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.
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Pennsylvania Dutch are German-Swiss Mennonites and Amish. They have little overlap with Quakers.
White Barbados ancestry almost surely means Jewish, via Holland and Portugal.
Makes sense. Whenever some American celeb discusses his disdain for religion, he/she is invariably referring to Christianity.
obviously, but her fathers side doesn’t matter. Only the mother’s does. You’re not Jewish are you?
I believe she means Jewish liberal...
It came to mind that maybe she is doing the Kabbalah thing like Madonna did/does.
Thanks for that piece of info.
No, but I do know that the mothers’ side is what matters under Jewish law.
Dabbling makes it so much easier, ya know. Don't have to apply any real energy, make personal sacrifices, follow rules, all that "religiony" stuff. /s
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Actually, Hinduism wouldn't have bit of trouble with this. You can be a Hindu and some other faith with no problem.
Catholicism, OTOH, by definition requires exclusivity.
With her I don’t think it is a fad.
Then she needs to take steps hereself to convert. How can one have Jews without a Jewish mother?
Actually, Hindus do have a problem with this. It means yoiu HAVE to proclaims yourself Hindu if you want also to be Christian. That means accept the caste system and not try to persuade caste members to get too “uppity.”
Nothing wrong with raising her kids Jewish. But she needs to set an example herself of being a God-Fearing Jewish mother.
Kids learn by example.
She obviously considers herself a Jewish mother even though the Orthodox rabbis disagree. She’s been observing Jewish customs to a greater or lesser degree since at least 2006.
At some point she is going to want to do something that is going to require her to convert like becoming a citizen or Israel or wanting to be recognized as a kosher-certified Jew in the Orthodox community. She may then decide to convert.
Do we know whether or not her mother converted? (And, if so, prior to her birth?)
Hinduism is more appropriately defined as a complex of religions and cultures than as “a religion.”
As such, to a very considerable extent each Hindu defines his own religion. While most believe in caste, there is of course the slight problem that someone who converts wouldn’t have a caste, since that is inherited.
Not all Hindus believe in caste or in the need to keep lower caste members down.
Becoming a Jew seems to be somewhat more getting citizenship in an Indian tribe than in becoming the member of a religious body. It would seem that being the grandaughter of a Jewish woman should have some weight.
Whether an individual Hindu believes in caste seems beside the point. The caste system exists ragardless. Though growing up in the South, I didn’t “believe” in segregation system. It didn’t. however, make the separate water fountains go away that I disapproved of them.
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