Re: [Cz-L] Converted_Jews

Hardy, that's an oversimplification.

"Kunis was born in Chernivtsi, in the Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine).[5]
Her mother, Elvira, is a physics teacher who runs a pharmacy, and her
father, Mark Kunis, is a mechanical engineer who works as a cab
driver.[6] Kunis has an elder brother named Michael (born c.
1976).[7][8] She stated in 2011 that her parents had "amazing jobs",
and that the family was "very lucky" and "not poor"; they had decided
to leave the USSR because they saw "no future" there for Kunis and her
brother.[5] In 1991, when she was seven years old, her family moved to
Los Angeles, California with $250. "That was all we were allowed to
take with us. My parents had given up good jobs and degrees, which
were not transferable. We arrived in New York on a Wednesday and by
Friday morning my brother and I were at school in LA."[5]

Kunis comes from a Jewish family and has cited antisemitism in the
former Soviet Union as one of several reasons for her family's move to
the United States.[9][10][11] She has stated that her parents "raised
[her] Jewish as much as they could," although religion was suppressed
in the Soviet Union.[9] On her second day in Los Angeles, Kunis was
enrolled at Rosewood Elementary School, not knowing a word of English.
She later recalled: "I blocked out second grade completely. I have no
recollection of it. I always talk to my mom and my grandma about it.
It was because I cried every day. I didn't understand the culture. I
didn't understand the people. I didn't understand the language. My
first sentence of my essay to get into college was like, 'Imagine
being blind and deaf at age seven.' And that's kind of what it felt
like moving to the States."[12] "At age nine, Kunis was enrolled by
her father in acting classes after school at the Beverly Hills
Studios"

I think there's a lot more to her story....

Shelley

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Hardy Breier <hardy3_at_bezeqint.net> wrote:
> Mila Kunis is from Czernowitz. Big Holywood star.
> She left Cz because of anti semitic remarks at school .
> I am confused - whom should I believe ?
>
> Hardy

>

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