Short answer: No. Post Malone, born Austin Richard Post, was raised in a Christian household in a family of churchgoers, and no reputable source documents any Jewish parentage, ancestry, upbringing, or conversion. As of a November 2017 interview he described himself as no longer religiously affiliated.
What the record actually shows
- Born Austin Richard Post on July 4, 1995, in Syracuse, New York. According to his Wikipedia biography, he was "raised by his father, Richard Post, and his stepmother, Jodie."
- A Christian upbringing. The same record states that he "grew up in a Christian household in a family of church attendees" and that, as of November 2017, "he is not religiously affiliated." The underlying reporting is a November 2017 Rolling Stone profile.
- His own words, November 2017. In that Rolling Stone interview he said: "I used to be super-religious. I believed in God. But now I see through it." He added that "it's nice to support something you believe in, I guess, but people are spending so much money, and God doesn't care that your church has a f------ gold roof." The quotes were reported by XXL and The Christian Post. He was criticizing Hillsong Church and Justin Bieber's involvement with it, saying of Bieber, "He's gotten super-religious recently. Real culty ... It's a total cult."
- The family moved to Texas for a football job. His father, Rich Post, worked as the Dallas Cowboys' assistant director of food and beverage from 2005 to 2019, the job that took the family from Syracuse to Grapevine, Texas, as reported by Us Weekly. "It's just beyond something that we could've imagined when he started this musical career or I started my job with the Dallas Cowboys," his father said.
- November 27, 2025: he played the halftime show at the Cowboys vs. Kansas City Chiefs Thanksgiving game at AT&T Stadium, the Salvation Army Red Kettle Kickoff, CBS News Texas reported. The Salvation Army is a Christian organization, but this was the Cowboys' halftime slot in a 28-year stadium tradition, not a statement of faith.
- No Jewish-community record. Jewish outlets have had essentially nothing to say about him beyond the dybbuk box episode.
Why people ask
Two things drive the question, and neither one holds up. The first is the surname. "Post" is his real family name, carried by both Jewish and non-Jewish American families, and the "Malone" half is not a family name at all. He picked it as a teenager from an online rap name generator: "I put my name in a rap name generator, and it said 'Post Malone,'" he told Noisey. American Songwriter describes it the same way, as "a combination of his last name, Post, and the rest was provided by a rap name generator online." A half-invented stage name tells you nothing about anyone's ancestry, and name-based inference is exactly the thing that fails here.
The second is the dybbuk box. In June 2018 he toured Zak Bagans' Haunted Museum in Las Vegas, where Bagans handled a so-called dybbuk box. Over the following months he had an emergency plane landing (August 21, 2018), an armed home invasion at his former house, where robbers looking for him pistol-whipped the current resident (September 1), and a car crash (September 7), after which he tweeted "god must hate me lol". Bagans publicly blamed the box's curse. A dybbuk is a Yiddish term for a malicious, restless spirit believed to possess the living, so a heavily Jewish-folklore word ended up attached to his name across global tabloid coverage in late 2018. That is likely where the association started. It is worth noting that Hey Alma, the Jewish outlet that covered the episode, quoted a scholar with a PhD in Jewish studies dismissing the box's provenance story as likely fake. The object is a 2003 eBay artifact, not an authentic Jewish ritual item. It is internet legend, not Jewish practice, and it says nothing about his background.
Post Malone and Israel
There is no public record of Post Malone commenting on Israel, on antisemitism, or on the October 7 attacks and their aftermath, and no record of him performing in Israel. He appeared on Kanye West's 2016 track "Fade," but no response from him to West's 2022 antisemitic remarks is documented either. He has simply not addressed these subjects publicly. Full details in our companion piece Does Post Malone Support Israel?.
The bottom line
Post Malone is not Jewish. He was raised in a Christian, churchgoing household that moved from upstate New York to Texas, and by his own account in 2017 he had left religion behind rather than joined another one. The Jewish-sounding pieces of his story, a surname shared across communities and a cursed box with a Yiddish name, are coincidence and internet folklore.
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Last updated August 2026. We update these profiles as the record changes.
