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O - Y- VEY!"
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the New York Post blared across
its front page in three-inch letters last
week. "Hillary's ALMOST Jewish."
An accompanying column carried the
headline, "The First Shiksa wants to be a
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New York's supercharged Senate campaign
took a distinctly Jewish turn last week when
the Forward, a weekly Jewish newspaper,
reported that Clinton has some Jews on her
family tree. Her step-grandfather was Jewish
and her mother's half-sister later converted.
The newspaper said Clinton's maternal
grandmother, Della Murray, divorced her
husband in 1927 and remarried Max
Rosenberg in 1933. Together they had a
daughter, Adeline.
The Forward called Clinton's grandmother,
Della Rosenberg, "the feisty wife of a Yiddish-
speaking Jewish immigrant" and predicted that
the revelation would boost her Senate chances.
But even if Clinton were Jewish, her back-
ground would not influence Jewish voters,
according to pollsters, analysts and politicians.
"Ethnicity has very little to do with how
Jews vote," said John Zogby, president of
Zogby International, a New York-based
polling firm that has conducted many surveys
of Jewish voters. "Basically, those who really
viscerally dislike Hillary will add another
notch in the column and ask, 'What's she try-
ing to do?' " Zogby said.
With one out of every eight voters in New
York Jewish, Zogby predicts that the winner of
the Jel,vish vote will win the election. His polls
show New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani leading
Clinton, 44 percent to 42 percent, among
Jewish voters and 47 to 42 among all voters.
Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch
said the story was much ado about nothing.
"I'm a proud member of the Jewish faith," he
said, "and it would be wonderful if Hillary
were Jewish. But she's not."
—Matt Dorf/JTA
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Yiddish Limericks
"A yor un a mitvoch,"* said Sy
"It takes me to move, though I try.
My speech is a curse,"
He said, but what's worse
Is once I'm there, gai gedaink** why!"
(literal) A year and a Wednesday
(idiomatic) forever and a day
go remember
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— Martha Jo Fleischmann
Who was Joseph Karol
R
abbi Joseph Ben Ephraim Karo (1488-1575) is the
author of the legal code of Judaism known as the
Shulchan Aruch. Together with Rabbi Moses Iserles' commen-
tary, Mahpa, the Shulchan Aruch stands unchallenged among the great
works of Jewish law. It was the first to include the differing customs and
codes of both Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews.
Karo was born in Toledo, Castile, although some speculate that his
family moved to Portugal before the Spanish Inquisition of 1492 and
that Karo was actually born there. When the Jews were expelled from
Portugal in 1497, his family moved to Turkey, where he lived for about
40 years. In 1536, he left Turkey for Safed and served as a rabbi and cosh
yeshiva until his death.
When he wasn't studying halacha (Jewish law), Karo delved into kab-
bala (Jewish mysticism). Today, Jews from around the world visit the
rabbi's grave at the Karo Synagogue in Safed's Synagogue Quarter.
— Steven H. Pollak
Source: Encyclopedia Judaica
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