JRochelle . . . you type before you understand quite often.
A lesson in grammer/English . . . items inside of parentheses relate to the aforementioned subject/modifer.
How he handled Macaca and the news that his mother was a closet Jew were gaffes for him. Get it? That's why those two issues are grouped together after the "gaffe-prone" title.
I have NO problem with someone's religion as long as it isn't "un-American" in it's ideology nor immoral in it's viewpoint. Judaism does not fit those descriptors. I lived in Jerusalem for 4 months and have quite a lot of respect for most Jews I know. I even feel quite a kinship, in fact.
Thanks for calling me an "anti-semite" . . . and making yourself look quite foolish.