Whoopi Goldberg Archives - Empoword Journalism https://www.empowordjournalism.com/tag/whoopi-goldberg/ Led by women. Uniting and empowering journalists across the globe. Fri, 25 Feb 2022 09:24:52 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Caryn Johnson’s (Whoopi Goldberg) Comments On The Holocaust Are Symptomatic Of A Bigger Issue https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/caryn-johnsons-whoopi-goldberg-comments-on-the-holocaust-are-symptomatic-of-a-bigger-issue/ https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/caryn-johnsons-whoopi-goldberg-comments-on-the-holocaust-are-symptomatic-of-a-bigger-issue/#respond Thu, 24 Feb 2022 22:47:54 +0000 https://www.empowordjournalism.com/?p=22374 Melanie Goldberg Until fairly recently, I spent most of my life assuming that Whoopi Goldberg was Jewish, for good or bad. Born Caryn Johnson, her mother urged the name change on the premise that Hollywood was ‘dominated’ by Jews, and she would therefore garner more success with a Jewish name.

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