Posted on 07/21/2011 4:16:23 PM PDT by dynachrome
Gwyneth Paltrow has seen the light -- at least as far as her kids Apple, 7, and Moses, 5, are concerned.
The "Country Strong" star, 38, recently dished to a crowd at a London charity event that she and her husband, Coldplay rocker Chris Martin, are planning on raising their children Jewish, according to the Daily Mail.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
or not being Jewish herself
Well, at least she isn’t raising them to be Muslim.
That woman gets stupider by the day.
According to the Wiki...
Paltrow was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Blythe Danner, an actress, and Bruce Paltrow, a film and television director and producer. Paltrow’s father was of Ashkenazi Russian Jewish descent; her mother is a Quaker of Pennsylvania Dutch and more distant white Barbadian ancestry. Paltrow’s paternal great-great-grandfather, whose surname was “Paltrowicz”, was a rabbi in Nowogród, Poland. Paltrow has a younger brother, Jake Paltrow, and is a half-cousin of actress Katherine Moennig, and a second cousin of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (AZ-08).
Even thought her Jewishness comes from her father’s side, technically making her not Jewish, she still feels the pull to teach her the ways of Torah.
fine and dandy , but she’ll need a halachic conversion
Paltrow Gets Serious about Jewish Roots
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/dailydish/detail?entry_id=2398
Gwyneth Paltrow has started taking her Jewish roots seriously after missing out on two years of fasting during the religion’s high holy days.
The actress was pregnant with baby Apple in 2003 and breastfeeding her daughter in 2004, so she made sure she honored Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in style in 2005.
And Paltrow plans to pay tribute to her ancestors every year from now on.
She says, “I am the result of generations and generations of rabbis back in Minsk. They call it a rabbinical dynasty.”
This is a switch on Munchausen's disease
Very true. She does need to convert and if she is serious about it I’m sure she’ll have a long line of Orthodox rabbis because according to this story...
“While her mother was a Quaker, the star’s father, the film director Bruce Paltrow, was a prominent Jewish American. He in turn was a direct descendant of David HaLevi Segal, the 17th century patriarch from Krakow, part of the mighty Paltrowich dynasty which gave the world a further 33 rabbis.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/second-child-for-chris-and-gwyneth-is-the-baby-moses-473689.html
Do they actually think that the kids will become religious while their parents are telling then that they have no religious beliefs.
That’s not even really possible.
She could always raise them Jewish even though they are not and then they can choose to convert later.
I work with a young guy who told me that he is Jewish and Christian. His single mom is Jewish. His absentee father was Catholic at some point. He says that he was raised in both religions. I can’t make this stuff up.
Aghhhhhh! Good grief.
That'll be next week's blonde moment.
Why? Loads of Jews disbelieve in God, yet still go through the ritual. Kinda like the UUA. Or Notre Dame. (OK, that last one was being bad.)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.