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Until his early teens, he was unaware that his mother, whose family was from Hungary, was Jewish. [13][14][15][16] Owing to his disagreement with the Catholic Church's doctrine about birth control, Maher's father stopped taking Maher and his sister to Catholic Mass when Maher was thirteen. [17]
Yes, Bill Maher is Jewish, but oddly enough, he didn't know that about himself his whole life. "I wasn't raised Jewish. My mother is Jewish. But I never even knew I was half-Jewish until I was a teenager," he once told CNN.
Despite being Jewish, Maher is an atheist who doesn’t engage with his heritage. “I’ve never been in a temple,” he said.
Although Bill’s early life was influenced by his father’s Catholic faith, they were always surrounded by Jewish people, according to Bill. Most of his friends were Jewish and his parents’ best friends, who were also their next-door neighbors were also Jewish.
His father, William Aloysius Maher Jr., who was of Irish Catholic descent, was a radio announcer and news editor. His mother, Julie (Berman), was a nurse, who was of Jewish descent. Maher was raised in his father's Catholic faith.
Bill Maher, who now has a weekly program on HBO, is not a practicing Jew but his mother was Jewish. HJ: I know you’ve been to Israel and that you’re part Jewish. What’s your view of...
Below is the uncut, uncensored interview in which he talks about America's number one political priority, the negative edification of the Bible and what his (Jewish) mother taught him about...
