Tag: Kirk Douglas
Two Gentiles to Host ‘Jewish Nobel Prize’ Ceremony in Jerusalem
In 2014, they gave the $1 million prize to Mike Bloomberg, who used it to buy a Democratic Congressman and had enough left over for a dozen Zabar's bagels.
Kirk Douglas Dead at 103
Douglas pointed out that his films The Juggler (1953), Cast a Giant Shadow (1966), and Remembrance of Love (1982), were about "a Jew who doesn't think of himself as one, and eventually finds his Jewishness."
Kirk Douglas Is 103 – All Hail Spartacus
Douglas celebrated a second Bar-Mitzvah ceremony in 1999, at age 83.
Happy 100th Birthday, Mr. Issur Danielovitch, We Loved You in ‘Cast a Giant Shadow’
All his children were born to non-Jewish mothers, but Douglas insists they were "aware culturally" of his "deep convictions," and he never tried to influence their own religious decisions.