MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Faith an' begorra, the Cardinal is after doin' the Hora!...
By jollyroger on Tue, 06/10/2014 - 2:04pm |A landsman! (I always wondered about the red yarmulke...)
URL:
http://www.jewishledger.com/2014/05/cardinal-oconnors-grandfather-a-rabbi-in-bridgeport/
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O' Connor could'a been the first jewish Pope since Peter!
by jollyroger on Tue, 06/10/2014 - 2:25pm
Hee. Check out the picture in the middle of the Times article about this. You see three rabbis meeting the Cardinal, and the one with the beard, Moses Birnbaum, was my rabbi back in the day. So as you can surmise from this, we had to infiltrate the Vatican somehow, and this scheme had the advantage of working really well I'd say, no? :)
by Bruce Levine on Tue, 06/10/2014 - 8:32pm
Of course, the interesting wrinkle (vis-a-vis the means of infiltration ) is the matrilineal descent of Jewish nationality--putting something of a reverse spin on William F Buckley's witticism in re: "sexy shiksas...." (To my best recollection "The real threat to the survival of the Jewish people is sexy shiksas...")
by jollyroger on Tue, 06/10/2014 - 11:43pm
I think the Pope has a small button atop his headwear.
Jews don't have that button.
Then again, maybe I'm thinking of a beret.
by Peter Schwartz on Thu, 06/12/2014 - 10:46am
Wikipedia 'splains:
by artappraiser on Sun, 06/15/2014 - 12:17pm