Odeya Rush
Rush in 2012, image via kathclick/bigstock.com
Birth Name: Odeya Rushinek
Place of Birth: Haifa, Israel
Date of Birth: May 12, 1997
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish
Odeya Rush is an Israeli-born actress and model. She has had leading roles in the films The Odd Life of Timothy Green, We Are What We Are, The Giver, See You in Valhalla, Goosebumps, Almost Friends, The Hunter’s Prayer, The Bachelors, Lady Bird, Dear Dictator, Dumplin’, Spinning Man, Let It Snow, Pink Skies Ahead, Cha Cha Real Smooth, and Umma, and on the Israeli show Baalat HaChalomot.
Born in Haifa, Israel, her father, Shlomo Rushinek, is an Israeli-born Jew, with Polish Jewish ancestry, and her mother, Maia Grinfeld, is a Russian Jewish immigrant. Odeya’s grandmother lived in Ukraine. Her first name means “I will thank God” in Hebrew. Odeya moved to the U.S. at the age of nine, initially living in Alabama, where her father worked as a security consultant. Her family later moved to Midland Park, New Jersey, and then Los Angeles, California.
Odeya’s paternal line can be traced back to her seventh great-grandfather, Samson Rusinek.
Odeya’s paternal grandfather was Mordechai/Mordecai Rusinek (the son of Shlomo/Szlomo Rusinek and Hanna/Chana Sara Schneiderman/Shniedermann). Mordechai was a Polish Jew. Shlomo was born in Pilica, Zawiercie County, Silesian Voivodeship, the son of Rafal Rusinek and Chana Jablonowska/Herbet. Shlomo and his father were killed in the Holocaust, in 1942, in the Treblinka extermination camp. Hanna was born in Zawiercie, Zawiercie County. She was killed in the Holocaust, in 1942.
Odeya’s paternal grandmother is the daughter of Asher Zelig Bendel/Bendall and Chila. Asher was the son of Aron Tzwi Bendel. Chila was the daughter of Tzwi and Gitel.
Source: Genealogy of Odeya Rush (focusing on her father’s side) – https://www.geni.com
http://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/interview-brenton-thwaites-and-odeya-rush-on-the-giver
“I’m referring more to Lenin because my grandmother lived in Ukraine during that time and my mom came to Israel to get away from that”
She sort of resembles Aishwarya Rai.
I would have thought this chick was partially Indian, she doesn’t look fully white.
She doesn’t look Indian at all, and I can tell you’re jealous of White people, that’s why you go around trolling on White celebrities pages saying they aren’t White. Get a life loser.
She is middle eastern not white European
She is a white girl born in the middle east. As both of her parents are of european descent.
“Middle eastern” is not a race. Stop trolling.
She lives in middle east not European. Stop being ignorant. Ashkenazi and Palestine people share genetic together,different with European. Why Nazi killed them???
I thought maybe she had some African in her or native at least, middle eastern at most. Her nose and lips look like an admixture is there to me.
All ethnic Jews, including Ashkenazi (Eastern/Central European) are of primarily (up to 75%) middle eastern ancestry.
Lol No.
Plenty of White people have thick lips and thick noses, it doesn’t mean they’re part African.
Ashkenazi Jews are typically 5% Middle Eastern or less.
Really? Can you provide a source for that?
Well, according to my results on 23andme and all the Jewish users that have shared genetic information with me, none of us, except some of the Sephardi cousins, have anything more than a smidgen of Middle Eastern in autosomal composition results.
@J420: The reason they have “thick lips and thick noses” is because they’re most likely mixed with black.
I have thick lips and a broad nose, and I’m not part Black. I had a DNA test showing no African percentage.
Have you seen pictures of Olga Kurylenko? She has thick lips and is slavic as hell.
part african? What are you smoking lately? lol
Very exotic.
News to me.
7/10, kinda cute.