Meet Cameron Kerry, the Jewish, pro-Israel brother of John Kerry [Hidden by MSM from leftist base]

As many of you know, one of the things John Kerry's leftist base is most uncomfortable about is his strong support (at least on paper) of Israel. In fact, his pro-Israel policy paper last week caused severe consternation among Kerry supporters.

There is a little secret that the media has kept from the people, in deference to the anti-Israel stance of the left wing of the Democratic party, and that is the existence of the Jewish brother of John Kerry, Cameron Kerry. Not only is he a converted Jew, he is a prominent lawyer for a major Boston law firm which represents many high profile Israeli business interests. Read below for a profile of Cameron Kerry from Forward magazine:

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When Massachusetts Senator John Kerry learned last year that his paternal grandparents in 19th-century Austria had converted to Catholicism from Judaism, one of the first people he called was his younger brother, Cameron.

In an interview at John Kerry's New York headquarters last Friday, Cameron Kerry told the Forward that his family had "an inkling" that they had a Jewish grandmother, but no "concrete" evidence. Furthermore, he said, his grandparents' conversion, which was discovered by the Boston Globe, struck him as "ironic." The younger Kerry, 53, had converted to Judaism from Catholicism in 1983, upon marrying a Jewish woman, Kathy Weinman.

Cameron Kerry, who lives in Boston, was in New York last weekend politicking for his brother in advance of the March 2 New York Democratic primary. One of the campaign's most public faces in the Jewish community, he spent the Sabbath at Manhattan synagogues and stayed in local homes. On Sunday, he and his brother met with some 40 Jewish communal leaders in Manhattan at a gathering that got glowing reviews in the next day's newspapers. The candidate impressed attendees with his knowledge of Middle Eastern affairs and his emotional grasp of the issues. He also got a chance to correct an earlier faux pas, in which he had suggested naming two figures who are unpopular with the Jewish community — former secretary of state James Baker and former president Carter — as possible envoys to the Middle East.

"It was Cam's doing to bring that together and make that happen," said Alan Solomont, a Jewish philanthropist and fund-raiser for Senator Kerry who attended the meeting. "He understood the importance of John getting in front of the community... of showing his incredible intellectual depth."

Cameron Kerry, who said his brother was "supportive" of his decision to convert, has given the senator some first-hand experience with Judaism. Kerry and his wife have raised their two daughters in the Reform tradition, with baby namings and bat mitzvahs. John Kerry attended those functions as a treasured uncle, and while he hasn't celebrated Jewish holidays such as Passover with the family, "he has been to Shabbat dinner," Cameron Kerry said. So, in a historical first, the probable Democratic presidential nominee not only possesses Jewish roots — and, it was discovered last week, relatives who died in Nazi death camps — but some Jewish family experiences.

In a campaign that heralds a "band of brothers," namely the fellow veterans who have flocked to the war hero's camp, it seems fitting that the candidate's biological brother would figure prominently. The brothers are close, so close in fact that the younger Kerry has served as one of his sibling's chief counselors and strategists on all of his campaigns, from his unsuccessful run for Congress in 1972 through some tough subsequent contests. His role as political strategist has turned Cameron Kerry into a story in his own right more than once.

In 1972, in what the family says was a "setup," he was arrested for having broken into a building that housed the campaign's phone lines. A caller had tipped him off to the threat that an opponent would cut the lines, but the police caught Cameron Kerry instead.

A recent New York Times profile examined Kerry's role in the axing of Jim Jordan, his brother's popular campaign manager, comparing him to the late Robert Kennedy, who gained a reputation for ruthlessness as John Kennedy's campaign manager in the 1960 presidential campaign.

James Segel, a Boston Democratic activist who has known Kerry for 30 years, laughed at the comparison.

"Cam is tough, but he doesn't give the impression of being ruthless," Segel said. "I would not compare him in style to the Bob Kennedy of the 1960 campaign. As confidant to the candidate, there's a comparison there. John Kennedy had 110% confidence in Bob, and John Kerry has 110% confidence in Cam."

Segel and others describe the younger Kerry as his brother's eyes and ears on the campaign, "kind of quiet" and "not obtrusive" but with "very good political judgment."

"He gives good, honest advice to his brother, and that's rare, because too often people tell the candidate what they want to hear," Segel said.

A more apt comparison than the Kennedys might be to another dynamic duo, Batman and Robin. The younger Kerry looks like a boyish version of his 60-year-old brother, who stands several inches taller and whose features are craggier. He speaks about Senator Kerry in terms Robin might have used for the caped crusader, too.

"There's nobody I want more by my side in a tough situation than my brother," Kerry said. "That's what his crewmates have seen, and that's what more and more and more people have seen in this country as this campaign has unfolded."

The Kerry campers and others consulted for this article all praised Cameron Kerry as a thoughtful, self-effacing, gentle man. He's even a hero to his rabbi. Rabbi Ronne Friedman of Temple Israel of Brookline, Mass., recounts how last year Kerry's family took the lead in the class project of his daughter's b'nei mitzvah class, to build a playground for an urban school in Roxbury. The family helped raise money, worked with the parents of the school and assembled dozens of volunteers for the construction, according to Friedman.

"He's present in the pew with regard to worship, and whenever time allows has been a student," Friedman said. "He's genuinely an intellect and has an interest in Judaism from an intellectual point of view."

Kathy Weinman Kerry is a member of the synagogue's board and its ritual committee.

Cameron Kerry's Jewish connections also extend to his business life, and have paid off for John Kerry. A telecommunications lawyer, Kerry works at a Boston-based firm, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, although he has taken a leave to work on the campaign. While Mintz Levin is now a diverse, 450-lawyer shop, it was once known as the "Lox et Veritas" firm — a play on the Yale motto "Lux et Veritas" — having been founded in 1933 by Jewish lawyers "who weren't entirely accepted at white-shoe firms," Kerry said. The firm, which built itself up as counselors to the Jewish entrepreneurs of Boston, even now has a big business in helping Israeli high-tech entrepreneurs gain access to American markets.

Kerry has made rain handsomely for his brother at Mintz Levin. Employees of the firm have emerged as the second-largest source of contributions to the candidate in this election cycle, providing a total $113,500 in contributions, according to the Web site of the Center for Responsive Politics.

The younger Kerry describes the campaign fund raising in the Jewish community as "very strong," thanks to the efforts of Solomont, national campaign finance chairman Louis Susman and Denver fund-raiser Ron Brownstein.

As a strategist, Cameron Kerry said, the decision of which he is most proud was "to shift gears from being a national campaign to focus on Iowa."

John Kerry's surprise win there started the momentum that has carried his candidacy forward to the point where it appeared to have locked up the Democratic nomination after wins in 9 of the 10 states that voted this week.

But Cameron Kerry may have another role: humanizing the John Kerry often pilloried by the press as stiff and aloof. Kerry said he doesn't recognize that figure.

"He's somebody with very intense personal relationships," he said of the senator. "You can see on this campaign, it's impressive the number of people who have intense loyalties going back a lot of years. It's a reflection of the deeply loyal relationships he has."

SO tell me what happened to all the Jewish decendants of the early church, I bet not one Rabbi has a clue how to answer that question.

I've answered this a couple of times. Their Jewishness ceased to matter to them, they abandoned the commandments of the Torah, and they intermarried themselves out of existence.

like you said it was 80 or so Generations ago and from those tribes are Jewish Christians.....

Sigh. It really is pointless talking with you, missyme. You hear only what you want to hear, and what you can pick and choose to support your preconceived notions.

After 80 generations of intermarriage, the likelihood of there being any substantial number of present-day Christians who (unbeknownst to them) are halakhically Jewish, is vanishingly remote.

Okay you say that the Jewish Christians vanished through-out time, even though I do not agree with that, there is still a point to be made here, that is WHO are the JEWS that GOD claimed were Chosen? are they present day Jews who practice any form of Judiasm? are they Jews who can only identify themselves with proof of a Jewish Mother?

What I am saying is that if you believe the Chosen People were the 12 Tribes of Israel that would include the early Christians Jews from the 12 Tribes that knew there geneaology that being the case how do you dispute there lineage as Chosen?

If the early christians (JEWS) followed TORAH which they did even after they believed Jesus Christ was the risen Messiah how can you say there Jewishness does not matter anymore ?didn't you say if you have a Jewish mother but are an Athesist than your still a JEW? is that not the same for the Jews who walked along Jesus's side in Biblical Israel? Just trying to understand where your coming from with Biblical and Today's JEWS and GODs Chosen People...

Malakhi
There is so much assimilation today and over thousands of years this statement from Dueteronomy is pointless. I have listened to Rabbinical Judiasm say that if you have a Jewish mother and are an atheist you still have a Jewish Soul that seperates you from the Gentile. How does that correlate with your Statement? Again not trying to frustrate you but trying to get a clear picture on your statements.

'THIS IS FROM JEWS FOR JUDAISM"
Here’s what a Jew is: a Jew is a spiritual state of being. A Jew is any human being who has a Jewish soul, regardless of his or her race, lifestyle or professed religion. (SO WHAT ABOUT ALL THE JEWISH CHRISTIANS IN BIBLICAL ISRAEL?)

You can be as hip as Jerry Seinfeld, as religious as Moses, as left-wing as Barbra Streisand or as conservative as your uncle Irving—you’re still Jewish. You could be an environmentalist, an industrialist, a fundamentalist—you’re still Jewish. You could try as hard as you can to be just like your neighbors—you’re still Jewish. You could “convert” to Christianity, or run off to India to “become” Buddhist—you’re still Jewish. You could even become an anti-Semite—you’re still Jewish. (Shocking but true, Jews have done that too—ever hear of Bobby Fischer?) You could be Caucasian, Negro, Hispanic; Irish, Norwegian, Hyphenated-American; whatever. No matter who you are or what you do, if you’ve got that Jewish soul, you’re Jewish. And nothing you do or decide to be can destroy that Jewish soul.

WHO are the JEWS that GOD claimed were Chosen? are they present day Jews

Yes.

who practice any form of Judiasm?

Being the "chosen people" doesn't mean that every individual who is part of this group is going to be obedient to God.

are they Jews who can only identify themselves with proof of a Jewish Mother?

This is the same group as you described in your first question.

What I am saying is that if you believe the Chosen People were the 12 Tribes of Israel that would include the early Christians Jews from the 12 Tribes that knew there geneaology that being the case how do you dispute there lineage as Chosen?

And I've been trying to tell you that no one questions that the immediate followers of Jesus were Jewish. It is what happened subsequently -- abandonment of Judaism, abandonment of Torah observance, and (most directly) intermarriage -- that caused them to lose their Jewishness. They lost their Jewish identity through abandonment of the Jewish religion, and they lost their connection to the Jewish people through intermarriage.

didn't you say if you have a Jewish mother but are an Athesist than your still a JEW? is that not the same for the Jews who walked along Jesus's side in Biblical Israel?

Anyone who is a Jew by birth, remains a Jew by birth whether he becomes an atheist, a Christian or anything else. He may be viewed as an apostate, he may no longer be a Jew religiously, but he remains a Jew by birth.

There is so much assimilation today and over thousands of years this statement from Dueteronomy is pointless.

The commandments of God are never pointless.

I have listened to Rabbinical Judiasm say that if you have a Jewish mother and are an atheist you still have a Jewish Soul that seperates you from the Gentile.

Yes.

How does that correlate with your Statement?

My statement is speaking across generations, not within the life of one person.

Let me give an example. Suppose there is a man who is Jewish by birth. He has little Jewish upbringing, feels little connection with the Jewish people, and feels no responsibility to obey the commandments of the Torah. He marries a gentile woman, and has children. Now, he himself, despite his actions, will always remain a Jew by birth. BUT, his children are not Jewish.

You can be as hip as Jerry Seinfeld, as religious as Moses, as left-wing as Barbra Streisand or as conservative as your uncle Irving?you?re still Jewish. You could be an environmentalist, an industrialist, a fundamentalist?you?re still Jewish. You could try as hard as you can to be just like your neighbors?you?re still Jewish. You could ?convert? to Christianity, or run off to India to ?become? Buddhist?you?re still Jewish. You could even become an anti-Semite?you?re still Jewish. (Shocking but true, Jews have done that too?ever hear of Bobby Fischer?) You could be Caucasian, Negro, Hispanic; Irish, Norwegian, Hyphenated-American; whatever. No matter who you are or what you do, if you?ve got that Jewish soul, you?re Jewish. And nothing you do or decide to be can destroy that Jewish soul.

This is correct, but leaves out one important facet.

There are two ways one becomes a Jew. By being born of a Jewish mother, or by conversion.

" Well blow me down and call me a straw house - this is the first time I've ever heard anything about Mr. Kerry's family. I wonder what else is out there?"

How about this ?
Kerry's mother was born in Paris and lived in France until she emigrated to America, in 1941-at age 28, to marry her fiancee-Richard Kerry, " an American Air Corps pilot."
She was very scared to come to America , as evidenced by her letter to Richard in 1941 :
" .. I am so scared of coming to America, but, with you I know everything will be all right.
Cheri,je t'embrasse de tout mon coeur,
Rosy "
( " John F Kerry, The Complete Biography By The Boston Globe Reporters Who Know Him Best," Page 16.)

Richard and Rosy remained in America from 1941 until 1954, when they moved back to Europe.
Kerry's mother's family lived in France and not only summered at the family compound in St Briac,France ,they wintered there and falled there and springed there.
Kerry's mother and grandmother and aunts and cousins,on the Forbes side-spoke with French accents.
Kerry's paternal grandparents,Ida and Frederich Kohn emigrated to America, from Austria, when they were in their early thirties.
They changed their name from Kohn to Kerry, to make the emigration process easier.
And they also changed their religion-from Jewish to Catholic.
It was easier at the time for Catholics to get permission to emigrate.
They spoke accented English like Arnold and Wolfgang Puck.
Kerry's family did not have a family compound in County Mayo,Ireland-they had a family compound in France.
John Kerry is a liar and a fraud.
Kerry knew his mother spoke English with a French accent.
Kerry knew his grandmother and aunts and Forbes cousins spoke English with a French accent.
Kerry knew his father's Kohn side spoke English with thick Austrian accents.
If after all this, Kerry still had no idea that he was part French, part Austrian and not Irish,he is too stupid to be President.

I highly recommend "John F Kerry, the Complete Biography.."
-it's loaded with interesting facts about John Kerry-amassed by Boston Globe reporters over the years.
Which is why the " mainstream misleadia " is totally ignoring it.

"Anyone who is a Jew by birth, remains a Jew by birth whether he becomes an atheist, a Christian or anything else. He may be viewed as an apostate, he may no longer be a Jew religiously, but he remains a Jew by birth."

There were twelve tribes, only one was called Judah. The kingdom was split. Northern was called Israel and southern called Judah.

The Northern Kingdom was taken captive by the Assyrian king and the Southern Kingdom was taken captive by the Babylonian king. The two have never been rejoined and won't be until Christ return. That is written.

My dear, if you are born Jewish, you are Jewish. Even if you are an atheist, you are still allowed to make aliyah to Israel under the law of return. If you are born Jewish but completely gave up Judaism and became an atheist, but then ever did make ba'al teshuvah, you'd be able to make aliyah to the Torah on Shabbat.

However, if you are Christian and running around claiming to be Jewish, there is no shul in the world that would allow you to make aliyah haTorah if they knew you were not born Jewish or had not had a halachic conversion.

Too bad if you cannot handle that.

"My dear, if you are born Jewish, you are Jewish. Even if you are an atheist, you are still allowed to make aliyah to Israel under the law of return. If you are born Jewish but completely gave up Judaism and became an atheist, but then ever did make ba'al teshuvah, you'd be able to make aliyah to the Torah on Shabbat.
However, if you are Christian and running around claiming to be Jewish, there is no shul in the world that would allow you to make aliyah haTorah if they knew you were not born Jewish or had not had a halachic conversion.

Too bad if you cannot handle that."

I have read the OLD and this is not Biblical!

Your making a difference between a Religious Jew and a Jew by birth..And the only JEWS that would remain GOD's chosen people would be the JEWS who remain faithful to TORAH and do not inter-marry...

You're close.

The Jews, collectively, are God's chosen people.

Membership in that group does not mean that one is exempt from sin. Scripture certainly demonstrates that!

Someone who is born a Jew, will always remain a Jew by birth no matter what.

BUT, those who abandon the Jewish religion, who abandon Torah observance, who intermarry, will eventually disappear due to assimilation.

THAT person, HIMSELF, will remain a Jew by birth. But his children will not be Jews. And within a few generations, even this paternal connection to the Jewish people will likely be completely forgotten from family memory.

In the case of a Jewish woman, the situation is slightly more complicated. HER children will be Jews. Her daughter's daughters will be Jews. But eventually, over the generations, the halakhic connection to the Jewish people will almost certainly be lost. And likewise, the very memory of the connection to the Jewish people will be lost within a few generations due to intermarriage and assimilation.

This is precisely why God commanded us not to intermarry, and why this is such a hot issue within Reform and Conservative Judaism today. The religious Jew, who obeys the commandments, will not intermarry, and thus will avoid assimilation.

Go on, go to your local Orthodox shul, tell them you weren't born Jewish nor have you had a proper conversion, and see if they let you make aliyah.

On the other hand, if Jerry Seinfeld did make ba'al teshuvah (a complete turn around), he could walk into any shul and they would be pleased to give him an honor.

Non-Jews do not get to dictate how Jews deal with 'in-house' issues.

See I have many Jewish friends and relatives through inter-marraige and they always tell me they are Jewish from a cultural standpoint which is more important than the religion itself...

Unforunately, culture alone, stripped of religion, won't stave off eventual assimilation. It may be a matter of generations, but it is almost inevitable. On the bright side, there is always a remnant...

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