Posted on 02/04/2022 8:53:43 AM PST by TigerClaws
She may be well known as a singing nun in Sister Act, but actress Whoopi Goldberg has claimed she feels just as Jewish as she does black. Speaking this week at a charity event in London, the Oscar-winning actress said: "I just know I am Jewish. I practise nothing. I don't go to temple, but I do remember the holidays. Religion is a lot of work, it's exhausting. So I keep it simple, I have a pretty good relationship with God. We talk.'" She added: "When people heard the name 'Whoopi Goldberg', and then I turned up, I was not what they were expecting.
"People would ask me in a roundabout way, 'So are you?' And I would say 'What?' And they'd say 'What does your name mean?' And I would say 'Do you mean Whoopi?' And they'd say 'No, the other name.' And then they would say 'Come on, are you Jewish?' And I always say 'Would you ask me that if I was white? I bet not.'" The name is wonderful for starting conversations."
She refused to be drawn on the exact origins of the name, but added: "My mother did not name me Whoopi, but Goldberg is my name, it's part of my family, part of my heritage. Just like being black." One story suggests that her mother, Emma Johnson, thought that the family's original surname was "not Jewish enough" for her daughter to become a star. Whoopi's father, Robert, was a clergyman who left the family in New York when the former Caryn Johnson was a baby.
Ms Goldberg, who is currently producing the musical version of Sister Act on Broadway, was in London to work with charity Film Without Borders, run by TV producer Jill Samuels. It supports young filmmakers from countries of conflict, including Israel and the Palestinian territories. She visited Israel "many moons ago" and planted a tree there. "I feel a real connection there, but also with Palestine as well. We are one people, we really are."
Ms Goldberg was interviewed by three young Israeli, Palestinian and Rwandan filmmakers. They included former IDF Navy Seal Omri Bezalel. All the students used the interviews to make short films called "Things I learnt from Whoopi."
After filming, Prince Edward hosted a reception for the charity and Ms Goldberg at Windsor Castle on Monday night.
The finished films will be shown at the BFI UK Film Council tent at the Cannes Film Festival on May 18. Filmmakers trained by Film Without Borders will later return to their countries to teach their new skills to other up-and-coming film directors.
JINO
What did she say the caused her to be suspended for two weeks? I can’t find the quote anywhere.
She may think she is talking to God, but absent from being born again by the Grace of God through the Blood of Jesus Christ, she is fooling herself.
She basically said that the Holocaust was not about ‘race’................
She talks too much as it is.
She said the holocaust was not about race...
LOL beautiful.
Lots of people,beleive there is a God, and think they communicate with that God, but they do not communicate with the God unless they are born again. Christ said as much. Those folks who,don’t know,christ have simply,created a God in their own image, and they refuse to obey the true God of,the Bible, preferring to,worship,the God of their own making because that false God is more amenable to their sin driven desires- their lower selves.
To this whoopi person, everybody and everything is racist with a very odd exception: Hitler and the Nazis. lol
She said Holocaust was one group of whites killing another so it had nothing to do with race.
Now it turns out she’s Rachel Dolezal fake Jewish to advance her career and lied about it.
She’s toast. This is going viral already. What does she say?
Maybe she can Elizabeth Warren it and say it was due to her high cheekbones.
Just when you think something you couldn’t give a crap about has reached the apogee of “couldn’t give a crapitude” (or, crapogee) it goes the other way. This is more buzz than Whoopi has achieved in maybe 23 years.
She needs to drop Goldberg and go back to her original name Caryn Johnson, but change the spelling of her first name to “Karen” to make it a perfect fit for herpersonality.
Whoopi is pointing to the current Hollywood view that came out of the “white fragility” CRT that only blacks are victims. Asians are white. Hispanics alternate white or “person of color” depending on their usefulness.
Whoopi also thinks “white is white” and is basically saying, “I’ll black. I can’t be touched.” She said that twice in the Colbert interview. “I’m black. So I have a different perspective on all this.”
But this new discovery is a smoking gun. She’s off the team.
Tucker will be on it tonight. She will have to explain and apologize.
It’s a big win for us to drive a wedge between Jews and blacks. Leftists fighting each other. Win.
Blacks determined the last election. All those major cities. “2000 mules” look at the trailer. Black street work. Funded by Zuckerberg, Soros….
Blacks need to start voting their own interests. Get off the plantation.
So, she talks to “god”?
My question is: Does the money ever talk BACK to her?
So...she does not practice, but self-identifies as Jewish.
Just another person crying for attention and making a lotta’ bucks along the way pretending to be her public character. Sounds ignorant of world history, and maybe socially delusional under her facade.
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