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JEWISH INTEREST September 2021 21A

Sneak Peek Between the Pages Stars of David Interested in Your

By Nate Bloom, Contributing Columnist
Preview Event Editor’s note: Persons in BOLD CAPS are deemed by Nate Bloom to be Jewish Family’s History?
for the purpose of the column. Persons identified as Jewish have at least one Jew-
ish parent and were not raised in a faith other than Judaism – and don’t identify
Monday, September 20 ~ 10:30am - noon via Zoom with a faith other than Judaism as an adult. Converts to Judaism, of course, are Nate Bloom (see column at left) has become a family history expert in 10
years of doing his celebrity column, and he has expert friends who can help
also identified as Jewish.
when called on. Most family history experts charge $1,000 or more to do a
Olympics Round-Up
The Tokyo Games featured 22 Jewish was based on. Comedy series: Cobra full family-tree search. However, Bloom knows that most people want to start
Kai, based on Karate Kid films written
with a limited search of one family line.
athletes from the Diaspora as well as by ROBERT MARK KAMEN*, 73;
the 90-member (Jewish) Israeli team. Kai was created for TV by HAYDEN So here’s the deal:
The individual Israeli medal winners SCHLOSSBERG and JON HUR-
are: ARTEM DOLGOPYAT, gold ar- WITZ, both 43; Emily in Paris, cre- Write Bloom at nteibloom@aol.com and enclose a phone number.
tistic gymnastics; LINOY ASHRAM, ated by DARREN STAR, 60; The Nate will then contact you about starting a limited search. If that
gold, rhythmic gymnastics; AVISHAG Kominsky Method, created by CHUCK
SEMBERG, bronze, taekwondo. The LORRE, 68. goes well, additional and more extensive searches are possible.
Israeli mixed judo team (men/women) Drama series: Boys, developed The first search fee is no more than $100. No upfront cost. Also,
won a bronze team medal. It’s consid- for TV by ERIC KRIPKE, 46; Brid- several of this newspaper’s readers have asked Bloom to locate
ered one medal, but all 11 team mem- gerton, based on novels by JULIA friends and family members from their past, and that’s worked out
bers get a medal to take home. QUINN*, 51; The Crown, created by
The Diaspora medal winners are: PETER MORGAN, 58; The Mandal- great for them. So contact him about this as well.
Australia: JESSICA FOX, gold, wom- orian, created by JON FAVREAU,
en’s kayak slalom, and bronze, wom- 54; Pose, co-created by BRAD FAL- created for Netflix. Most of the ac- producer and record company owner
en’s canoe slalom; Ukraine: ELINA CHUK, 50; This Is Us, created by tors are Israeli and Jewish. The nine- who made Franklin a star. Wexler died
SVITOLINA, bronze, women’s tennis DAN FOGELMAN, 45. episode series follows a tour guide in his Sarasota home.
singles; United States: SUE BIRD, Limited series/TV movie: The (LIOR RAZ, 49) investigating the Aretha’s huge hit, “You Make Me
gold, women’s basketball; ALIX Queen’s Gambit, created by A. SCOTT mysterious death of his wife. (Began Feel Like a Natural Woman,” is sung
KLINEMAN, gold, women’s beach FRANK, 60; WandaVision, created by streaming on August 6.) in the film. The music is by CAR-
volleyball; NICK ITKIN, bronze, JAC SCHAEFFER, 42. Respect, a biopic about the late OLE KING, now 79. The lyrics were
team foil (fencing). TV Shows and Films Aretha Franklin, opened in theaters by King’s first husband, GERRY
Check out my article on the Ordinary Joe stars JAMES WOLK, on August 13. MARC MARON, 57, GOFFIN (1939-2014). It has always
Olympics posted on the Detroit Jew- 36, as a guy who faces a pivotal deci- has a large supporting role as JERRY intrigued me that a man wrote the
ish News website: thejewishnews. sion after college. The decision could WEXLER (1917-2008), a legendary “Natural Woman” lyrics.
com/2021/08/03/meet-the-olympic- lead to three different lifepaths and the
members-of-the-tribe/ series follows all three. DAVID WAR-
You’ll find a much bigger list of SHOWSKY, 60, has a supporting role.
Diaspora athletes than in any other (Premieres Monday, September 20 at
source. I give credit to Jewish Sports 10:00 p.m. on NBC.)
Review, a print publication that shared Y: The Last Man posits a dystopian
its research with me. future in which all mammals with a Y Guiding investors and their
The Emmys chromosome are rendered sterile – ex-
The Emmy Awards will be presented cept one man. The main cast includes
on Sunday, September 19 (CBS, 8:00 OLIVIA THIRLBY, 34. (Premieres families for over 20 years.
p.m.). Here is the list of Jewish nomi- Monday, September 13 on FX.)
nees in just the acting and best series The Big Leap is a musical-comedy Ally Zemelman, CRPC ®
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Supporting actress, comedy series: 27, who created the stage role, plays
HANNAH EINBINDER, 26, Hacks; Hansen in the film. Also, the music and
Lead actor, limited series/TV movie: lyrics, as on-stage, are by the team of
DAVEED DIGGS, 39, Hamilton. BENJ PASEK, 36, and Justin Paul.
All but two of the following peo- The screenplay is by STEVEN LEV-
ple are “best series” Emmy nominees. ENSON, 37, who created the “book”
I also note (see asterisk) two people (story) for the stage musical.
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