{"id":12230,"date":"2014-01-30T08:59:41","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T14:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=12230"},"modified":"2014-01-30T08:59:41","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T14:59:41","slug":"husband-of-natalie-portman-says-he-is-converting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/husband-of-natalie-portman-says-he-is-converting\/","title":{"rendered":"Husband of Natalie Portman says he is converting"},"content":{"rendered":"

JERUSALEM (JTA) — French choreographer Benjamin Millepied, the husband of Jewish actress Natalie Portman, told an Israeli newspaper that he is converting to Judaism.<\/p>\n

Millepied told the Hebrew-language Yediot Acharonot in an article published Wednesday that he is \u201cin the middle of the conversion process.” He added that he hopes the process will “come to an end soon and I will become a Jew.\u201d<\/p>\n

Becoming Jewish is \u201cvery important for me,\u201d Millepied told the newspaper.<\/p>\n

The couple is in Israel through March as Portman casts the movie that she is directing based on “A Tale of Love and Darkness,” a book by Israeli author Amos Oz.<\/p>\n

The couple will relocate to Paris, where Millepied will work as director of dance at the Paris Opera Ballet<\/p>\n

Portman said in September in an interview with the French magazine Madame Figaro that she is interested in becoming a French citizen.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have the French nationality, but I would be love to get it. But I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s possible because I already have an American and an Israeli passport,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Portman and Millepied, who have a son named Aleph, were married in a Jewish wedding ceremony last year.<\/p>\n

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