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Title: Barack Obama's Wife's Cousin Is a "Black Hebrews" Rabbi
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URL Source: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127513
Published: Sep 7, 2008
Author: Aryeh Haffner
Post Date: 2008-09-10 15:42:48 by AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt
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Barack Obama's Wife's Cousin Is a "Black Hebrews" Rabbi by Aryeh Haffner (IsraelNN.com) Barack Obama's wife’s cousin is a Rabbi, according to the Jewish magazine Forward. Michelle Obama's first cousin once removed, Capers Funnye, shepherds the flock at a mostly black Israelite synagogue on Chicago’s South Side, the Beth Shalom B’nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew synagogue. The Black Israelite congregations, often called Black Hebrews, are a very small and mostly separate stream from mainstream Judaism and are not recognized as Jews by the Chief Rabbanite of Israel. Although Rabbi Funnye's congregation refers to itself as Ethiopian Hebrew, it is not connected to the Ethiopian Jews who have immigrated to Israel en masse in past decades and are recognized as Jews by the Israel Chief Rabbanite. Forward reports that Rabbi Funnye’s mother, Verdelle Robinson Funnye (pronounced fuh-NAY), and Mrs. Obama's paternal grandfather, Frasier Robinson Jr., were sister and brother. Rabbi Funnye converted to Judaism in a ceremony supervised by the Black Israelite rabbis. He later underwent another conversion procedure, reportedly supervised by Orthodox and Conservative rabbis. He has a Black Israelite ordination. this might energize the Hagee flocks.
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#1. To: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt (#0)
Reminds me of the scene from that Mel Brooks comedy spoof of Star Wars - when the Darth Vader guy tells the Luke Skywalker guy something like I am your first cousin once removed - and Luke Skywalker asks 'what does that make us'? Darth Vader responded - ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
it was actually pith helmet declaring he was Lone Starr's "father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate", which he sums up as making them "absolutely nothing." just so you know :-)
Was it pith hemet or dark helmet? or black helmet? Freaking funny whatever he was called! I am glad you got the joke which I mangled.
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#4. To: Destro (#1)
when the Darth Vader guy tells the Luke Skywalker guy something like I am your first cousin once removed - and Luke Skywalker asks 'what does that make us'? Darth Vader responded - ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
#7. To: freepatriot32 (#4)
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