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Gene Simmons (The Demon)

Simmons was born as Chaim Witz on August 25, 1949 at Rambam Hospital in Haifa, Israel, to Jewish immigrants from Hungary. 

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg (The Notorious RBG)

The Bader family belonged to East Midwood Jewish Center, a Conservative synagogue, where Ruth learned tenets of the Jewish faith and gained familiarity with the Hebrew language. Starting as a camper from the age of four, Ruth attended Camp Che-Na-Wah, a Jewish summer program at Lake Balfour near Minerva, New York, where she was later a camp counselor until the age of eighteen.

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Grace Adler

Grace Elizabeth Adler (formerly Adler-Markus) is a fictional character in the American sitcom Will & Grace, portrayed by Debra Messing. A Jewish interior designer living in New York City, she lives with her gay best friend, Will Truman

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Dr. Harleen "Harley Quinn" Quinzel

Harley’s Jewish heritage is finally canonized in 2010’s Gotham City Sirens #7, when Harley goes home to Brooklyn to visit her mixed Jewish and Catholic family for the holidays.

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Randy "Macho Man" Savage

Randy Poffo was born in Columbus, Ohio, the eldest son of Judy (Sverdlin) and Angelo Poffo. His father was Italian American and his mother was Jewish.

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Randy "Macho Man" Savage

Randy Poffo was born in Columbus, Ohio, the eldest son of Judy (Sverdlin) and Angelo Poffo. His father was Italian American and his mother was Jewish.

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Josh Rosen

Rosen had a bar mitzvah and identifies as Jewish.

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Gert Yorkes

Gertrude, often called "Gert" for short, is often regarded as the most "book-smart" of the Runaways yet also the most sarcastic and cynical. She has socialist leanings and is ethnically Jewish but spiritually agnostic. Gert is known for her sarcastic one-liners, glasses, and purple-dyed hair.

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Batwoman "Kate Kane"

In every iteration and alternate universe since her reintroduction in 2006, Kane has been a proud lesbian Jew. In one, she lived during World War II and spent her time taking down Nazis with other amazing Justice League women. In others, she has celebrated Hanukkah with her girlfriend and Shabbat with a young Jewish girl in 1940s Berlin.

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Jason Blum

Jason Ferus Blum born February 20, 1969) is an American film and television producer. He is the founder and CEO of the eponymous Blumhouse Productions. Blum was born the son of Shirley (née Neilsen) and Irving Blum (Jewish)

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Stan Lee

Stanley Martin Lieber was born on December 28, 1922, in Manhattan, New York City, in the apartment of his Romanian-born Jewish immigrant parents, Celia (née Solomon) and Jack Lieber, at the corner of West 98th Street and West End Avenue in Manhattan.

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The Thing "Ben Grimm"

Born on Yancy Street in New York City's Lower East Side, to a Jewish family, Benjamin Jacob "Ben" Grimm had an early life of poverty and hardship, shaping him into a tough, streetwise scrapper.

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Kitty Pryde a.k.a. Shadowcat

Katherine Anne "Kitty" Pryde was born to Carmen and Theresa Pryde. She is an Ashkenazi Jewish-American and her paternal grandfather, Samuel Prydeman, was held in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.

She wears a Jewish star ne klace in multiple comics and has spoken about her Judaism.

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Marilyn Monroe

On June 29, Monroe and Arthur Miller were married at the Westchester County Court in White Plains, New York; two days later they had a Jewish ceremony With the marriage, Monroe converted to Judaism, which she continued to practice even after her divorce from Miller.

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Joey Ramone

Jeffrey Ross Hyman (Joey Ramone) was born on May 19, 1951, in Queens, New York City, New York to a Jewish family. His parents were Charlotte (née Mandell) and Noel Hyman.

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Scarlet Witch "Wanda Maximoff"

Her first appearance was in The X-Men #4 (March 1964) . In most depictions, she is portrayed as a mutant, and, for much of the character's history, was considered the daughter of the mutant Magneto and the half-sister of Polaris.

Note: This funkopop depicts Scarlet Witch in the comics. MCU Scarlet Witch was stripped of her Jewish and Romani history and is not included in this collection

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Magneto 'Max Eisenhardt'

Magneto was born "'Max Eisenhardt'" sometime in the late 1920s to a middle-class German Jewish family. Max's father, Jakob Eisenhardt, was a decorated World War I veteran. He is also a Holocaust survivor.