borach)
Albert Brooks (Albert Einstein)
Mel Brooks (Melvin Kaminsky)
Lenny Bruce (Leonard Alfred Schneider)
George Burns (George Birnbaum)
Red Buttons (Aaron Chwatt)
James Caan
Sid Caesar
Eddie Cantor (Edward Israel Iskowitz)
Phoebe Cates (Phoebe Katz)
Jeff Chandler (Ira Grossel)
Andrew Dice Clay (Andrew Silverberg)
Lee J. Cobb (Leo Jacobi)
Howard Cosell (Howard Cohen)
Billy Crystal
Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz)
Howard Da Silva (Howard Silverblatt)
Rodney Dangerfield (Jack Cohen)
Neil Diamond
Illeana Douglas
Kirk Douglas (Danielovitch Demsky)
Melvyn Douglas (Melvyn Hesselberg)
Richard Dreyfuss
Bob Dylan (Bob Zimmerman)
Robert Evans (Robert Shapera)
Marty Feldman
Tovah Feldshuh
Norman Fell (Norman Feld)
Harvey Fierstein
Larry Fine (Laurence Feinberg)
Corey Fischer
Eddie Fisher
Al Franken
Leonard Frey
Allen Garfield (Allen Goorwitz)
John Garfield (Julius Garfinkle)
Art Garfunkel
Lorraine Gary (Lorraine Gottfried)
Brad Garrett (Brad Gerstenfeld)
Jack Gilford (Jacob Gellman)
Paul Glaser
Ned Glass
Adam Goldberg
Jeff Goldblum
Barry Gordon
Keith Gordon
Cliff Gorman
Gilbert Gottfried
Elliot Gould
Harold Gould
Lee Grant (Lyova Haskell Rosenthal)
Ellen Greene
Shecky Greene
Andre Gregory
Nick Gregory
Jennifer Grey
Joel Grey
Charles Grodin (Charles Grodinsky)
Ayre Gross
Steve Guttenberg
Buddy Hackett (Leonard Hacker)
Mark Harelik
Aaron Harnik
Lawrence Harvey (Laruschka Mischa Skikne)
Dan Hedaya
Buck Henry (Buck Henry Zuckerman)
Pee Wee Herman (Paul Ruebens)
Stephen Hill (Soloman Krakovsky) - Orthodox!
Marcel Hillaire
Arthur Hiller
Judd Hirsch
Dustin Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Judy Holliday (Judith Tuvim)
Oscar Homolka
Michael Hordern
Adam Horwitz
Curly Howard (Jerome Lester Horwitz)
Moe Howard (Moses Horwitz)
Shrimp Howard (Shemp Horwitz)
Lou Jacobi
Sam Jaffe (Shalom Jaffe)
David Janssen (David Harold Meyer)
George Jessel
Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson
Madeline Kahn
Ida Kaminska
Carol Kane
Omri Katz
Andy Kaufman
Julie Kavner
Lainie Kazan (Lainie Levine)
Danny Kaye (David Kaminsky)
Harvey Keitel
Alan King (Irwin Allen Kniberg)
Robert Klein
Sascha Knopf
Jack Klugman
Bernie Kopell
Harvey Korman
Henry Koster (Hermann Kosterlitz)
Jeffery Kramer
Lisa Kudrow
Juliet Landau
Martin Landau
Michael Landon (Eugene Horowitz)
Louise Lasser
Cloris Leachman
Ernest Lehman
Ron Leibman
Sheldon Leonard
Michael Lerner
Sam Levine
Eugene Levy
Jerry Lewis (Joseph Levitch)
Shari Lewis (Shari Hurwitz)
Hal Linden (Harold Lipshitz)
Mark Linn-Baker
Maureen Lipman
Jonathan Lipnicki
Peter Lorre (Laszlo Lowenstein)
Jon Lovitz
Bill Macy (Wolf Marvin Garber)
Howie Mandel
Marcel Marceau
Janet Margolin
Garry Marshall
Chico Marx (Leonard)
Groucho Marx (Julius)
Gummo Marx (Milton)
Harpo Marx (Adolf)
Zeppo Marx (Herbert)
Walter Matthau (Walter Matasschanskayasky)
Elaine May (Elaine Berlin)
Ferdy Mayne
Debra Messing
Bette Midler
Barry Miller
Rick Moranis
Howard Morris
Shelley Morrison (Rachel Mitrani)
Josh Mostel
Zero Mostel
Paul Muni (Muni Weisenfreund)
Alla Nazimova (Mariam Leventon)
Leonard Nimoy
Alan Oppenheimer
Lilli Palmer (Lillie Marie Peiser)
Mandy Patinkin
Sarah Jessica Parker
Rhea Perlman
Natalie Portman
Gilda Radner
Tony Randall (Leonard Rosenberg)
Carl Reiner
Rob Reiner
Paul Reiser
Don Rickles
Peter Riegert
Ron Rifkin
Joan Rivers (Joan Sandra Molinsky)
Edwar G. Robinson (Emmanuel Goldenberg)
Saul Rubinek
Zelda Rubinstein
Winona Ryder (Winona Laura Horowitz)
Mort Sahl
Gene Saks
Adam Sandler
Gary Schandling
David Schwimmer
George Segal
Jerry Seinfeld
William Shatner
###### Shawn (Richard Schulefand)
Wallace Shawn
Harry Shearer
Anthony Sher
Dinah Shore
Pauly Shore
George Sidney
Silvia Sidney (Sophie Josow)
Simone Signoret
Ron Silver
Jonathan Silverman
Sarah Silverman
Phil Silvers (Philip Silversmith)
Alicia Silverstone
Paul Simon
Rena Sofer
Marla Sokoloff
Daniel Stern
Howard Stern
Ben Stiller
Jerry Stiller
Harold J. Stone
Lee Strassberg
Susan Strassberg
Barbara Streisand
Janet Suzman
Chaim Topol
Michael Tucker
Sophie Tucker (Sophia Abuza)
Anton Walbrook
Eli Wallach
Nancy Walker (Ann Myrtle Swayer)
Sam Wannamaker
Rachel Weisz
Gene Wilder (Jerome Silberman)
Debra Winger
Henry Winkler
Shelley Winters (Shirley Schrift)
Ed Wynn (Isaiah Edwin Leopold)

JEWISH DIRECTORS
Jim Abrahams
Darren Aronofsky
Ralph Bakshi
Burt Balaban
Peter Bogdanovich
Harold Clurman
Joel and Ethan Coen
George Cukor
Robert Epstein
Max Fleischer
Richard Fleischer
Melvin Frank
William Friedkin
Larry Gelbart
Amos Gitai
Menahem Golan
Keith Gordon
Arthur Hiller
Jeremy Paul Kagan
Aviva Kempner
Irwin Kershner
Stanley Kramer

Stanley Kubrick
Fritz Lang
Norman Lear
Mervyn LeRoy
Barry Levinson
Dani Levy
Ernst Lubitsch
Sidney Lumet
David Mamet (Richard Weisz)
Joseph Mankiewicz
Joe May (Joseph Mandel)
Nicholas Meyer
Elijah Moshinsky
Paul Mazursky
Max Ophuls (Maximilian Oppenheimer)
Frank Oz (Frank Ozkerwitz)
Alan J. Pakula
Larry Peerce
Roman Polanski
Sidney Pollack
Abraham Polonsky
Otto Preminger
Max Reinhardt (Maximillian Goldman)
Martin Ritt
Stuart Rosenberg
Herbert Ross
Robert Rossen
Boris Sagal
John Schlesinger
Melville Shavelson
Don Siegel
Joan Macklin Silver
Robert Siodmark
Todd Solondz
Steven Speilberg
Billy Wilder
Herbert Wise
Robert Wise
William Wyler
Robert Zemeckis
Fred Zinneman
David Zucker
Jerry Zucker


Disputable Jewish Talent
Irwin Allen
Allan Arkush
June Allyson
Andrew Bergman
Jack Black
Stockard Channing
Charles Denner
Bob Dishy
Boris Karloff
Ted Kotcheff
Claude Lelouch
Oscar Levant
Richard Lewis
Alfred Newman
Mike Nichols
William Powell
David Raksin
Jerry Schatzberg
Noah Taylor
R.H. Thomson
Josef Von Sternberg (Jonas Stern)
Lea Thompson
Howard Zieff
Terry Zwigoff

HALF JEWISH
Lisa Bonet
Joan Collins
Harry Connick Jr.
Roger Corman
Jamie Lee Curtis
Michael Douglas
Fran Drescher
David Duchovny
Douglas Fairbanks (Douglas Elton Ulman)
Carrie Fisher
Harrison Ford
John Frankenheimer
Paulette Goddard
John Houseman (Jaques Haussmann)
Barbara Hershey
Anthony Newley
Paul Newman
Freddie Prinze
Tanya Roberts
Robbie Robertson
Rob Schneider
Jason Schwartzmann
Erich Von Stroheim (Erich Oswald Stroheim)
Zoe Wanamaker

CONVERTED TO JUDAISM
Kate Capshaw
Nell Carter
Sammy Davis Jr.
Anne Meara
Marilyn Monroe
Elizabeth Taylor

Where did you get that list? I'm impressed!

A Chabad mailing list?

Hillarious!

www.cinerhama.com/jewish/actors.html

I can't take credit.

And nu? What about Jackie Mason (Jacob Moshe Maza)? Chopped liver, he is?

I love when this happens

When it comes to the "half Jewish" people, it would be interesting to note which half is Jewish.
I kinda find it funny that Hans Solo (AKA Harrison Ford) is Jewish but Princess Leia (AKA Carrie Fisher) is not. Although, Ford did find the Mishkan in that Indiana Jones movie, didn't he?

No. He didn't. But he wasn't looking for it either. He was looking for the Ark... and that he found.

Besides he kills lots of Nazis and Arabs in his movies.

Not to forget Kevin Bright and marta Kauffman

OOOOH! Mindy's back! Hooray!

Speaking hebrew is not a rayah that she's 100% Jewish.

MMS - I almost quoted your looooong post to tell you how important it was to quote DJ's.

I am extremely tempted to quote back on yourpost Tachlis, but one is enough..anyway, nice list! (..so I guess Michelle isn't on the list.. )

When was I ever gone?
I only post today in threads that interest me.

His real name was Sam and they called him Shemp on the show because their mother was from the old country and when she tried to say Sam it came out Shemp.

Natalie Portman is her screen name, her real name is secret because her parents want to protect her privacy. She's a Sabra, born in E"Y. It's a pretty well-known factoid about her.

By the way, DJ's list left off Goldie Hawn (and since she's Jewish, her daughter, Kate Hudson).

Ahh... but let this be a lesson, you can't keep secrets from H.com.
See for yourself:
http://www.hashkafah.com/index.php?showtop...ndpost&p=120596

Kate hudson is jewish? Yummmy................And natalie portman.........Ill have what to dream about tonight.

*groan* i knew i shouldn't have started this topic..

Wow. Do you only dream about Jewish movie stars?

We're all vey proud of you that you only dream about jewish women!

Jewish comes first, Chinese last.

My Husband told me that she is Jewish but married to a non-Jew he knows this because we live in the same City as some family members. I also like her I think she's a good actress.

It used to be a secret, but not anymore. At this point everyone knows her real last name.

Torah viewpoint:

The length of that long list posted above should embarass all of us. When Jews go off the derech, they tend to go way off. Hollywood and the music industry are more responsible than any other sector of society for undermining family culture, for promoting promiscuity and spreading sexually transmitted diseases, for glorifying drug use and violence, and for discrediting the traditional religious perspective. And Jews are vastly, vastly overrepresented in the entertainment industry.

Funny very funny....

Just thought y'all should know, that when you see a female in your dreams, it is לילי"ת, not your favorite fantasy.

mosheshmeal
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Those poor girls have so many aveiros on their heads already. I think it would be better if you fantasized about non-Jews.

I like the way you think, Ahavah.

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But we shouldn't be choished beksheirim. When DJ_Tachlis says that he will dream of Natalie Portman tonight, I'm sure what he means is that he is going to dream as follows: After going to a Discovery seminar, Miss Natalie Portman spends a summer at Neve Yerushalayim, where she decides that she's had enough of her prusteh former life as a movie star and starts to be shomeres mitzvos. At which point she starts dating, being set up with only the finest bochurim who intend to stay in learning full time. DJ_Tachlis gets set up with her by his Rosh Yeshiva, not recognizing her real name, Natalie Hershlag, when he accepts the shidduch. When he goes out with her, (they go to an airport lounge) she is dressed very modestly, so he almost doesn't recognize her. Imagine his thrill when he discovers that she is none other than the starlet Natalie Portman! (He's excited because he's heard she is very intelligent and intellectual--she went to Harvard--and he's always wanted to meet her to discuss Torah with her.) They get engaged after only three dates, and get married after an unusually short engagement. They use the vast fortune she made from acting in the Star Wars trilogy to support themselves as a kollel couple in Lakewood, and she sets up multi-million-dollar trusts for her future sons and sons-in-law to stay in learning indefinitely. I'm sure this was exactly what DJ_Tachlis had in mind for his dreams tonight. Halevai we all would aspire to have such holy, holy dreams.

On that note, one day David Duchovny is going to divorce his non-Jewish wife, realize the error in his ways, and will marry me...<sigh>

My mom still has hope that Paul Newman will find the right derech...or Paul McCartney will convert. Whatever comes first.

I'd have more important dreams if dreams were a choice.

Hmmm...ThnX - But why did you have to mention lakewood? it ruind it all!

And the chance of me growing a tree out of my kneecap is far greater then natalie portman studiing in Neve.

I was going to say that! If they have the money - how about Yerushalayim?

You left out the 17 kids.

(you from Palo Alto?)
nuh-uh, really?? Because in all the bios & fan sites I looked at, none mention her Jewisj heritage...though she does play many roles that have to deal with it..and to whomever said that thing about pritzus..Michelle happens to be one of the last actresses that hasn't done nude stuff like all the others eventually do..so she still does have some spark of self-identity (right word??) left in her..

I would say self-respect

That's just a myth.

There's a Zohar that says something to the effect that moshesmeal posted. However, the specific reference is to something other than Lilith, but closely related.

And since when is the Zohar meant to be taken literally?

1. I, too have a dream, that Ross Geller -- oops, Dovid Schimmer -- will become a BT sometime.

The dream continues that Julian Stern (Lisa Kudrow's son) becomes a BT sometime...

Can I dream that Coco Arquette becomes intrigued by her dad's roots and becomes Jewish?

Sheesh stop dreaming mindele.

2. This whole Hollywood talk cracks me up cuz in the book I'm writing I portray a frum girl who ran away from home and became a Hollywood star... Then Hollywood turned its back on her when she fell on hard times and she realized that thirty years of giving, giving, and giving of herself nonstop to the fans led her nowhere.

Do you know enough about that life to make it realistic? I'm only asking because there are too many sappy, too good to be true BT stories out there. They make the goyish world seems so...clean.

So what if Dh dreams about me??



The stuff of dreams DJ?

It's not a sappy BT story. I do portray her slowly slipping up in Yiddishkeit, not out of spite, but out of negligence. And no, I did not write any 'dirty hollywood' stories. Maryanne kept to herself all her life as an actress and rarely got involved romantically with anyone. You will NOT see her becoming a BT in the book... she is just reexamining her past when realizing that her future does not exist.