Ronen Rubinstein

Rubinstein in 2016, photo by DFree/Bigstock.com

Place of Birth: Rehovot, Israel

Date of Birth: November 8, 1993

Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish

Ronen Rubinstein is an Israeli-American actor, environmental activist, and musician. He has appeared in the films It Felt Like Love, Jamie Marks Is Dead, Condemned, Some Kind of Hate, Dude, No Escape, and Smiley Face Killers, and on the shows Orange Is the New Black, Dead of Summer, 9-1-1: Lone Star, and American Horror Stories. He is the lead singer of rock band Nights in Stereo.

Ronen is of Russian Jewish descent. He was born in Rehovot, Israel, to parents from the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. His father is a dentist. His family moved to the U.S. when he was five. He was then raised on Staten Island, New York City.

He is married to Canadian actress Jessica Parker Kennedy.

On their Jewish wedding ceremony, Jessica has stated:

I was raised with religious beliefs and Ronen, who was born in Israel, wasn’t but his Jewish DNA is much higher than mine so culturally it was super important to us. Our rabbi was also my rabbi when I was a teenager. I always said: ‘One day when I get married, I hope Rabbi Howard will be my rabbi.’ He lives in America now so I called him and asked him.

Source: https://jewishjournal.com