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.
Her real name is caren ?
Suddenly this creeps career makes sense.
And I’m the queen of England.
5.56mm
She defended Michael Vick.
In all fairness, saying your religion is whatever you identify as at the moment makes a lot more sense than saying your gender is whatever you’re feeling at the moment. But yeah, I smell desperate backtracking on her Holocaust comments.
Religion?
Jews consider themselves far more than that. Sons of Abraham. A race. Certainly an ethnic group.
She said she was of Jewish blood or heritage. It’s like saying you’re Native American. Prove it or you’ve culturally appropriated for the purpose of career advancement.
What strikes me as odd is the fact that she hasnt been called out by anyone in the TV/movie industry.
Somewhere along the line, way back in the early days of her fame, I remember seeing her as a guest on some show where she was explaining her stage name. She said something along the lines of, “Whoopi is a fart. Im a comedian and thats funny. Goldberg is because it sounds Jewish and I knew that when somebody was looking at a list of names I was more likely to get a call because they wouldnt know I was black.”
If she told that story once then she must have told it more times meaning there are hundreds of people in the industry that know this and are keeping quiet.
Does God ever get a word in edgewise back?
She talks to God. Perhaps she should start listening to Him!
Jews only tolerate fake Jews when it suits them which is not a lot
My ex wife tried that ...
She was brought into the industry by a Jewish mentor, Mike Nichols. He saw her one-woman show in a small venue and brought her to Broadway. So she was in the club that way and got a pass.
She’s spewed anti-white anti-Republican hate for decades and been well paid for it.
Now she’ll find our absent her handlers she’s just a fat old black woman they’ll cast aside and move on to someone else not so “ uppity”. Blacks find out how liberals think about them when they say they’ll think for themselves or vote Republican. Useful idiots. When they wise up they ain’t useful any more.
Thank you to all that replied. Much appreciated. Glad to know FR is still a great place to get answers.
I think the rest of the quote was “That was white people killing white people”, which appears to make her STATEMENT about race (as in, “who cares? It was white people killing white people.”)
Nothing Jewish whatsoever about this Caryn. All of her ancestors are black, and from a religious standpoint her father was a Baptist minister and she herself attended Catholic school.
It was her mother who said that the last name “Johnson” was “not Jewish enough to be a star”. Wow.
Her mother’s maiden name is Harris, too. Any relation to the “vice-president”?
Yeah she’s Jewish like I’m a fat black woman.
No! You gave yourself a Jewish name so that you could advance yourself in the media world. You’re a fake.
Apparently, she is not hearing back, or she is simply disregarding Him.
LIES!
Well, maybe you talk to God, but I guarantee you that He doesn’t hear you.
You are EVIL personified.
When Jesus returns, so many of you will be “Left Behind” and wonder why.
Plenty of Jews in Ethiopa. I’ve heard her claim her heritage as an Ethiopian Jew.
If she could get any privilege from this so called "white privilege" she'd claim to be as white as Caesars ghost.
Judaism is not a race. It is a religion. And it is a nation of people. Not a race.
Having said that it is Hitler who turned it into race.
This is far too misunderstood people calling Jewish people a race. If that were true, which again it is not, there would not be black, Asian, Arab Jews and there most certainly are those.
Anyone can convert to Judaism, a religion. You cannot convert to a race.
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