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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