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{{quote|'''[[Adam Sandler]]:''' "He's a quarter Jewish -- not too shabby!"}}
* [[Alyson Hannigan]]'s parents. Whoever they are.
* Jeff Nimoy (yes, ''[[Leonard Nimoy|that]]'' Nimoy—he's a second cousin once removed) and [[Quinton Flynn]].
* Israel’s former president, Haim Herzog, was an Irish Jew, and even spoke Gaelic.
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** But then, which country hasn't? Even Vatican City has had its share of Jewish popes and cardinals—besides the obvious Peter, many sources recall the scholar-Pope Sylvester II/Gerbert d'Aurillac as being of Jewish descent.
** That was more than likely used as an insult, as the prevailing attitude of the time was that Jews were 'Christ killers' and thus [[Exclusively Evil]], and he was regularly demonized as a sorcerer after his death because of his impressive achievements, magic being another inaccurate trait prescribed to Jews by the superstitious, the uneducated and the stupid (most of Mediaeval society was at least two of these).
* Colin Quinn has recently{{when}} done a one man show on Broadway, directed by Jerry Seinfeld.
* [[Averted Trope|Contrary to popular belief]], Prohibition-era gangsters Dion O'Banion and Earl "Hymie" Weiss were not this trope. Weiss was actually a Catholic.
* Don Adams, star of ''[[Get Smart]]'', was the son of a Hungarian Jewish father and Irish Catholic mother, both of whom were effectively disowned by their families over the marriage. He was raised Catholic.
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