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Best known for his role as the cultural icon Captain James T. Kirk, William Shatner is not simply an actor, author, director, singer, and comedian. This prolific entertainer is Jewish, and here’s how we know:

-William’s grandparents were Jewish immigrants hailing from countries in Central and Eastern Europe, such as Austria-Hungary, Poland, and the Ukraine.. [x]

-William was raised in Conservative Judaism, and his family held long seders during Passover. [x]

-William grew up attending a Canadian Jewish Federation camp during the summer. He also attended Hebrew school, and had the unfortunate experience of dealing with antisemitic bullies on the way there. [x]

-After the death of his third wife, William began planning to produce a film called “The Shiva Club,” in which a group of people crash a shiva in the hopes of getting in the good graces of a Jewish Hollywood exec. This project appears to have fallen through. [x]

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