Though his surname is typically Jewish, Cohen only has distant Jewish ancestry. “My family’s not Jewish,” he said in an interview on his official website, “but a few generations back they used to be. I think it was my great grandfather that married a non-Jewish girl and broke with tradition.”
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ReplyDeleteDJ, this may be a generalization but with a name like Cohen that's highly unlikely.
ReplyDeleteHere here. I'll second that, but I think I need some first-hand sampling to make sure.
ReplyDeleteFrom Wikipedia:
ReplyDeleteThough his surname is typically Jewish, Cohen only has distant Jewish ancestry. “My family’s not Jewish,” he said in an interview on his official website, “but a few generations back they used to be. I think it was my great grandfather that married a non-Jewish girl and broke with tradition.”