'Harry Potter'-Themed Bar Mitzvahs Deemed Kosher With News That Daniel Radcliffe Is Jewish
Having only recently recovered from the news that Dumbledore is gay, we've now stumbled upon yet another bombshell regarding a prominent wizard's membership in a frequently persecuted, Hollywood-running minority—for Harry Potter, it turns out, is Jewish:
Daniel Radcliffe, who has captivated moviegoers as the bespectacled schoolboy wizard in the Harry Potter films, has donated the first pair of glasses he wore as a child to an exhibition marking the horrors of the Holocaust. [...]
The 18-year-old Radcliffe, whose mother is Jewish, sent the oval, gray metal-framed pair of glasses he wore as a 6-year-old.
Suddenly, the Potter legend takes on an entirely new level of metaphorical significance—a supernatural coming-of-age story about an outsider who longs for the company of his magical Jewish friends at YM-YWHA sleepaway camp while he lives out the rest of the year in misery surrounded by thickheaded Muggoyim.