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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reveals Jewish ancestry at Hanukkah celebration
Boston Globe ^ | 12/10/18 | Isaac Stanley-Becker

Posted on 12/10/2018 9:43:19 AM PST by Libloather

Hanukkah celebrates the miracle that oil thought to be enough for only one day burned instead for eight. So the Jewish festival of lights is also, in a way, a celebration of surprise.

A temple in Queens got a small dose of surprise on Sunday - the final night of Hanukkah - when Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York Democrat with a knack for dramatic flourish, told those gathered to light the menorah that her ancestors were Jewish.

‘‘One of the things that we discovered about ourselves is that a very, very long time ago, generations and generations ago, my family consisted of Sephardic Jews,’’ Ocasio-Cortez said. These are Jews who settled in the Middle East, North Africa and southern Europe after the Jewish diaspora. They were expelled from Spain in 1492.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts; US: New York; US: Vermont
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To: Libloather

Just wait until Black History Month and St. Patrick’s Day.

At least she covered her ass by making it so many generations ago that, if the DNA test is a bust, there will be an explanation.


41 posted on 12/10/2018 10:14:16 AM PST by DPMD
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To: Libloather

42 posted on 12/10/2018 10:14:26 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Libloather
It’s a trap! Go back! She wants everybody to make fun of her before she reveals her great uncle, Rabbi Misha Ocasio-Rabinowitz-Cortez, of the Westchester Rabinowitz-Cortezes.

I'm warning you all - she knows how to play the media game.

43 posted on 12/10/2018 10:15:56 AM PST by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: reg45
The Jews that were expelled from Spain by her other ancestors.

Excellent! . . . The Catholic ancestors who kicked out the Jewish ancestors for siding with the Moslem oppressors--who may have been her ancestors as well--who were trying to eradicate her Catholic ancestors.

My ancestors were Sephardic, too. Maybe I should have run for Congress. I'm somewhat less goofy.

44 posted on 12/10/2018 10:18:10 AM PST by SamuraiScot (am)
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To: shelterguy

1492 was the year the first Congressman was inaugurated. DUH!!!

She got it confused with 1942 the year the Germans
bombed Pearl Harbor.


45 posted on 12/10/2018 10:18:48 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: billorites

ROFL!! Now that’s funny!!


46 posted on 12/10/2018 10:20:28 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: xkaydet65
For an expelled Jew fleeing Spain, going to Puerto Rico would have been like a slave escaping from South Carolina and seeking refuge in Tennessee.

The first Jews to emigrate to New York City (1664) were Sephardim who had been in the Caribbean islands since 1492 or thereafter. I don't know if they were on Puerto (Porto) Rico specifically, but sometimes with empires, they just wink and kick you out to the far reaches where they don't have to think about you. A lot of Jews went to Holland and England as well.

47 posted on 12/10/2018 10:26:51 AM PST by SamuraiScot (am)
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To: Libloather

She is so dumb she’ll probably claim to be circumcised


48 posted on 12/10/2018 10:28:00 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines (Their side circles the wagons. Our side revs up the bus.)
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To: Libloather

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez-Zelig, Leonard Zeligs sister.


49 posted on 12/10/2018 10:29:54 AM PST by radmanptn
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To: SamuraiScot
"Maybe I should have run for Congress. I'm somewhat less goofy."

Well then you wouldn't win if you live in a blue district. The dems have turned into circus freaks and the reputards are the scum out front shilling for them.

50 posted on 12/10/2018 10:30:03 AM PST by TheTimeOfMan (A time for peace and a time for war)
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To: Libloather

She’s about as Jewish as Elizabeth Warren is American Indian.


51 posted on 12/10/2018 10:33:00 AM PST by Kazan
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To: SamuraiScot

The Three Stooges are less goofy.


52 posted on 12/10/2018 10:36:33 AM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Kazan

Yes, but “Jewish” cannot be determined through a DNA test. I guess she isn’t as stupid as we thought.

Just kidding.

She is an idiot.


53 posted on 12/10/2018 10:36:38 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
One of the things that we discovered about ourselves is that a very, very long time ago, generations and generations ago, my family consisted of Sephardic Jews
More recent ancestors include Mister Edd.

54 posted on 12/10/2018 10:36:50 AM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: Libloather

Could very well be true. There were lots of Jews living in Spain during the Inquisition who converted to Christianity and moved to the New World. That’s why many Hispanics have names like Israel and Emmanuel. Lots of Hispanics who consider themselves to be Catholics light candles on Friday night and don’t eat pork, because that’s what their parents and grandparents did, and they never knew why. Then they found out they had Jewish ancestors.


55 posted on 12/10/2018 10:36:51 AM PST by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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To: Libloather

....but her heart is with Palastine.


56 posted on 12/10/2018 10:40:10 AM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
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To: OpusatFR

Pandering, that’s what some democrats do best.


57 posted on 12/10/2018 10:41:52 AM PST by tillacum (I am a conservative deplorable and doggone proud of it. I back President Trump, I voted for him.)
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58 posted on 12/10/2018 10:44:49 AM PST by timestax
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To: xkaydet65
It's possible she had Jewish ancestors who came to the New World. A number of Sephardic Jews became baptized and lived as Christians. A number ended up in New Mexico. Some kept reminders of their past, but well hidden.

I'm not saying it's true in her case, however, given that she can be a pathological liar.

59 posted on 12/10/2018 10:44:57 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: Libloather
Hillary Clinton also suddenly discovered Jewish ancestors when she was running for Senator of New York.

-PJ

60 posted on 12/10/2018 10:45:01 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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