Katy Perry's Father Clears Up Confusion Over What Jews Smell Like

Well, cross kabbalat Shabbat services off the list of things Katy Perry probably did last Friday night. The singer's father, Keith Hudson--an Ohio preacher--recently gave a sermon at Church on the Rise in which he told congregants, "You know how to make the Jew jealous? Have some money, honey...You go to L.A. and they own all the Rolex and diamond places. Walk down a part of L.A. where we live and it is so rich it smells. You ever smell rich? They are all Jews, hallelujah. Amen." Perry, famous for frothy songs like "I Kissed a Girl" and "Teenage Dream," hasn't yet said anything about her father's remarks, but Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League has: "Keith Hudson's unabashedly anti-Semitic remarks to hundreds of worshippers in Ohio about Jews and money are a reminder that...

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Katy Perry’s Father Clears Up Confusion Over What Jews Smell Like

Well, cross kabbalat Shabbat services off the list of things Katy Perry probably did last Friday night. The singer's father, Keith Hudson--an Ohio preacher--recently gave a sermon at Church on the Rise in which he told congregants, "You know how to make the Jew jealous? Have some money, honey...You go to L.A. and they own all the Rolex and diamond places. Walk down a part of L.A. where we live and it is so rich it smells. You ever smell rich? They are all Jews, hallelujah. Amen." Perry, famous for frothy songs like "I Kissed a Girl" and "Teenage Dream," hasn't yet said anything about her father's remarks, but Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League has: "Keith Hudson's unabashedly anti-Semitic remarks to hundreds of worshippers in Ohio about Jews and money are a reminder that...

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