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$\"\"$ <\/a>Director and producer Brett Ratner<\/strong>, who has made movies like the Rush Hour<\/em> franchise and X Men: The Last Stand<\/em>, is apparently not satisfied with the level of Jewishness in Hollywood. (No one has ever had that sentiment before, btw.) The Hollywood Reporter, er, reports that Ratner was going to a meeting at the United Talent Agency offices in Los Angeles when he randomly started putting mezzuzahs on the doors of two agents<\/a>, the possibly-Jewish-sounding Blair Kohan<\/strong> and Jeremy Zimmer<\/strong>. Mezzuzahs are small wooden or metal cases that contain parchments with a Jewish prayer on them. They\u2019re usually affixed to door frames so that observant Jews can kiss\/touch them before entering or leaving a room.<\/p>\n

Ratner is Jewish and, as THR points out, a former yeshiva boy. My personal favorite description of his Jewishness, though, comes from his IMDB page: \u201cRatner grew up in Miami Beach, the only child of a famous Jewish socialite mother.\u201d Well, maybe the Mezzuzahbombing is an old Miami tradition I just don\u2019t know about?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"