As they say in Yiddish, "Zol nichst vissen frum schlechts" -
you shouldn't know from such bad things.)
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FIRST LADY'S JEWISH BOMBSHELL
By ROBERT HARDT Jr.,
DEBORAH ORIN and
MAGGIE HABERMAN
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First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton - New York's likely Democratic
candidate for U.S. Senate - has some Jewish roots, it was revealed
yesterday.
News of Clinton's Jewish relatives - her step-grandfather and her
mother's
half-sister - sent shock waves through political circles in New York,
where the
first lady is mulling a run for outgoing Sen. Daniel Patrick
Moynihan's seat,
and where a large number of voters are Jewish.
Clinton's grandmother Della Murray Howell married Max Rosenberg,
a Russian-born Jew, in 1933, The Forward weekly newspaper reported
yesterday. He was her second husband.
The couple had a daughter, Adeline, who was Clinton's half-aunt.
She died last year.
It came as a surprise to many, since Clinton - a Methodist who was
born in Chicago and spent several years in the South - has never
publicly mentioned having Jewish kin.
Some suggested that word is coming out now to pander to crucial
Jewish swing voters, who have voted for her potential Republican
rival,
Mayor Giuliani, in the past. Clinton was in the Buffalo area on the
latest
leg of her upstate "listening tour" yesterday, as she continues to
ponder her Senate run.
Clinton's spokesman, Howard Wolfson, said the first lady did not know
Rosenberg, who died in Los Angeles in 1984, "in a religious context."
"But she does have very fond memories of him and is very proud of
her family," Wolfson said, adding that she spent a lot of time with
him
when she was a child.
"I don't think it's anything that ought to be politicized," Wolfson
added.
He denied that anyone in the Clinton camp leaked the story, saying her
Jewish support is already strong and she'll do well "because of her
outstanding record."
Forward reporter Seth Gitell, who wrote the story, also insisted the
story came from a tipster, not from Clinton's team.
Giuliani refused to comment on whether the report was meant to draw
Jewish support, saying he had "no idea."
But City Hall insiders were outraged.
"This is pandering to the nth degree," said one insider. "What's next?
Hillary in front of Zabar's with a bagel and a shmeer?"
Adeline Rosenberg's stepson, David Friedman, told The Post Clinton
was always close with his stepmother - who attended the president's
1993 inauguration.
Asked about why the report came out now, Friedman replied:
"I would have no way of answering that.
"As far as I'm concerned, she's family by marriage, and she has my
support," said Friedman, vice president of the Anaheim,
Calif.-based software company Verisurf.
White House spokesman Joe Lockhart said he wasn't sure if the
president knew about his wife's relatives, and said he would check
with Clinton "if he thinks its appropriate to answer it."
Mrs. Clinton has been involved with Jewish causes for years.
Some political analysts, as well as Clinton watchers, suggested it was
kept quiet because Jewish candidates tend not to fare as well
nationally.
Political columnist Dick Morris, a former Clinton adviser, said in the
24 years he's known the first couple, the Jewish-kin issue never came
up.
"The idea of trotting it out now is so transparent, I don't think it
could
possibly work," said Morris.
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BC Radio says that next week's Jewish Forward newspaper (the one
that broke the Hillary Jewish connection story) will have more. It
seems
that Hillary has a cousin or "uncle" Herschel who lived on a Labor
Socialist
kibbutz on the Jordanian border who was killed in battle in an olive
grove.
There is a brand or type of olives in Israel named after him, Herschel
Olives.
Hillary will visit his grave (I'm sure this has nothing to do with the
NY election)
in Israel.
This is more farce...
Could this explain why Clintyon likes to screw zhid females, a la
Lewinsky???
How dirty can be the politic urina, I bet, if predominant woters are KKK she
will have roots there too!!!!She figured out she can't win the senat seet,
because every 8 voter is a Jew.The same was wit the Jana Maria
Korbel(Albricht) according the Blythe(Clinton) she was so smart in age 8 she
was meeting international gests with flowers, but she don't know her father
was a Jew(Jozef Korbel) she has birth certificate where was written mother
Christian father Jew. Different circumstances, different religions.If
Albricht was in Catholic school in Switzerland during the WWII she was
catholic, if she was nominated to be a Secretary of the State she is a
Jew.Now second one is the Hillary, for the power she will be enything, least
she will win.They are all screw ups and crooks!!!!!