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Gwyneth Paltrow to raise Apple and Moses as Jews

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July 21, 2011

Moses is a Jewish name, obviously. Apple … not so much.

Turns out that Gwyneth Paltrow’s father’s family comes from a long line of Ashkenazi rabbis, and now Paltrow has decided she will raise her children Jewish.

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