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Pharaoh’s Daughter unplugged Stars of David Interested in Your

By Nate Bloom, Contributing Columnist
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
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
New Television Series ly guy whose father is Jewish, plays full family-tree search. However, Bloom knows that most people want to start
Coyote, a new series, started stream- a main cast character. The series was with a limited search of one family line.
ing on CBS All-Access on Thursday, created by ALEX KURTZMAN, 47,
January 7. Michael Chiklis stars as and JENNY LUMET, 53. Lumet is So here’s the deal:
Ben Clemens, a veteran Border Pat- the daughter of the late, great director
rol agent who is forced to work for SIDNEY LUMET (Dog Day After- Write Bloom at nteibloom@aol.com and enclose a phone number.
Mexican smugglers of undocumented noon and 12 Angry Men). Lena Horne
immigrants. MARK FEUERSTEIN, was her maternal grandmother. Her Nate will then contact you about starting a limited search. If that
49, (Royal Pains) has an important re- husband, ALEX WEINSTEIN, is an goes well, additional and more extensive searches are possible.
curring role as Frank Kerr, a successful artist. The first search fee is no more than $100. No upfront cost. Also,
psychologist who is married to Clem- Obit Catch-Up
ens’ ex-wife. Over on ABC, the come- Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann several of this newspaper’s readers have asked Bloom to locate
dy/drama Call Your Mother premiered – the “Girl Next Door” – on the ev- friends and family members from their past, and that’s worked out
on Wednesday, January 13. KYRA er-popular Gilligan’s Island, died on great for them. So contact him about this as well.
SEDGWICK, 55, (The Closer) stars December 30, age 82, from Covid-19
as an “empty-nester” mom whose adult complications. In interviews, she
children live far away. She decides to seemed to be just the same sweet per- January 3, there were many premature sonal source who knew Barry in high
move near them and re-insert herself in son she was on the series, which was reports that she had died, age 65. Rob- school told me he was Jewish. Barry
their lives – and the kids are surprised created by the late SHERWOOD erts wasn’t a major star, but she had and Tanya wed in 1974. She nursed
that they do need her. Sedgwick’s SCHWARTZ. Her death leaves TINA some good roles: she was an “angel” him for five years until he died in 2006.
FELDMAN mother was Jewish and she identifies LOUISE, 86, (“Ginger”) as the only in the last season (1981) of Charlie’s For decades, her bios repeated the
as Jewish. surviving cast member. Yes, Louise, Angels; she co-starred in the cult fan- same thing – that she was born in 1955,
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CBS on Sunday, February 7. Queen her only husband was Jewish and he 72; she was the “Bond Girl” in “A View some record checking. Turns out that
JOSEPH M. FELDMAN, CFP ® Latifah stars as Robyn McCall, an was the father of her only child. Wells to a Kill” (1985); and she was a cast Tanya, born Victoria Blum, was born
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tragically dies in a one-on-one fight But, in her 1991 obituary, it said she like Tanya, was from the Bronx. A per- in correcting online bio details.
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