Boris Kodjoe? Lauren London?: Black People You Didn’t Know Were Jewish
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Meg Butler
Sammy Davis Jr.
Malcolm X found Islam in jail. Sammy Davis Jr. found Judaism in the hospital. In 1954 while recovering from a car accident almost took his life, the famous singer began studying Judaism after being “impressed” by the Jewish Chaplain at the hospital.
After recovering, Sammy says he found a new calling — and a deeper level of minority.
He once told TIME magazine, “Talk about handicap–I’m a one-eyed Negro Jew.”
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