RIP J. D. Salinger

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http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/35127071/ns/today-today_books/?GT1=43001

Salinger is gone, but Holden Caulfield will live forever.

[Robert Goren]

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[chickenhead]

Many thanks JD, I hope you found your peace.

[bigmack]

His Ma was Irish and his Pop was Jewish. Was he Jewish?


Traditional Judaism maintains that a person is a Jew if his mother is a Jew, regardless of who his father is. The liberal movements, on the other hand, consider a person to be Jewish if either of his parents was Jewish and the child was raised Jewish. Thus, if the child of a Jewish father and a Christian mother is raised Jewish, the child is a Jew according to the Reform movement, but not according to the Orthodox movement. On the other hand, if the child of a Christian father and a Jewish mother is not raised Jewish, the child is a Jew according to the Orthodox movement, but not according to the Reform movement! The matter becomes even more complicated, because the status of that children's children also comes into question.

http://www.jewfaq.org/whoisjew.htm

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I'm not sure what he would have been considered from the standpoint of religious descent, but, according to this article, from the perspective of personal belief or practice, he was very multi-faceted, with Hinduism predominating:

http://www.adherents.com/people/ps/JD_Salinger.html