Raised by her Christian mother before entering the foster care system, comedian Tiffany Haddish did not know about her Jewish roots until adulthood. She first met her father, an Eritrean Jew, when she was 27 and began reclaiming Judaism shortly afterward. Haddish released a comedy special in 2019 called Black Mitzvah and celebrated by having an actual bat mitzvah ceremony off-screen, which was officiated by comedian Sarah Silverman’s sister, Rabbi Susan Silverman.
