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The Paltrow Children Will Be Raised Jewish

But will daddy Chris Martin convert?

by
Marc Tracy
July 21, 2011
Gwyneth Paltrow last month.(Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)
Gwyneth Paltrow last month.(Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

Apple, 7, and Moses, 5, will be raised as Jews, Paltrow (whose father was Jewish) announced. It would be pretty silly not to raise a kid named Moses as Jewish, of course. But Apple? That would make her Hebrew name Tapuach, and the nicknaming possibilities there are, I think you’ll agree, endless.

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.