Farmar plays about 20 minutes a game for the Los Angeles Lakers.
The last Jewish basketball star was Adolph Schayes.
According to Wikipedia: "Farmar was born in Los Angeles, California. His father, former baseball player Damon Farmar (an outfielder who was a second round draft pick in both 1982 and 1983), is African American. He and his mother, Melinda Kolani, and his Israeli stepfather, Yehuda Kolani, are Jewish.[1][2][1] Farmar has a half-sister, Shoshana Kolani. Farmar’s godfather is former major league baseball player Eric Davis.[2] He attended Portola Middle School in Tarzana and Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, before transferring his sophomore year to Taft High School in Woodland Hills, a suburban community of the San Fernando Valley within Los Angeles."
