Actress Ginnifer Goodwin re-discovers her faith: makes speech at synagogue
JewishWorldReview.com | GINNIFER GOODWIN, 35, has compiled quite a list of
credits in the last decade: she has been the co-star of two hit TV series ("Big
Love" and the still-airing "Once Upon a Time") and she has co-starred in several
hit films, including "Walk the Line" and "He's Just Not that Into You". Next
November, she will co-star as Jackie Kennedy in a National Geographic original
film about the last years of JFK and Jackie.
Born and raised in Memphis, TN, Goodwin was active in
BBYO and took her bat mitzvah seriously enough that she delayed it until her
15th birthday, when she felt she had really studied enough for the ceremony.
On May 17thth, she stood
before the congregation of her hometown synagogue, with her family in the
audience, and sadly noted that she had long fallen away from Judaism. She said,
"For 10 years, there was nothing. No ritual. No tradition. No community. I was
this new alone thing, a nomad in the world. I was homeless." However, as the
Memphis Commercial Appeal reports, "In recent months, Goodwin has been
reclaiming old patches of ritual, tradition and community, and receiving new
ones. She wants to live in a Jewish home with a mezuzah in every doorway. She
wants to raise her 'completely hypothetical future children' to be Jewish. She
hosted a Hanukkah party. She's made brisket and matzo ball soup. She realized
that a lot of her friends are Jewish. 'We've been shul shopping' [in Los
Angeles]..'I am a Jew,' she said, beaming on the bimah. 'It took me 10 years to
come back around to that self-definition. I was a Jew by birth, and now I'm a
Jew by choice.'"
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