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hrmjustin

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Sun Mar 1, 2015, 09:37 AM Mar 2015

Star Trek’s Spock describes his Jewish roots-Leonard Nimoy

Adelle M. Banks

ROCKVILLE, Md. (RNS) The V-shaped hand sign that made actor Leonard Nimoy famous as Mr. Spock may have seemed from a planet far away. But the “Star Trek” star who died Friday said he created it from childhood memories of his Jewish family.

“I reached back to my early years as a child when I was sitting in a synagogue in Boston with my family at the High Holidays,” he said in 2011 during a visit to B’nai Israel Congregation here. Nimoy was 83 and died in his home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles.

http://www.religionnews.com/2011/05/20/star-treks-spock-describes-jewish-roots/

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