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April 18, 2012 1:21 pm at 1:21 pm #602969outreach613Participant
Is it true that Reb Chaim Volzhin’s great-great-grandson is the current President of Israel, Shimon Peres?
April 18, 2012 2:51 pm at 2:51 pm #994458popa_bar_abbaParticipantNu. And so what? Also avraham avinu.
April 18, 2012 4:10 pm at 4:10 pm #994459Avi KParticipantI don’t know but it is true that he is a first cousin of Lauren Bacall.
April 18, 2012 4:39 pm at 4:39 pm #994460hello99ParticipantNot likely. Peres’ family were Alexander Chassidim
April 18, 2012 4:39 pm at 4:39 pm #994461squeakParticipantIs it true that Rav Shach is a great great grandson of haman? I think its a befeirush gemarah.
April 18, 2012 6:50 pm at 6:50 pm #994462MDGParticipantLauren Bacall’s father’s name was Persky (sp?) like Shimon Peres’ original name. Peres changed it to sound more Hebraic. Bacall changed her last name to her mother’s maiden name when her father walked out on them.
April 18, 2012 7:13 pm at 7:13 pm #994463zahavasdadParticipantGweneth Paltrow and Gabrielle Giffords (They are first cousins) are decendents of The Taz
April 18, 2012 8:08 pm at 8:08 pm #994464BaalHaboozeParticipantoh lordy lordy lordy! I’m in that weird part of the CR again…
April 19, 2012 6:14 am at 6:14 am #994465Avi KParticipantStatistically we are all likely to be descendants of David haMelech.
April 19, 2012 1:58 pm at 1:58 pm #994466midwesternerParticipantShamaya and Avtalyon were descended from Sancheriv. It says mibnei banav shel Haman lamdu Torah biVnei Brak.
Rav Yaakov Galinski shlit”a was having trouble getting his son into Ponovezh. So he called the Ponovezher Rav and said, “mibnei banav shel Haman lamdu Torah biVnei Brak, und far mein zun is nit duh kein platz?”
The Ponovezher Rav told him that, “Haman’s einiklach were politically connected, and they had better protektzia!”
(Heard from Rav Galinski himself while delivering a Purim Drasha)
April 20, 2012 12:26 am at 12:26 am #994467🍫Syag LchochmaParticipantI am an einekel of Reb Chaim of Vilozhins brother Zalman.
December 17, 2013 11:46 am at 11:46 am #994468ZushyParticipantShimon Peres definitely comes from lithuanina background – not Alexander chassidim.
Yitzchok Rabin and Ya’ir lapid are both from chassidic dynasties, And Rivlin, although more distanly connected is an tenth generation descendant of the baal hatanya. He actually spoke at a labuvitch ceremony once on yat teves in binyanei ha’oomah.
I think since many of our gedoilim were blessed with unusaul talents and/or tremendous determination and persistence it makes sense tha there fried out einiklach ended up much further in life.
December 17, 2013 2:15 pm at 2:15 pm #994469crisisoftheweekMemberAnd most of us are descendants of Khazzars
December 17, 2013 5:31 pm at 5:31 pm #994470MDGParticipant“And most of us are descendants of Khazzars “
Many people still show it.
December 17, 2013 7:20 pm at 7:20 pm #994472R.T.ParticipantOnly thing I can say for certain, is that we are all descendants of Shem, Cham or Yefet.
December 17, 2013 11:49 pm at 11:49 pm #994473benignumanParticipantcrisis,
That is not true. That is a claim made by some but it doesn’t have much basis in history or genetics. The genetic studies I have seen have seen have estimated that only 12 or 13% of Ashkenazi Jewish blood is from the Khazars and other geirim.
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