I am – Kate Hudson Jewish celeb of the Week

• 20 years ago

Kate Hudson is our pick for the Jewish celebrity of the week. If you didn’t know Kate is Goldie Hawn’s daughter and her father is singer Bill Hudson (not Jewish) of “The Hudson Brothers”. Goldie’s late mother was Jewish and Goldie was raised Jewish. Therefore, while Kate is Jewish by traditional Jewish religious law (ie., thorough the female line)–she is “one quarter” Jewish by ethnicity. Goldie’s late mother was very close to Kate and Goldie once referred to her mother, herself, and Kate as “three generations of strong Jewish women.” Apparently, Kate identifies as Jewish. She appeared on Regis Philbin’s show in 2002 and referred to herself during the appearance as a “bad Jewish girl”. Why? Because the appearance was on the Yom Kippur holiday when “good Jewish girls and boys” are not supposed to work.

“I’m superstitious… but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.”

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“I have a big, flamboyant, open personality, which I think is why people may be saying these nice things about me. But these high expectations sometimes make me feel like I’m under a microscope–especially with my mother being who she is.”

“Sometimes I’ll be walking down the street [in France] and I’ll hear some American and I’ll just go, ‘Of course they hate us, of course they can’t stand us. We’re the most annoying, boisterous creatures in the world.’ I mean we come in and we eat mounds of food, and we’re like, ‘Where’s the ketchup for our French fries.’ I’m like, ‘Shut up.”

Last February, 2003 when Kate had just finished up filming “Le Divorce” in France.

She said she was shocked when she was in France. “I’m Jewish and this was the first time I experienced real anti-Semitism. Paris was scary…there were synagogues bombed and there was anti-Semitic graffiti all over the place. I was very angry. This is something I am passionate about.”