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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts; US: New York; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: ancestry; aoc; berniesanders; cortez; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; elizabethwarren; fauxahontas; hanukkah; jewish; joecrowley; massachusetts; newyork; ocasiocortez; slingingbull; vermont
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To: Rashputin

She’s another sick ‘Cultural Appropriator” just like Elizabeth Warren. She is “Ocahontas”.


81 posted on 12/10/2018 12:20:54 PM PST by TonytheTiger7777
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To: Berosus

The secular government of Israel allows many non-Jews to immigrate. Such immigrants either take part in a recognized non-Jewish community, convert to Judaism, or travel outside of Israel if they want to do something like get married.

Two converts to Judaism could marry and have many children who would be 100% Jewish without having any Jewish DNA at all. And the paternal half of one’s DNA could be ‘Jewish’ without one being a Jew at all. The confusion over this is why American Jews are in danger of writing themselves out of Jewish history like Sadducees, Samaritans, Sabbateans, Frankists and others.


82 posted on 12/10/2018 12:27:44 PM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: tet68

83 posted on 12/10/2018 12:28:43 PM PST by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: alternatives?

0.00005% Jewish and 100% Moron.


84 posted on 12/10/2018 12:42:42 PM PST by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: Libloather
She is not smart enough to be Jewish.

OK, this is fake, but it's funny:


85 posted on 12/10/2018 1:08:53 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("The word 'racist' is used to describe 'every Republican that's winning'" --Donald Trump)
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To: Libloather

No comments section?

How can I answer his question?


86 posted on 12/10/2018 1:12:03 PM PST by Tzimisce
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To: Libloather

1/1024?


87 posted on 12/10/2018 1:12:34 PM PST by Tzimisce
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To: xkaydet65

In 1962 I worked in lower Manhattan, and lived in a basement apartment at 8016 25th Ave. in Jackson Heights. I walked to the bus, too the bus to the subway, and the subway downtown to around Houston St. The building where I left my tool kit, 330 Church St. was demolished to build the Twin Towers.


88 posted on 12/10/2018 1:15:30 PM PST by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: reg45

You are more right than you think.
At one point in the middle ages its estimated that the population of the Iberian penninsula was 10% Jewish. Most were converted to Chistianity after the Almohad invasion and the Christian counterattack that took Andalusia.

From the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries most Iberian Jews converted. The grandparents of Torquemada, the great inquisitor, were Jewish converts. This was typical of the Spanish bourgeois of the time.

And the final decree expelling the remaining Jews permitted them to stay if they converted, and 2/3 to 3/4ths did convert, only a minority even of this minority were expelled.

So between one or another wave of conversions, and subsequent integration into both the populace and the gentry, there is consequently a very great deal of Jewish blood in the Spanish people. Anyone with Spanish ancestry can plausibly claim Jewish descent. My grandmother for instance, was of a family long considered conversos. This claim is a common conceit, fashionable since the 19th century. There are even classic zarzuelas (operettas) on the theme.


89 posted on 12/10/2018 1:17:03 PM PST by buwaya
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To: xkaydet65

At various points it was illegal for conversos to emigrate to the Americas. No doubt some did, but very few relatively.


90 posted on 12/10/2018 1:18:47 PM PST by buwaya
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To: Libloather

No, no, no, you guys can have her back....


91 posted on 12/10/2018 1:19:23 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: reg45

Lol!


92 posted on 12/10/2018 1:20:47 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Hegemony Cricket

I swear I’m just here for the jokes. Lollll!


93 posted on 12/10/2018 1:22:02 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: billorites

I can’t stop laughing on this thread. If Ocasio-Cortes had not been born, someone would have had to invent her for comedy’s sake.


94 posted on 12/10/2018 1:23:22 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Libloather

…..”and some of my best friends are Jewish” said “Occaisional_Cortex”!


95 posted on 12/10/2018 1:29:41 PM PST by mdmathis6
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To: SamuraiScot

Sadly, being goofy is an asset for trying to get in Congress these days.


96 posted on 12/10/2018 1:48:37 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“When you’re in love, the whole world is Jewish!”


97 posted on 12/10/2018 1:51:28 PM PST by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: Yaelle

98 posted on 12/10/2018 1:54:09 PM PST by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: buwaya

And how many came in 1492? Columbus didn’t set sail to Cadiz till 1493. Maybe Loopy Very Occasionally Coherent’s ancestors caught a ride from the Timeless crew.


99 posted on 12/10/2018 1:59:55 PM PST by xkaydet65
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To: Tucker39

I was going to HS on W 16th street back then. We probablt took the Q33 to 74th and Roosevelt at the same time.


100 posted on 12/10/2018 2:01:51 PM PST by xkaydet65
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