Nationality?


Does anyone know what nationality Mayim is? I'm guessing Jewish or Greek.

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The closest thing to "jewish nationality" is Israeli. She is american and Jewish and actually got a BA in Jewish studies at UCLA

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I'm guessing Jewish. If I remember anything from Hebrew class 3 semesters ago, her name means water.

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Yep her name means water, just read the bio.

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Her nationality is "American". Jewish is a religion and an ethnicity.

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Greek???!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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She was born in the United States so she is Canadian obviously! DUH!!


Namaste, and good luck.

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Judaism shares some of the characteristics of a nation, an ethnicity, a religion, and a culture, making the definition of who is a Jew vary slightly depending on whether a religious or national approach to identity is used. For discussions of the religious views on who is a Jew and how these views differ from each other, please see Who is a Jew?. Generally, in modern secular usage, Jews include three groups: people who practice Judaism and have a Jewish ethnic background (sometimes including those who do not have strictly matrilineal descent), people without Jewish parents who have converted to Judaism; and those Jews who, while not practicing Judaism as a religion, still identify themselves as Jewish by virtue of their family's Jewish descent and their own cultural and historical identification with the Jewish people.
-Wikipedia

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