Black and Jewish: Stars With Hebrew Heritage

Drake, Meagan Good and other celebs who are "chosen."

Sammy Davis, Jr. - The Rat Packer, raised Catholic and Protestant, converted to Judaism after a near-fatal car accident in the mid-1950s. Davis, Jr. says reading a book about the history of the Jews, detailing the culture's historic will to live, spoke to him at a time when he saw his own mortality.(Photo: GAB Archive/Redferns)
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Ben Harper - This Grammy-winning folk/blues artist is Jewish from his mother's Russian-Lithuanian side, and was raised by her after his parents' divorce at age five.(Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Firefly Music Festival)

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