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I hold bernie sanders is Jewish his parents are probably from Poland and just doesn’t want to admit it because he is embbarest to say it his face looks so jewish
When did he claim not to be Jewish?
Most American Jews born in the mid-20th century, while clearly “off the derekh” (usually already one or two generations removed from Yiddishkeit) were likely to be Jews according to halacha. While intermarriage among non-frum Jews was high in that period, it was still well below 50%. At present, several generations late, given the high rate of intermarriage among non-Orthodox Jews, it isn’t especially likely today that someone with a Jewish name born into an other than Shomer Shabbos family is actually Jewish (remember that having a Jewish father means it likely the mother wasn’t Jewish), so in the future one won’t be assuming that a politican (born in the 21st century) with a Jewish name is actually Jewish (unless the person is Shomer Shabbos).
sefardi guy………..
Maybe his father or grandfather changed it, but he was born Sanders.
Someone descended from a line of Jewish mothers is halachically Jewish. Thus, if the daughter of a daughter of a Jewish woman marries a man whose father’s father’s father was Jewish, and thus has a Jewish name, the children will be Jewish and will have a Jewish name. Of course, there are also names which are sometimes Jewish and sometimes non-Jewish German, such as Weiss. In addition, names were often changed by immigration clerks. I know someone who knew a man named Cohen who was a Yisrael. He came to America with a long Polish name and the clerk asked why he couldn’t have a simple Jewish name like “Cohen”. He did not want o start up so he agreed.
Chabad.org did a whole piece on Bernie Sanders. Look it up.
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