Posted on 12/01/2006 9:39:32 AM PST by dead
MICHAEL Richards was mistaken when he told his recently hired publicist, Howard Rubenstein, he was Jewish. Rubenstein, an expert in crisis management, said last week that Richards was Jewish after The Post reported the former "Seinfeld" star had spewed anti-Semitic insults at hecklers earlier this year, long before he screamed racial epithets at black audience members at an L.A. comedy club.
But it turns out neither of Richards' parents is Jewish, and he never converted. But Richards wasn't lying, Rubenstein said: "He thinks he's Jewish. There were two mentors in his life who raised him and had a big influence on his life, and they were Jewish. He said, 'I agree with the religious beliefs of Judaism, and I've adopted Judaism as my religion.' "
Rabbi Marvin Hier, who founded the Simon Wiesenthal Center in L.A., told the AP, "You can't feel Jewish. It's not a matter of feeling." Rubenstein couldn't say what faith Richards was raised in or what his real name was….< snip > He's spending a lot of time with his psychiatrist."
Except the mohel snipped the wrong part on Kramer--his brains.
He certainly showed a lack of "foresight" given his remarks.
Where is the link to the claim that he is Jewish?
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