The Vulcan Salute, made famous by Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock on the original Star Trek ... called the "kohane blessing," which uses a hand sign meant to resemble the Hebrew letter "shin ...

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, the ultra-rational Vulcan ...

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 ...

Will his fans miss the irony? Ozzy's a peace-sign kind of guy. It was his Black Sabbath replacement, the late Ronnie James Dio, who started making the hand-horns on stage circa 1979. With that ...