{"id":360,"date":"2015-03-16T16:47:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T16:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.draherin.com\/?p=360"},"modified":"2015-03-19T00:41:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T00:41:53","slug":"anti-semitism-affects-all-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.draherin.com\/2015\/03\/16\/anti-semitism-affects-all-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Semitism Affects All of Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draherin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Michael-Douglas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"361\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.draherin.com\/2015\/03\/16\/anti-semitism-affects-all-of-us\/michael-douglas\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draherin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Michael-Douglas.jpg?fit=1000%2C1500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,1500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Michael-Douglas\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draherin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Michael-Douglas.jpg?fit=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draherin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Michael-Douglas.jpg?fit=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-361 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draherin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Michael-Douglas.jpg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"Michael-Douglas\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draherin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Michael-Douglas.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draherin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Michael-Douglas.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draherin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Michael-Douglas.jpg?resize=900%2C1350&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draherin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Michael-Douglas.jpg?resize=233%2C350&amp;ssl=1 233w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draherin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Michael-Douglas.jpg?resize=67%2C100&amp;ssl=1 67w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draherin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Michael-Douglas.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>My father,<a href=\"http:\/\/projects.latimes.com\/hollywood\/star-walk\/kirk-douglas\/\">\u00a0Kirk Douglas<\/a>, born Issur Danielovitch, is Jewish. My mother, Diana, is not. I had no formal religious upbringing from either of them, and the two kids I have with Catherine Zeta-Jones are like me, growing up with one parent who is Jewish and one who is not.<\/p>\n<p>Several years ago Dylan, through his friends, developed a deep connection to Judaism, and when he started going to Hebrew school and studying for his bar mitzvah, I began to reconnect with the religion of my father.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While some Jews believe that not having a Jewish mother makes me not Jewish, I have learned the hard way that those who hate do not make such fine distinctions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full story\u00a0at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/la-oe-0315-douglas-anti-semitism-20150315-story.html\">The LA Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My father,\u00a0Kirk Douglas, born Issur Danielovitch, is Jewish. My mother, Diana, is not. I had no formal religious upbringing from either of them, and the two kids I have with Catherine Zeta-Jones are like me, growing up with one parent who is Jewish and one who is not. Several years ago Dylan, through his friends, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[63,36,37],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.draherin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Michael-Douglas-SM.jpg?fit=1000%2C988&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5MjSO-5O","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":70,"url":"https:\/\/www.draherin.com\/2015\/03\/12\/messianic-judaism\/","url_meta":{"origin":360,"position":0},"title":"Messianic Judaism","date":"2015-03-12","format":false,"excerpt":"What is it? What is it rooted in? Who started it? All good questions, and I\u2019m sure there are many more, but I\u2019m not going to answer every one because I can\u2019t. 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