Her Grandparents
Natalie Portman’s entire family is Jewish. Her maternal grandparents, Bernice and Arthur Stevens, were from Austria and Russia. Her paternal grandparents, Mania and Zvi Yehuda Hershlag, moved to the USA from Israel.
Jewish-Grandparents
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Hebrew
Natalie learned to speak Hebrew when in school. She attended a Jewish elementary school and at the Solomon Schechter Day School of Nassau County in Jericho, New York.
Hebrew