Jewish black kid is new "Lord of the Dance"

Wins All-Ireland Championships three times -- creates a new legend

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Drew Lovejoy and his mother Andee Goldberg

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His mother says “You have two lives — the Irish dance world and the real world where you live every day.” She continues saying in the dance world “you found a place where you’re comfortable and people don’t look at you in a certain way.”

In 2010 he became the first person of color to win the World Championships. A group of male dancers all in their 70s offered him congratulations.

Lovejoy’s mother explained “They said, ‘We never thought it would happen, but we’re thrilled that it did’…They don’t even know he’s Jewish. That hasn’t been broached. I think it would be too overwhelming.”

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