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.
I believe she is. A dumbass.
She FEELS JEWISH...she’s NOT JEWISH!
DNA Links Prove Jews Are a ‘Race,’ Says Genetics Expert
https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/dna-links-prove-jews-are-a-race-says-genetics-expert-1.5220113
When Jews at Southern Poverty or the ADL talk about “white supremacy” they aren’t referring to Jews.
Hitler was part of the Darwinian social evolutionary movement believing that some “superior races” should continue and the inferior die off.
It’s confusing. Half the time leftists are saying ‘race is a social construct’ and the other half the time they’re saying ‘white people are evil.’
Whoopi made the mistake of biting the hand that’s been feeding her for decades. This story surfacing of her lying about her background might be the final nail in the coffin of her career.
You can convert to Judaism, yes. But does that make you a “Jew”?
Technically, if you’re not a son of Abraham - can trace your lineage physically back to him... then you’re not a Jew by blood.
Now, all Christians are sons of Abraham by faith.
Is that the same thing?
If it doesn’t matter, why was it necessary for Jesus to be a ‘son of David’?
Blacks doing JEWS dirty work !!! LOL!
The Pope IDENTIFIES as CATHOLIC!!
B!ACK STICK TOGETHER!
She said it and so did her MOTHER !
Has she converted to Judaism?
Now actor Yaphett Koto was a African Jew, look it up. Whoopi is nothing.
Sorry, but if you CONVERT, you are still looked at as SUSPECT!! I have 2 relatives that turned Jewish...not as accepted as REAL JEWS
That is not correct, the Jews do not consider Jesus as the son of God, they view him as a great Prophet. And Jesus was Jewish.
Your analogy is faulty on many levels. You do not have to be born again to have a relationship with God. The concept of Born again is relatively recent in the context of religion that goes back thousands of years.
HALF Jewish...
You are inaccurate. When a person converts to Judaism we are Jewish. In fact the religioun states to never speak of that again. We are Jews.
You need a better understanding this. Don’t take my word. Take the word of the most wise religious scholar on earth, Dennis Prager, who wrote a definitive book on this. Called “ Why the Jews?: The Reason for Anti-Semitism by Prager, Dennis, Telushkin.”
Jews are not a race. I explained succinctly why that’s true.
No full Jewish.
Please read my #54.
I didn’tpost the truth of Jews not being a race to debate your views on not accepting Jews to conversion. I know quite a bit about that myself having done so.
Please don’t insult a beautiful religion and maybe try listening to Dennis Prager on his radio show and read his books. You will be very enlightened if you’re open to it.
Im aware of Ethiopian Jews but that is not what she said in the the interview Im talking about. She wasnt Ethiopian at the time, she said she picked the name because she thought it would make her more money. She was clearly alluding to the idea that “Hollywood is controlled by Jews.”
It also confirms that “Jewish” is not a race despite how hysterical some people pretend to become when it is stated openly.
And no, I dont accept any of the “Im 1/64th Jewish” or whatever a persons BS story is when they tell it. “You”
(the person claiming to be part Jewish) didnt have 1/64th of a mitzvah, you dont wear a 1/64th size yamulke, you dont go to temple 1/64th of the time, and you dont only eat 63/64ths of a slice of ham.
Just as you (atc23) arent 1/2 Catholic or 1/16th Presbyterian.
Judaism is a religion. It doesnt transmogrify ones genes by converting. Even if she did later find evidence that she was Ethiopian then that has nothing to do with anything as not all Ethiopians are Jews.
Years ago I knew an Italian Puerto Rican guy from NY. His mother worked for a Jewish doctor and she was complaining in a conversation one day about how terrible the schools were where he children attended. The story went that one day he offered that he could get them in to some Jewish school because as the doctor said “they could pass for Jews.”
He didnt wind up going but lets pretend that he did. Were his genes in some way changed by going to that school? If his kids then grew up believing that they were Jewish did that mean that somewhere along the line God swooped in and changed their genes?
No temple claims her and she recently said something like “I just feel like I am Jewish.” She wasnt Ethiopian at the beginning of her career when I saw the interview and she only “feels” Jewish now.
It was a cynical premeditated lie then and it is now. Shes not a Jew of any type.
To a leftist, the “truth” seems to be like a movie character “back story” Not only is the character fictious but naturally the “back story is as well.
Again, this will all blow over in a day or two because she enjoys black privilege. + female + celebrity -
She’s got plenty of boxes checked
GOD: What's that? Whoopie Goldberg?
WHOOPIE GOLDBERG: Yes. I am Jewish, and I tell people I talk to God.
GOD: Well okay. Hang on, let me pull up your file. Umm..it says here you believe in abortion up to the moment the child is actually born?
WHOOPIE GOLDBERG: Well, yes...I think a woman's right to...
GOD: That's murder. Against the Commandments.
WHOOPIE GOLDBERG: I don't think it is murder, because the...
GOD: Nope. It's murder.
WHOOPIE GOLDBERG: But...
GOD: We're done talking here. St. Peter will talk to you in a short time about this.
WHOOPIE GOLDBERG: But...but...
GOD: And don't bother talking to me until you change your mind. If you do, we can discuss forgiveness anytime and see where that goes. But until then, I don't have enough time to hear you out.
WHOOPIE GOLDBERG: But...
GOD: And by the way, until you change, don't tell people you talk to me. Until you change, you'll just be talking at me, and I don't want to give people the wrong idea.
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