News Brief12:59 PM

(IsraelNN.com) Jamie-Lynn Sigler, the actress who played Meadow, the daughter of Mafioso Tony Soprano on the award-winning HBO series "The Sopranos," is currently in Israel on a Birthright tour.  According to Israeli newspaper Yediot Acharonot, the 25 year-old actress is in country to explore her Jewish roots.  She is the daughter of a Jewish father with Greek and Romanian Jewish roots and a Cuban mother who converted to Judaism after meeting her husband.

Sigler expressed that she is impressed with the Jewish state.