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Sally Lowenthal (born February 25, 1935), better known as Sally Jessy Raphael, is an American retired broadcaster, radio jockey and television talk show host, who is best known for her program Sally (originally called The Sally Jessy Raphael Show).
Lowenthal was born on February 25, 1935, in Easton, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Easton Area High School in Easton. She lived in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where her father, Jesse Lowenthal, was in the rum exporting business and her mother, Zelda Lowenthal (aka Dede Lowry), ran an art gallery. She has a younger brother, Steven Lowenthal.
During her teenage years in Scarsdale, New York she worked at the local AM radio station, WFAS in White Plains. The station had a program in which Junior High School students had the opportunity to read the news on the air and Raphael was selected to participate. She attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, as well as the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan. She graduated from Columbia University in Manhattan. Raphael studied acting under the tutelage of Sanford Meisner at noted Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in Manhattan.
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