Steve Jobs
February 24, 1955
Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder , is not Jewish. He doesn't practice Judaism. He doesn't self-identify as Jewish. His parents are not Jewish. End of story.
Or is he?
Paul and Clara Jobs are not Steve's biological parents; his birth parents are Abdulfattah John Jandali (obviously not a Jew) and Joanne Carole Schieble, who just happens to be...
No, not Jewish either. German/Swiss Catholic. Jandali, a Syrian Muslim, and Schieble gave up Steve for adoption when he was born out of wedlock, but later married — in a church, and became the parents of Mona Jindali, later known as novelist Mona Simpson (after who, interestingly, Homer Simpson's mother is named)... Where were we?
Yes, Steve Jobs. is Not Jewish.
Jobs traveled to India to visit the Neem Karoli Baba at his Kainchi Ashram with a Reed College friend (and, later, the first Apple employee), Daniel Kottke, in search of spiritual enlightenment. He came back a Buddhist with his head shaved and wearing traditional Indian clothing. During this time, Jobs experimented with psychedelics, calling his LSD experiences " one of the two or three most important things he had done in life"
he's a BUDDHIST !
February 24, 1955
Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder , is not Jewish. He doesn't practice Judaism. He doesn't self-identify as Jewish. His parents are not Jewish. End of story.
Or is he?
Paul and Clara Jobs are not Steve's biological parents; his birth parents are Abdulfattah John Jandali (obviously not a Jew) and Joanne Carole Schieble, who just happens to be...
No, not Jewish either. German/Swiss Catholic. Jandali, a Syrian Muslim, and Schieble gave up Steve for adoption when he was born out of wedlock, but later married — in a church, and became the parents of Mona Jindali, later known as novelist Mona Simpson (after who, interestingly, Homer Simpson's mother is named)... Where were we?
Yes, Steve Jobs. is Not Jewish.
Jobs traveled to India to visit the Neem Karoli Baba at his Kainchi Ashram with a Reed College friend (and, later, the first Apple employee), Daniel Kottke, in search of spiritual enlightenment. He came back a Buddhist with his head shaved and wearing traditional Indian clothing. During this time, Jobs experimented with psychedelics, calling his LSD experiences " one of the two or three most important things he had done in life"
he's a BUDDHIST !
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