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December 20, 2009 | 4:34 pm

TMZ reports Brittany Murphy has died - was she Jewish?

Posted by Jay Firestone

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TMZ has reported that actress Brittany Murphy has died early today at 32. She was married to British Jewish screenwriter Simon Monjack who co-wrote the story for Factory Girl.

From London Jewish Chronicle:

Brittany has just married British-born writer/director Simon Monjack in a small Jewish ceremony in Los Angeles (so small, in fact, that only Murphy, Monjack and the rabbi were present). According to one website, Monjack is actually ordained as a rabbi. Brittany’s mother, it turns out, is Ashkenazi-Jewish on her own mother’s side, making Brittany halachically kosher.

Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Murphy started her career when she was nine, landing a singing role in a musical version of Les Misérables.  She has starred in films such as Just Married, Clueless (with Jewish Alicia Silverstone), Girl, Interrupted, 8 Mile, Sin City, The Dead Girl, Uptown Girls, Riding in Cars with Boys and Spun. 

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Why should I… or anyone (except a pathetic breed of people so obsessed with their own origin that they become the world class example of racist-pigs) care what her, or her husband’s genetic origins were? Jews dominate in Hollywood only because Americans as a whole lack no other cohesive, self-protective, culture. Psycho-pseudo-Christians have (by way of Jewish lobbyists) been duped into believing that their role as “Christians” by way of a grossly misunderstood concept of “equal rights” must endorse the agendas of Jewish Zionists and Jewish Egotists in order to gain favor with God or… the current economy. It’s kiss Jewish- ass time in Americatraz from Madonna to QT.

Comment by Shamil Shmagil on 12/23/09 at 9:42 am

If Britney was Jewish (because as they say, if the mother is Jewish, the children are too), then why was a priest at her funeral?  How can you be Jewish AND Christian?  It doesn’t work that way.  You gotta be one, or the other.  If she was Jewish, then a rabbi should have been there.  Her husband is Jewish, but he isn’t dead.  She is.  You can’t play halfsies on religion.  You are either a Christian or a Jew.

Comment by Ricky on 12/27/09 at 1:38 am

Actually, Ricky, there was born a priest AND a rabbi at her funeral.

Comment by No, ricky on 1/02/10 at 5:56 pm

that’s what i can’t understand why a priest AND a rabbi were both there.

Comment by Ricky on 1/03/10 at 4:17 am

My husband’s best man is both Jewish and Christian. I know a lot of Jewish Christians…but NOT Christian Jewish people. There is a difference…and yes…she could have had a priest and a rabbi if she was a Jewish Christian.

Comment by Angela on 1/08/10 at 12:41 am

Brittany’s maternal grandmother was Eastern European Orthodox (Christian). Not Jewish.

Comment by brei on 11/14/11 at 3:41 am

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