Am I that far out of the loop?

[StellaBlue]

Paula Abdul just told Larry King she's Jewish.

I had no idea.

Am I the only one? I always asssumed her family were Arab, Muslim, and that she was probably a second-generation American. Since most Arab-Americans you meet are. :shrug:

Anyway, that's cool.

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. I didn't know that either!

But is she Jewish heritage, or Jewish per religion? Or both? :shrug:

on edit:
Found this on Wikipedia:
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Abdul was born in San Fernando, California. Her mother, Lorraine Rykiss, is a Canadian former concert pianist, and was born in Saint Boniface, a French-speaking area of Winnipeg; she once worked as an assistant to film director Billy Wilder. Her father, Harry Abdul, is a Syrian-Brazilian orphan who was born to parents of Sephardic Jewish descent; he was once a livestock trader and now owns a sand and gravel business in California. When Abdul was 7, her parents divorced. She and her sister, Wendy (seven years older), lived with their mother in the San Fernando Valley.

Although actually of Sephardic (through her father) and Ashkenazi (through her mother) Jewish descent, Abdul bears an Arabic surname and is commonly thought by the public to be of African-American or mixed-race descent. In an Ebony Magazine interview she says: "I'm Syrian-Brazilian-Canadian-American. I've had a lot of Black kids come up to me and say, 'You are Black! There's no way, no way ,' and that's all right with me".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Abdul

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. But her status as Overblown No-Talent Shitbag far outweighs her Jewishness