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Interfaith Celebrities: Dancing with the Stars of David

December 11, 2007

Actress Jane Seymour (C) was one of the stars of Dancing with the Stars. The child of an interfaith family, she is pictured with co-host Samantha Harris (L, also Jewish) and Seymour’s dance partner, Tony Dolovani. ABC/Carol Kaelson

Hebrew Hoofers

Dancing with the Stars, the ABC show in which celebrities dance with professional dancers, is a certified mega-hit, drawing huge ratings. This year’s season just ended and, with the help of a friend, I was able to ferret out some interfaith connections.

The celebrity contestants this year included billionaire Marc Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks pro basketball team, and still-beautiful 56-year-old actress Jane Seymour (“Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman”).

Cuban, despite his odd last name, is Jewish. Seymour, who was born Joyce Frankenberg, is the daughter of an English Jewish doctor and his wife, a non-Jewish Dutch nurse. While not raised in any faith, Seymour has talked about her Jewish side fairly often and gave one of the

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Len Goodman

English ballroom dancer (1944–2023)

Leonard Gordon Goodman (25 April 1944 – 22 April 2023) was an English professional ballroom dancer, dance teacher, and dance competition adjudicator. He appeared as head judge on the UK television programme Strictly Come Dancing – in which various celebrities compete for the glitterball trophy – from its beginning in 2004 until 2016, and on the U.S. television programmeDancing with the Stars from 2005 until 2022. He also ran a ballroom dance school in Dartford, Kent.^[1]

Early life

Goodman was born in Farnborough, Kent (now in London), on 25 April 1944.^[2]^[3] He grew up in Bethnal Green, East London, where his grandfather worked as a costermonger, selling fruit and vegetables. As a child, Goodman was wheeled around in his grandfather's barrow and tasked with making sure the vegetables appeared to be fresh.^[4] He moved to Blackfen when he was six years old and later attended Westwood Secondary Modern School in his teens, where he was a member of the cricket team.^[5]

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Lenn E. Goodman

American philosopher (born 1944)

Lenn Evan Goodman (born 1944) is an American Jewish philosopher. His philosophy, particularly his constructive work, draws from classical and medieval sources as well as religious texts.^[1] Goodman is also an academic, scholar, and a historian with research interest in metaphysics, ethics, and Jewish philosophy. He is serving as a professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University.^[2]

Biography

Goodman was born in Detroit, Michigan. He is the son of Calvin and Florence Goodman. His father was a World War IIveteran while his mother was a poet and professor of English.^[1] His family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts and later to Putney, Vermont before finally settling in Los Angeles, California.^[1]

In 1965, Goodman completed a bachelor's degree in Philosophy and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. He later obtained his doctorate in 1968 as a Marshall Scholar. Goodman started teaching at the University of California Los Angeles, (UCLA) in 1969. He transf