Oh, the religious webs we weave….
Michelle Obama, wife of the Democratic presidential nominee, and Rabbi Capers Funnye, spiritual leader of a mostly black synagogue on Chicago’s South Side, are first cousins once removed. Funnye’s mother, Verdelle Robinson Funnye (born Verdelle Robinson) and Michelle Obama’s paternal grandfather, Frasier Robinson Jr., were brother and sister.
Funnye (pronounced fuh-NAY) is chief rabbi at the Beth Shalom B’nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation in southwest Chicago. He is well-known in Jewish circles for acting as a bridge between mainstream Jewry and the much smaller, and largely separate, world of black Jewish congregations, sometimes known as black Hebrews or Israelites.
I think it’s a long stretch for Jewish voters to feel a kinship with Obama simply because his wife has a first cousin (once removed) who just so happens to be a chief rabbi.
Strangely enough, this information was never hidden nor ever announced to the media. It just simply… existed.
Sort of like VP candidate Joe Biden calling himself a zionist because his son married a Jewish woman.
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Wow, so she's at least partly kinda-sorta related to Ethiopian Jews… It's cool that Chicago has a congregation of Ethiopian Israelites. I am still looking for a biography, autobiography or ethnography about that smaller sect/congregation.. and I finally found a huge list of them on http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/bibej...target=”_blank”>http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org ” target=”_blank”>http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org Cool factoid btw.
Wow, so she's at least partly kinda-sorta related to Ethiopian Jews… It's cool that Chicago has a congregation of Ethiopian Israelites. I am still looking for a biography, autobiography or ethnography about that smaller sect/congregation.. and I finally found a huge list of them on http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/bibej...target=”_blank”>http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org ” target=”_blank”>http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org Cool factoid btw.
You certainly have diverse interests, Erica! I'm heading on over to that site to check it out myself.
you totally F*in love me… well I reciprocate and raise you one. But seriously so do you… which is why i fuggn love your website. I'm like your biggest hijabi fan… or maybe the littlest cuz I'm 5'1.
Biggest hijabi fan!! hahahahha… I love it.