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Jon Gosselin Converting To Judaism For Hailey Glassman?

by Ann Murray-Yavar
Oct 12th, 2009 | 12:50 PM | Comments 172

Jon Gosselin will have a very busy holiday schedule this year. He says he’ll have to split his time visiting his girlfriend, Hailey Glassman, and his kids.

“This is the first year I will celebrate Chanukah, Hailey is Jewish” Jon tells . “I’ll see my kids [on Christmas] during the day for a couple of hours.”

Jon also said that finding new love may have even helped him find a new religion. “Everyone in my life is Jewish,” he said to the website, adding that he has been learning about Jewish traditions from her family - like holidays, Shabbat dinner and challah bread.

“The family values are great…. They are so nice,” he said about Glassman’s family. “They gave Kate a free tummy tuck, worth $20 grand. I mean, hello? It’s free surgery.”

Jon also could not stop gushing about his young lady friend. “We are going to stay together,” he said about Glassman. “She talks to people. She’s so friendly. She just goes up to people and says, ‘I love your shoes…I’m not used to that. It’s totally different than it was with Kate.”

But the father of eight doesn’t feel the same way about other women in his past, and thinks that certain moves he made were mistakes. Which ones? “Meeting Kate Major [former reporter for Star magazine] and Stephanie [Santoro], the nanny,” he said. “Those were two things.”