I really do mourn his passing and how little appreciated his character was in the larger scope of Jewish characters and identity in American living rooms via TV. “Welcome Back Kotter” falls ...

METUCHEN, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) --New Jersey-born Robert Hegyes, the actor best known for playing Jewish Puerto Rican student Juan Epstein on the 1970s TV show "Welcome Back Kotter'' has died.

Kennedy Medical Center in Edison, New Jersey. On "Welcome Back Kotter," Hegyes played "Juan Luis Pedro Felipo de Huevos Epstein," a Jewish Puerto Rican student in a remedial class of kids known ...

Who could forget Juan Epstein? Juan Luis Pedro Phillipo de Huevos Epstein, to be exact – the fast-talking Jewish-Puerto Rican character on “Welcome Back, Kotter.” The 1970s sitcom made a ...

Actor Ron Palillo, who played the obviously Jewish character Arnold Horshack in the 1970s sitcom “Welcome Back Kotter,” died on Tuesday in Florida. He is the second “Sweathog” to pass away ...

You may not personally remember high school the way it was presented in the ABC sitcom Welcome Back Kotter, but from 1976 to 1979 the comic interactions between teacher Gabe Kotter (played by Gabe ...

Marcia Strassman, who played Julie Kotter on Welcome Back, Kotter, diedFriday at her home in Los Angeles after battling breast cancer, according toThe Hollywood Reporter. Ron Palillo ...

METUCHEN, N.J. (AP) — Robert Hegyes, the actor best known for playing Jewish Puerto Rican student Juan Epstein on the 1970s TV show "Welcome Back Kotter" has died. He was 60. The Flynn & Son ...