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elleng

(139,425 posts) Mon May 12, 2025, 05:29 PM Monday

On Passover, maybe? Next year at the Vatican!

Is Pope Leo Jewish? Ask his distant cousins — like me!!!

The next time someone asks sarcastically if the pope is Catholic, tell them not so fast.

He apparently has Jewish cousins. And I’m one of them.

Oh, all right — make that a third or fourth cousin, by marriage, two or three times removed. But however indirect, it’s real, with names and family lineage to prove it. >>>

https://forward.com/culture/719350/pope-leo-jewish-henry-loeb-family-tree/?

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On Passover, maybe? Next year at the Vatican! (Original Post) elleng Monday OP

Interesting article! Thanks for posting. Tanuki Monday #1

I feel for THIS guy: 70sEraVet Tuesday #2

Tanuki

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1. Interesting article! Thanks for posting.

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Mon May 12, 2025, 05:34 PM

Monday

70sEraVet

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2. I feel for THIS guy:

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Tue May 13, 2025, 05:54 PM

Tuesday

"At the Civil Rights museum, history director Ryan Jones one-upped me. “I found out I’m related to Nathan Bedford Forest” — the founder of the Ku Klux Klan, said Jones, who is Black."

Yeah, that's kinda like a Jew finding Hitler hiding in the branches of their family tree. Nathan Bedford Forest was a notorious slave-trader before the Civil War, and as a Confederate general, probably should have been tried for war crimes for the merciless slaughter of Union Colored Troops after they tried to surrender!
Remember Fort Pillow!
Thanks for the article!

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