Andy Warhol made Josh Kornbluth back into a Jew. True, Kornbluth’s parents are Jewish. His mother even speaks Yiddish. But they were also communists and atheists. Growing up in New York City’s Washington Heights, Kornbluth never went to synagogue and never had a bar mitzvah. Frankly, he didn’t think all that much about it.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:34PM on May 6, 2011