Gary David Goldberg was Jewish. Famous for being an American writer and producer for television and film, Goldberg was best known for his work on Family Ties (1982–89), Spin City (1996–2002), and his semi-autobiographical series Brooklyn Bridge (1991–93).Gary David Goldberg was born on June 25, 1944, in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Anne (née Prossman) and George Goldberg, a postal worker. Goldberg attended and graduated from Lafayette High School in Brooklyn. He studied at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, and San Diego State University,...
Thursday, 27 June 2013
Wednesday, 26 June 2013
Billionaire Marc Rich was Jewish. Known recently as the billionaire who was pardoned by President Bill Clinton over what had once been the biggest tax evasion case in U.S. history, Marc Rich invented oil trading and was praised for busting sanctions with IranRich was born in 1934 to a Jewish family in Antwerp, Belgium to working-class Jewish parents. The family emigrated to the United States in 1941 to escape the Nazis. Marc Rich attended high school at the Rhodes Preparatory School in the Manhattan borough of New York City and NYU but dropped...
Friday, 7 June 2013
Frank Lautenberg was Jewish. The United States Senator from New Jersey, who died on June 3, 2013, was a practicing Jew.Lautenberg was born in Paterson, New Jersey, to Mollie (née Bergen) and Sam Lautenberg, impoverished Jewish immigrants from Poland and Russia, who had arrived in the United States as infan...
Jean Stapleton, who played Edith Bunker on TV's "All in the Family", was not Jewish. Stapleton was active in the Christian Science Church.Jean Stapleton was born in New York City to Joseph E. Murray (a billboard advertising salesman) and Marie Stapleton Murray (an opera singer). She died at 90 on May 31, 2013 of natural caus...
Saturday, 20 April 2013
Allen Neuharth was not Jewish. The founder of the USA Today national newspaper, Neuharth was born in Eureka, South Dakota to Daniel J. and Christina (who married on January 11, 1922).Newharth was an American businessman, author, and columnist. He was the founder of USA Today, The Freedom Forum, and its Newseum.Allen Neuharth died on April 19, 20...
Monday, 8 April 2013
Margaret Thatcher was not Jewish. Thatcher was the longest serving prime minister of the United Kingdom during the 20th century.Margaret Thatcher was born Margaret Roberts in Grantham, Lincolnshire, on 13 October 1925. Her father was Alfred Roberts, originally from Northamptonshire, and her mother was Beatrice Ethel (née Stephenson) from Lincolnshire.Thatcher died of a stroke on April 8, 2013. "It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning," Lord...
Thursday, 4 April 2013
Roger Ebert was not Jewish. The famous film critic was one-half of the movie reviewing team of Siskel and Ebert with the late Gene Siskel, who was Jewish.Roger Joseph Ebert was born in Urbana, Illinois, the son of Annabel (née Stumm) and Walter H. Ebert, an electrician. His paternal grandparents were German immigrants and his maternal ancestry is Dutch, Irish, and German.Ebert died on April 4, 20...
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