o'connor a yid!?

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  • #612771
    the plumber
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    Figured, if it’s in the news, than kal vechomer, it should be in the cr.

    O’connor is a yid!?

    It’s ridiculous!

    Did he know?

    It’s that why he was so friendly with rabbi scherer?

    Is it a chillul Hashem? Kiddush Hashem?

    Or is it irrelevant?

    #1015284
    golfer
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    Ridiculous? –

    I’d say tragic.

    Irrelevant? –

    To his Neshama, certainly not.

    To the rest of us, relevant only as far as “kol Yisrael areivim…”

    #1015285
    oomis
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    Tragic that he grew up to be completely unaware of his roots. He clearly had a kesher with the Jewish community; perhaps the pintele Yid was asserting itself.

    #1015286
    akuperma
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    A large number of goyim are probably Yidden. Whether through girls going off the derekh, or girls getting captured, Jewish genes have been well distributed through the western world (which includes the Middle East).

    Good argument against hiring a Shabbos Goy unless he’s from an area that never had a Jewish community until recently.

    #1015287
    golfer
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    Interesting, oomis.

    Your posts never fail to get either of 2 reactions from me-

    Usually: Completely agree!

    Sometimes: Completely disagree!

    But you never get an indifferent shrug.

    Guess you know what I thought of this one…

    #1015288
    oomis
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    Golfer – I NEVER assume!!!!!! 🙂

    #1015290
    Yserbius123
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    I’ve got a friend named O’Connor. Smart guy, made more than a few siyumim.

    #1015291
    the plumber
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    I’ve also got a friend named o’connor, he became a big cardinal in nyc

    #1015292
    pixelate
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    @the plumber

    I thought NYC only had pigeons

    #1015293
    oomis
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    I thought NYC only had pigeons “

    {{{groan}}} I actually had a cardinal flying around the front of my house today. The bird, not the man.

    #1015294
    gefen
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    I read the story in the Jewish Press. Quite interesting that he felt connected to the Jews. I found it so interesting that he made comments such as “Tody, I am, with you, a Jew” and a few other things they quoted him saying. Seems like the pintele Yid showing through.

    It is, however, very sad and tragic that he didn’t know he was a Jew. He obviously did not have a Jewish burial and is not in a Jewish cemetery – through no fault of his own.

    #1015295
    👑RebYidd23
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    There are plenty of starlings and sparrows in New York.

    #1015296
    cherrybim
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    M’ikar Hadin, O’Connor would have been counted for a minyan and receive an aliyah. I have a friend, Houlihan, in the same situation. He has more midos tovos than most frum yidden I know.

    #1015297
    twisted
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    In my time in mew york, we lived in a nicely treed area, and I kept the place as an organic green lung chaos. As an aid to getting up every day for netx, a cardinal kept a perch right outside our bedroom window, and he started his routine at misheyakir.

    #1015298
    Mammele
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    It’s definitely sad, not irrelevant because his sister has children, who probably now know they’re Jewish and we don’t know what the future holds for them or their (Halachically Jewish) offspring.

    However, I have a strong suspicion that O’Connor knew all along. He knew that his mother converted but thought she was Lutheran prior? For someone so into religious teachings I find it hard to believe that he never researched his “roots” or questioned his mother about her conversion.

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