Paula Abdul was born in San Fernando, California.
Both of her parents are Jewish. Her father is a middle-eastern Jew who emigrated to Brazil and then the United States and her mother, a Canadian woman whose Jewish ancestry is from Eastern Europe. Abdul explained it herself, saying:
My father is a Syrian Jew whose family immigrated to Brazil. My mother is Canadian with Jewish roots. My dream is to come to Israel for a real holiday.[1]
She got her wish and was invited to a vacation in Israel by Israeli Tourist Minister Isaac Herzog over the Hanukah Holiday Season in 2006.[2]
Abdul was described by her own rabbi, Chaim Mentz, as a "good Jewish girl" and it is reported that she practices by regularly attending services and lighting Sabbath candles.[3] She has also spoken about bonding with some of the Jewish American Idol contestants over religion.[4]
Politics cuts into my drinking time!
Abdul is not well-known for her discourse on politics or society. She claims that she's not stupid, though, saying:
I'm intelligent…I have a brain.[5]
She doesn't show it much.
Abdul is heavily involved in various charities–signaling a desire to create a better world and society–but most of them, if not all, involve non-political topics.[6]
She did signal extreme satisfaction when Barack Obama was elected as president in 2008, saying:
I was crying [when I heard Obama had won]! You feel such a sense of pride that you can't even articulate how good you feel. It's unbelievable! I have chills. I was just so excited. I was texting everyone: 'Peace has begun.' And then I was texting everyone, 'I don't have to move to Vancouver now!'[7]
I guess we can call her a Democrat, but, unfortunately, that's the only evidence.
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