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Win or lose, U.S. presidential hopeful John Kerry will receive an honorary citizenship in the Czech town of Horni Benesov, where his grandfather was born and lived in the late 19th century. "The life story of John Kerry is amazing, showing how a boy from a poor family and a village in what used to be the Austro- Hungarian empire can become a candidate for the U.S. presidency," Horni Benesov Mayor Josef Klech said on Tuesday. Klech said the town of 2,400 inhabitants would bestow the honour on the U.S. Senator from Massachusetts "no matter how he does" in the...

John Kerry's Jewish Roots Fooled you! And you, and you, and you. Even the best friends of Senator John Forbes Kerry, a practicing Catholic from Massachusetts (the state which contains America’s largest Irish Catholic population), thought of him as an American Irish Catholic through and through. The discovery of Kerry’s European Jewish roots has surprised many people, including the senator himself. Benedikt Kohn (Great-Grandfather) Benedikt Kohn, the great-grandfather of Senator John Kerry, was born about 1824 in southern Moravia. Benedikt was successful as a master brewer of beer. In 1868, after the death of his first wife, he moved to...

How long will it be, before Kerry announces, that he has JUST DISCOVERED, he has Jewish roots?

By the time John Kerry's father, Richard, published his only book, The Star-Spangled Mirror, in 1990, he should have been a mellow man. Nearly 30 years had passed since his retirement from the Foreign Service, where he'd filled mid-level posts in Washington, Berlin, and Oslo. His central issue, the cold war, had followed him into retirement with the crumbling of the Berlin Wall and rise of glasnost in Russia. When the 75-year-old Kerry wasn't working on his book, he could be found building model ships and sailing off Cape Cod. If he had any reasons for professional bitterness, they should...

Religion: Roman Catholic Religious Life: Kerry is about as Irish-Catholic sounding name as there is. But just last year the Boston Globe revealed another religion in Kerry's background. Kerry knew his paternal grandmother was probably Jewish. But the Boston Globe discovered what Kerry didn't know. His grandfather was a Czech Jew named Fritz Kohn who changed his name to Frederick Kerry to escape anti-Semitism. Kohn randomly dropped a pencil on a map of Europe, spotted Ireland's County Kerry, and adopted the name, according to the Globe. Kohn and his wife, Ida Lowe, who was born Jewish in Budapest, changed their...

In May 18, 1905, Frederick A. Kerry, a 32-year-old Viennese, arrived in New York City by steamship, the Königin Luise, with his wife and 4-year-old son, hopeful that his new country would bring him the success and social acceptance that had eluded him in Europe. Mr. Kerry probably could not have imagined that within a century a grandson, John Forbes Kerry, would find himself the Democratic candidate for president. Frederick Kerry brought with him a secret: he was born a Jew, Fritz Kohn, in what is now the Czech Republic, but he and his wife, Ida, had converted to Roman...

French Going Wild For Senator Kerry In Election Fever ‘A CERTAIN ELEGANCE’ IS SEEN By MICHAEL MANVILLE Special to the Sun PARIS — It could be the flawless French he learned while at boarding school in Switzerland. Or that he summered in his youth at a picturesque village on the rocky shores of Brittany. Or his pledge to take America’s allies more seriously and pursue an inclusive foreign policy. Or maybe it’s the simple fact that he’s not President Bush. Whatever the reason, the French are going wild for John Kerry. His face graces the covers of magazines and newspapers...

A JEWISH CZECH IN JOHN KERRY'S COURT by Jennifer Anne Perez The saga of a U.S. senator and presidential contender in search of his roots--and his reaction to the "revelation." Photo of the "genealogical revelation" detailing John Kerry’s ancestry by Dana Wilson. even years ago, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was confronted with a genealogical discovery: her Czech émigré parents were Jewish. They'd hidden their Jewish roots during and after the Second World War. More than a dozen of her Jewish relatives, including three grandparents, an aunt, an uncle and a first cousin, had all perished in the Nazi...

Kerry the Torch A Jew in the White House? America can’t wait. Okay, okay, alright already; Horni Benesov is a funny name. Maybe it’s not Lake Titicaca, but it’s up there. And as a presidential town of origin, it sure as hell beats Midland, TX. But why has the Western media been so horny for Horni, a small, frankly piece-of-shit town in northern Moravia, on the Polish-Czech border? Sen. John Kerry, probable Democratic nominee for the presidency, found out last year–courtesy of a Vienna genealogist on the Boston Globe’s payroll–that his familial roots lie in the Czech town of Horni...