Monday, September 08, 2008

Michelle Obama's Cousin is a...Rabbi?

It's all over, starting in The Forward.

My friend, SoccerDad, titled this "Funnye you don't look Jewish".

Why?

Michelle Obama's first cousin once removed, Capers Funnye, is the chief rabbi of the Beth Shalom B'nei Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation in southwest Chicago

2 comments:

Risa Tzohar said...

Todd Palin is descended from the Yupik Eskimos. Everyone knows the Eskimos are one of the ten lost tribes.

YMedad said...

You didn't read Mordechai Richler's "Solomon Gursky Was Here"? To do so, you'll be able to answer this question: Why do the members of an Eskimo tribe wear shawls with four fringes? And you'll find out that "soon after the death of Bernard, "a raven skewered and harpooned" (P.257) was found on his grave. Upon further examination. The harpoon was declared to "clearly be an Eskimo artifact" (P.158). Also caved into the harpoon was a gimle (a Hebrew symbol). This evidence points to Solomon because he, as his grandfather was, is continually associated with the raven. Solomon as a child was hand-picked by his grandfather Ephraim, as the chosen one of the three brothers and was taken to the arctic to learn the Inuit way of life. Solomon's ability to make and use this Inuit harpoon, strengthens his association with the desecration of his brother's grave." And the great scene near the end of celbrating Shabbat in the frozen north.