{"id":83975,"date":"2021-02-22T17:00:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=83975"},"modified":"2021-02-16T12:36:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T10:36:58","slug":"22-00-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=83975","title":{"rendered":"Actress Rashida Jones on Black-Jewish Heritage: \u2018It\u2019s Something I Do Not Take for Granted\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Actress Rashida Jones on Black-Jewish Heritage: \u2018It\u2019s Something I Do Not Take for Granted\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Shiryn Ghermezian<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Rashida Jones at the 2017 Miami International Film Festival presentation on March 7, 2017. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Actress Rashida Jones is thankful for her dual Black and Jewish heritage and feels a responsibility to make her parents proud because of it, she explained on Thursday during her guest appearance on the\u00a0NPR<\/em>\u00a0public radio program \u201cFresh Air.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The former \u201cParks and Recreation\u201d star, 44, is the daughter of renowned black music producer Quincy Jones and Jewish actress Peggy Lipton, who was best known for her roles in\u00a0\u201c<\/em>Twin Peaks\u201d and \u201cThe Mod Squad.\u201d Lipton died in May 2019 from cancer, less than a year after Rashida gave birth to her son with her partner, Jewish musician Ezra Koenig.<\/span><\/p>\n

Quincy grew up poor in Chicago\u2019s South Side neighborhood, while Lipton was born into a Jewish observant middle-class family in Lawrence, New York.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rashida, who currently stars in the Netflix series \u201c#blackAF,\u201d\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0she is \u201cbeyond grateful\u201d when she thinks about where her father came from, the accomplishments he had in life, and her mother\u2019s Ashkenazi Jewish side of the family. She said on \u201cFresh Air\u201d that her perspective on her mother\u2019s Jewish background changed when she did the American genealogy documentary series \u201cWho Do You Think You Are?\u201d and learned more about her maternal ancestry.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI did that show and we went to Latvia, to the village where my mom\u2019s great-grandfather was born and the whole village was devastated during the war and everybody was killed,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I just think about how ridiculous it is that I exist because the lineage on both sides, the probability that I would exist, a Black Jew in 2021 \u2014 and succeed and thrive \u2014 is a miracle. And it\u2019s something I do not take for granted. I think about it constantly, every day. I don\u2019t understand why I was chosen, but I feel like I have to make good on my dad\u2019s survival and my family\u2019s survival.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Rashida was raised by her mother to observe the Jewish high holidays and attended Hebrew school until age 10 but ultimately left \u201cbecause the girls were kind of snotty,\u201d she said in a 2007 interview with\u00a0American Jewish Life Magazine<\/em><\/a>. She noted in the same interview \u201cI really liked the cultural and the familial side of Judaism. It was always the most comfortable place for me, making time for family and community.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She also told the publication she feels \u201cpretty strongly\u201d about her connection to Judaism and that her boyfriends \u201ctend to be Jewish and also be practicing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t see it as a necessity, but there\u2019s something about it that I connect with for whatever reason. I think it probably has a lot to do with my mom, the way I grew up, and the family friends that we had and the paradigm that I saw of family life and what I would want for myself, and that was all kind of interconnected.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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