The former White House intern alleged to have had an affair with President Clinton is the daughter of a prominent Los Angeles Jewish physician. Monica Lewinsky’s father, Bernard, and Monica’s mother, Marcia, joined Sinai Temple, an upscale West Los Angeles Conservative synagogue, in the mid-1970s, and Monica later attended its religious school. The Lewinsky family still belongs to the synagogue.
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