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Message: <br /><br /> If you are having trouble reading this email, you may view this article online at: http://www.jweekly.com/40167/full/40167/jon-gosselin-the-man-we-love-to-hate-now-in-half-jewish-size/ <br /><br /> <b>Jon Gosselin: The man we love to hate, now in half-Jewish size</b> <br /> Monday, October 12, 2009 | by rachel leibold <br /><br /><p> <div class="capDivLeftBrd" style="width: 250px;"><img align="left" alt="jon_and_hailey_347" height="347" src="http://www.jweekly.com/images/uploads/blog_art/1009/jon_and_hailey_347.jpg" title="jon_and_hailey_347" width="250" /> <div class="caption">Jon + Hailey, 2gether 4ever<br /></div> </div> </p> <p>The word just came in from <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/12/jon-gosselin-im-half-jewi_n_317730.html" target="_blank">Huffington Post</a> (by way of <a href="http://www.parentdish.com/2009/10/09/jon-gosselin-loves-his-kids-his-girlfriend-and-the-jews/" target="_blank">ParentDish</a>) that erstwhile "Jon and Kate Plus 8" whipping boy Jon Gosselin is half-Jewish. Apparently what it takes to be half-Jewish these days is to have a Jewish girlfriend and Jewish divorce attorney.</p> <p>Anyway, here's Jon Gosselin on being a little bit o'Heeb:</p> <p><em>This is the first year I will celebrate Chanukah. Hailey [Glassman, Jon's 22-year-old girlfriend] is Jewish. Everyone in my life is Jewish now, my attorney. I love it. I'm now half Jewish and half Korean. The family values are great. On Christmas, I'll see my kids during the day for a couple of hours.</em></p> <p>Now that's family values!</p> <p><em>I just went through Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur and learned about the new year and every Friday is the Shabbat dinner. I love challah bread. I'm learning about Jewish food, going to Zabar's. I love that place. I'm learning about kosher and when not to order a bacon, egg and cheese and make an ass of myself. Hailey makes fun of me. My mom came to the city on Yom Kippur and asked where all the traffic was. I got from the West Side to Midtown in five minutes. She wants to come to the city every year on Yom Kippur.</em></p> <p>Forget circumcision, I've always felt that the mark of a true non-Jew was using the term "challah bread."</p> <p><em>I talked to Rabbi Shmuley a couple of times. He has nine kids. I was really nervous dating a Jewish girl. She's like the best girl ever. All my friends are like 'I'm so jealous' and I'm like, 'Stay away, she's mine.'</em></p> <p>Thou shalt share thy hot girlfriend with thine friends, Jon - it's the eighth commandment.  Read the Bible sometime.</p> <p>(Sorry, I just looked at the photo of her again - that should read "hot" in quotes.)</p> <p><em>I have a therapist. But hanging around Jewish people you don't need to talk to anyone else. My parents and grandparents are divorced and I want to break the pattern. I have Hailey and Mark Heller, my attorney, my therapist. They're all Jewish. I watch them and I confide in them, especially Hailey. She is my best friend. She'll tell me if I do something wrong. God has put these people in my life for a reason. My inner circle is Jewish. I only care what they think. I never talked about anything until therapy. Kate never wanted to go to marriage counseling. The thing in therapy is about teaching me how to talk to my kids.</em></p> <p>Let me make sure I have this right - Jon <em>is</em> getting a divorce, right? And he's "breaking the pattern" of divorce in his family? Just checking. Well, I suppose in a world where Jon Gosselin is half-Jewish things don't have to make sense.</p> <p>I think we all just got a little stupider, don't you agree?</p> <p>[via <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/12/jon-gosselin-im-half-jewi_n_317730.html" target="_blank">Huffington Post</a>]</p> <p>[photo courtesy of <a href="http://blogs.babble.com/famecrawler/" target="_blank">Famecrawler</a>]</p>

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