This “are celebrities Jewish?” thing has gone too far now, with “Equus” audience members identifying Daniel Radcliffe as a member of the tribe by noting a distinctive alteration to his, er, magic wand. (Daniel’s mom is Jewish and dad is not.)
I could have lived very happily without knowing whether certain actors are circumcised or not. In fact, I would like to spend zero time contemplating anyone’s bris status, let alone that of celebrities, and this is certainly true for 17-year-olds who play wizards in children’s movies. And as for people who go to see plays to ogle an underage wizard’s equipment? Yuck.
At any rate, I guess they’ll have to take the “hog” out of Hogwarts now.
(InterfaithFamily, via Beliefnet)
phoebe
4/16/2007
I was just invited to an academic seminar on the politics of circumcision in the USSR. The possibilities for inquiry are limitless.
Yehoshua Friedman
4/17/2007
A story asking to be written as a Harry Potter spinoff would have his classmate Anthony Goldstein go on Birthright or something like that.
DeisCane
4/17/2007
I think the Bynes news is much more exciting.
Shy Guy
4/18/2007
Could it be that we are living in the times of the great battle of Gog U’Mugle?
Chutzpah
4/20/2007
Do I get an award for unbelievable feats of self-restraint in not commenting on this post? (And believe me…I got comments!)
Esther
4/20/2007
Mad props, Chutzpah… I’m very proud of you.
Chutzpah
4/21/2007
malcolm
5/10/2007
harry p and co been circumcised as a rital for the last term at hogworts why not!
morgan
2/13/2008
I just saw for myself, and he is most DEFINITELY not… um brised?
I have to admit, it was v. awkward seeing Harry Potter naked, but I can assure you the first thing that shocked me about this revelation was his … Jewish authenticity…
frankly I’m always interested in hearing the status of my favorite stars, but I would very much prefer not to see it first hand… thats just weird.
Barry
8/26/2009
Who cares? He is a very fine actor.
bob
9/26/2010
poor harry — guess i always assumed his uhhh.. nightly self-pleasuring was made simple b/c of his European “unaltered” status….