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Sunday, October 13, 2024
Former Beatle Paul McCartney attends Yom Kippur services in Chile alongside wife
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Former Beatle Paul McCartney attended Yom Kippur synagogue services in Chile alongside his wife Nancy Shevell, photos and video on social media show.
The music legend is seen wearing a kippah at the house of worship in Santiago. He is in South America as part of his “Got Back” tour.
You say goodbye, and I say hello (to the Jewish new year).
Spotted: Sir @PaulMcCartney at Yom Kippur Services in Chile.
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— Israel ישראל (@Israel) October 13, 2024
According to the Jewish Chronicle, McCartney and Shevall have previously attended services at St John’s Wood Liberal Synagogue in London, close to the famed Abbey Road Studios.
Music critic Seth Rogovoy has suggested McCartney has displayed a half-century “love affair with all things Jewish — including collaborators, business associates, girlfriends and wives.”
His first marriage was to Linda Eastman, the granddaughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants to the United States. The couple had four children and were together until her death from breast cancer in 1998.
In 2011, four years after their romance first became public, he married Jewish businesswoman Shevell.
The Times of Israel Community.