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Aging Jewishly – What our traditions teach us about growing old Stars of David Interested in Your

From bad to worse – when seniors with hearing loss By Nate Bloom, Contributing Columnist Family’s History?
Editor’s note: Persons in BOLD CAPS are deemed by Nate Bloom to be Jewish
deal with masks 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
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
also identified as Jewish. years of doing his celebrity column, and he has expert friends who can help
when called on. Most family history experts charge $1,000 or more to do a
Political and Virus-Fighting “Tribe” DOLSTEN, 62. He was born, raised full family-tree search. However, Bloom knows that most people want to start
It’s likely that you know a few of the and trained in Sweden. Both Bourla with a limited search of one family line.
following persons are Jewish. But I am and Dolsten first did outstanding work
quite certain that most will be new to in their home countries. This led to job So here’s the deal:
you. For brevity’s sake, I am omitting offers by international drug companies.
all or most of their biographies, which Both eventually accepted posts in the Write Bloom at nteibloom@aol.com and enclose a phone number.
you can easily find online. As I write United States and have made America Nate will then contact you about starting a limited search. If that
this (December 6), the following “tribe their home.
members” have been announced as Over at Moderna, there is DR. goes well, additional and more extensive searches are possible.
nominees for cabinet-level positions TAL ZAKS, 54, who has been its The first search fee is no more than $100. No upfront cost. Also,
in the Biden administration: RON chief medical officer since 2015. He several of this newspaper’s readers have asked Bloom to locate
KLAIN, 59, Chief of Staff; ANTONY is the “point man” on its vaccine de-
BLINKEN, 58, Secretary of State; velopment. Zaks was born, raised and friends and family members from their past, and that’s worked out
ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS, 61, trained in Israel. great for them. So contact him about this as well.
Dept. of Homeland Security Secretary Gadot and Bialik Return
(he is the Cuba-born son of a Sephar- Of course, the current big film release
di father and an Ashkenazi mother); is the Warner Bros. movie Wonder air at 9:00 p.m. on January 7, its regular which aired five new episodes on
AVRIL HAINES, 41, Director of Woman, 1984 starring Israeli actress Thursday time slot. MAYIM BIALIK, ABC in November and will air about
National Intelligence (her late mother GAL GADOT, 35, in the title role. 44 (Big Bang Theory), stars as an un- as many in January and February (first
was Jewish and she identifies as Jew- The surprise was that it was released married and not successful 39-year- one: Monday, January 11 at 10:00
ish); and JANET YELLEN, 74, Sec- (December 25) on HBO Max at the old woman who sinks her life savings p.m.). In the third November episode,
retary of the Treasury. same time it was released to theaters, into a cat café (much to her mother’s there was a brief statement that this
As I write this, the Covid-19 vac- and it will remain streaming on “Max” chagrin). Complications ensue when episode and future ones posited that
cines developed by Pfizer and Mod- for a month. AT&T owns Warner Bros. her old crush, Max (played by actor the pandemic was over – and we were
erna are on the cusp of FDA approval and HBO, and it decided that getting Cheyenne Jackson), takes a job in a introduced to a new hospital resident,
for distribution to the public. They more cable subscribers was more im- piano bar near the café. Jim Parsons, Dr. Asher Wolke, a rabbi’s son who
will almost certainly be the first Covid portant now than anemic theater rev- who played Bialik’s husband on Big grew up in a Hasidic community. How-
vaccines given in the United States. enues. Seventeen more Warner Bros. Bang Theory, is an executive producer ever, he has lost his faith and he’s gay.
The CEO of Pfizer is DR. ALBERT new movies will be released in 2021 in of Call Me Kat. He is gay in real life, NOAH GALVIN, 26, who is gay in
BOURLA, 59, a Sephardi Jew who the same way. as is Jackson. They were asked how real life, plays Wolke. His mother is
was born, raised and trained (as a vet- Call Me Kat, a new comedy series, they “faked” being romantically inter- Jewish and he identifies as a Jew.
erinarian) in Greece. Pfizer’s chief sci- premieres on Fox on Sunday, January ested in Bialik. Parsons gave a great Last September, the documentary
entist is a Swedish Jew, DR. MIKAEL 3 at 8:30 p.m. The second episode will answer: “Everybody loves Mayim. She Jimmy Carter: Rock and Roll Presi-
is easy to love.” Jackson seconded this dent got a brief theater run. It begins
streaming on CNN on Sunday, January
answer.
save the dates! More TV and Film 3. Carter, now 96, likes rock and roll,
save the dates!
A TV premiere is rare during the pan-
which he made clear even before he
demic, and so is a second season.
became president in 1977. He became
friends with many popular musicians,
Well, the second season of the pretty
good musical comedy series Zoey’s
Extraordinary Playlist begins on Tues- including BOB DYLAN, 79. Dylan
rarely gives interviews, but he moving-
day, January 5 at 8:00 p.m. on NBC. ly talks in this film about how he and
12 TH ANNUAL JANE LEVY, 30 (whose father is Carter hit it off during their very first
Jewish), plays Zoey, and SKYLAR meeting in 1974 and have remained
ASTIN, 37, co-stars as Max, Zoey’s good friends (who happen to be Nobel
co-worker (who has feelings for her). Prize winners).
Another returnee is The Good Doctor,
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