The following is from Ynet:
While US President Barack Obama was busy orchestrating the assassination of terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden, his half brother Mark Ndesandjo reconnected with his Jewish roots on his first trip to Israel.
Ndesandjo, 45, was born to Barack Obama Senior’s third wife, a Jewish American kindergarten teacher and the daughter of Lithuanian immigrants.
Ndesandjo’s trip to the Holy Land was kept a secret for fear that he would fall victim to hostile attempts to avenge the US-perpetrated assassination of bin Laden.
One of the main purposes of Ndesandjo’s visit was to meet with the Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel, Yona Metzger, to receive a blessing and a letter for his mother, Ruth Nidesand.
During Ndesandjo’s stay he visited the Kosel and other Jewish heritage sites in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. According to the Chief Rabbinate personnel, Ndesandjo said that he was very impressed with the people, the restaurants and the entertainment, but refused to specify which sites he visited for security reasons.
Metzger’s office employees were surprised to receive the unexpected guest, who stepped out of the elevator wearing a bandana topped with a skull cap.
“He looked so similar to his brother that even if he didn’t say anything I would have recognized him,” Metzger said.
“He said that his mother often reminds him to be proud of his Judaism,” the rabbi added. “He seemed like a very sensitive Jew whose heart is invested in helping his fellow man.”
According to Metzger, Ndesandjo has met with Obama a few times since the latter took office, and they are in regular telephone contact.
Before concluding their meeting, Metzger said that he asked Ndesandjo to do “a noble favor for the Jewish people” – to try to convince Obama to release Jonathan Pollard, who has been serving a life sentence in the US since he was convicted of spying for Israel in 1986.
Ndesandjo agreed, and asked Metzger to write a letter of encouragement to his mother, who lives in Kenya and works as a kindergarten teacher.
(Source: Ynet)
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7 Responses
omg that is very interesting
Obama has a Jewish half brother!? Gevalt geshrigen!!!!
If his mother is a jew, and his brother is a jew how can he deny that he is a jew?
it depends do they share the same mother
to #3 and #4
no obama is not jewish his mother was a christian she died a few years ago from cancer, this brother is his half brother from his father
How is it that this information has eluded the media the past few years? I for one have never heard about this Jewish Achobama.
No. 6: I have known about the president’s Jewish half-brother for over a year. There was a story about him in the New York Times in November 2009, which reported that he is an author and lives in China. The story has not “eluded” anything or anybody.