Years later, the sign became known to millions around the world as the salute in the “Star Trek” television and motion picture series in which Nimoy starred as Spock ... hand sign forms the ...

Leonard Nimoy poses in Hollywood May 14, 2013. He credits his Jewish heritage for the hand gesture that his character Mr. Spock made famous on "Star Trek." REUTERS/Fred Prouser Leonard Nimoy ...

The Vulcan Salute, made famous by Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock on the original ... he witnessed a Jewish ritual called the "kohane blessing," which uses a hand sign meant to resemble the Hebrew ...

Spock may have been half-human and half-Vulcan ... he peeked out and saw some men performing a prayer that included a hand gesture that is familiar to geeks everywhere as the Vulcan Salute.

you made this sign with your hand. [Makes the Jewish Shin sign.] This is also Spock's Vulcan greeting? Yes. Did anybody realize its religious significance back in the 1960s? The realization came ...

Nimoy describes the origin of his famous Star Trek hand greeting: The Jewish priestly blessing, or duchening. He’d already revealed this in his 1975 autobiography I Am Not Spock, but the video ...

Nimoy was the son of Orthodox Jewish immigrants from Ukraine, and he said that his identity informed much of his approach to his famous hyperlogical character. 'Spock is an alien, wherever he is.

Just a few days before the CNN report, tech website CNET recommended the same option in a commentary entitled ‘Spock's Vulcan ... blessing from the Jewish faith. The hand gesture is also in ...