A big mazal tov to One Direction star Harry Styles, who turns 21 today. With 23.5 million Twitter followers, Taylor Swift’s most famous ex is bigger than Jesus, Pope Francis, McDonald’s, and the Beatles combined. He’s also an enthusiastic philo-Semite—which, I know, is a terribly old-fashioned word—but truly the only way to describe this boy-band goy who just really, really, really loves Jews.

Styles routinely tweets about Jewish holidays, and has his sister’s name tattooed on his arm (correctly!) in Hebrew. In 2013, dad Des had to step in and clarify that young Harry was, alas, “0% Jewish.” But that didn’t stop London’s Jewish Chronicle from naming Styles one of the 100 most influential figures shaping Jewish life in the U.K. in 2014. Scoff you may, but this is a bloke who can get 148,000 retweets for the statement, “I had gloves on all day.” (Look, nobody said it had to be a profound influence.)

And so! In honor of Styles reaching the legal drinking age in the U.S., we proudly present his nine most philo-Semitic Twitter moments of all time. Biz a hundert un tsvantsik yor, Harry!

It’s Yom Kippur tonight so just wanted to wish my Jewish followers well over their fast. Gemar Tov!!

— Harry Styles. (@Harry_Styles) October 7, 2011

Happy purim everybody! Enjoy your seudah today and boo loudly at hamann during the megillah!! .x — Harry Styles. (@Harry_Styles) February 24, 2013

Looking forward to seder night. Always get a bit nervous when I have to sing ma'nish ta'na. But do love a shmorreh matzah. Happy pesach x

— Harry Styles. (@Harry_Styles) March 25, 2013

A special shout out for Jewish Brit Ben Winston, who directs One Direction’s music videos:

Congratulations to @benwinston for his VMA last night.. I’m filled with nachas. Mazeltov!

— Harry Styles. (@Harry_Styles) August 26, 2013

Love the Doughnuts and Latkes. Just never understood the point of a dreidel. — Harry Styles. (@Harry_Styles) November 27, 2013

Shana Tova everyone celebrating .x — Harry Styles. (@Harry_Styles) September 23, 2014

Better load up now. Yom Kippur just around the corner. — Harry Styles. (@Harry_Styles) October 3, 2014

Polishing my dreidel and searching for oil. Chanukah sameach everybody. H — Harry Styles. (@Harry_Styles) December 16, 2014

And finally the pièce de résistance, the tekiah gedolah, from a 2013 exchange with directors Winston and Gabe Turner:

@GabeTurner73 Wise up bocha, can’t you be more of a Talmud Chachum like @benwinston? He’s a tzadik, you’re a shnorer. — Harry Styles. (@Harry_Styles) January 20, 2013

(Image: Christopher Polk/Getty)

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One Direction star and perennial heartbreaker Harry Styles has been ranked 73rd in The Jewish Chronicle’s list of the 100 most influential figures shaping Jewish life in the U.K., ahead of 27 fully-fledged MOTs—including rabbis, philanthropists, and community leaders. Before you work yourself into a frenzy worthy of this hysterical mob, let’s make one thing clear: Styles isn’t Jewish. The Chronicle is aware of this, but decided to honor the singer anyway. “The One Direction star may not be Jewish,” they explain, “but he seems very much at ease with a Jewish lifestyle.”

Styles does appear to be pretty keen on the Jews, an affinity that many have attributed to the pop star’s friendship with Ben Winston, a Jewish music video director. Styles fasted on Yom Kippur, wore a Star of David necklace to last year’s Teen Choice Awards, and had his sister’s name tattooed on his arm in Hebrew lettering. As it turns out, Styles also looks pretty good in a kippah. According to the Chronicle, “millions of British teens have become familiar with Purim, Pesach, and schepping nachas,” thanks to Styles’ enthusiastic tweets about all things Jewish.

While tattoos, necklaces, and kippahs do not a Jew make, I for one am happy to see honorary tribal membership bestowed on anyone who publicly proclaims their love for “shmorreh matzah.” And now that Styles has been welcomed into the Jewish fold, Rolling Stone reports that the pop star has buried the hatchet with ex Taylor Swift. All is right in the world.

Brigit Katz is a graduate student at NYU’s Journalism Institute, and an intern at Tablet Magazine. You can find her on Twitter at @brigitkatz. 

Related: One Direction’s Harry Styles Isn’t Jewish

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The world is wondering if One Direction’s Harry Styles is Jewish. He has a tattoo in Hebrew, he tweets with Yiddish slang, and he once was photographed dining at a kosher restaurant in Golders Green in London, the Jewish Chronicle reports.

The 19–year-old heart-throb’s regular references to Jewish life on Twitter have become the subject of fevered speculation among One Direction’s Jewish fans, and an equal level of bafflement for his more than 15 million followers on the site.

But despite all of that, Styles is probably not Jewish. His father even said so:

Still lots of queries asking if H is some % Jewish? No idea where any rumours came from in but, categorically, he is 0% Jewish. Not at all.X

— Des Styles (@desstyles) August 11, 2013

Everything will be OK. X

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