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    Default Elvis knew about his Jewish ancestry and was proud of it.

    According to biographer Elaine Dundy, Elvis’s mother Gladys imparted this pride to Elvis “at a very early age.” Perhaps this was why Gladys waited to give him his first haircut when he was three years old, which is the age Jewish boys traditionally get their upsherin (first haircut ceremony). And when Elvis was a teen, according to Jewish Celebrity Anecdotes, he would listen to the cantorial records of Shlomo Koussevitsky and Moishe Oysher playing through his Orthodox rabbi-neighbor’s window while he was on the street below washing his 1942 Lincoln Zephyr coupe.

    Elvis’s parents, though, advised him not to broadcast the fact he descended from Jews because “people don’t like Jews.” He eventually ignored that advice.

    Elvis started paying tribute to his Jewish heritage, according to the Elvis Presley News website, after his mother died in 1958 when he designed a Star of David on her tombstone.

    Even more publically, Elvis wore a "Chai" necklace both on and offstage throughout 1977 (the last year of his life).
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    Elvis Presley chose to give privately a tremendous sum of money to one of the premier Orthodox Jewish yeshivos (academies for the study of Talmud) in the US. He was a spiritual person that understood the opportunity of supporting studying the Talmud as it's been done throughout the generations.
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    My colleague is of Spanish sephardic Jewish ancestry. I told him he should attempt to appply for Spanish cifizenship. In recent years the Spanish government has been trying to make amends for the persecution and expulsion of Sephardic Jews in the 15th century by offering citizenship to anyone who can credibly claim a Sephardic ancestry. As Trump turns America into a pariah nation I can see multiple benefits traveling on a Spanish passport!

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    should anyone care if Elvis was Jewish?.....
    Isaiah 6:5
    “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by PostmodernProphet View Post
    should anyone care if Elvis was Jewish?.....
    Only fake Jewish trolls on internet forums.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    My colleague is of Spanish sephardic Jewish ancestry. I told him he should attempt to appply for Spanish cifizenship. In recent years the Spanish government has been trying to make amends for the persecution and expulsion of Sephardic Jews in the 15th century by offering citizenship to anyone who can credibly claim a Sephardic ancestry. As Trump turns America into a pariah nation I can see multiple benefits traveling on a Spanish passport!
    Yes, very good idea. I think you and your ilk should flee the US.
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    Quote Originally Posted by countryboy View Post
    Yes, very good idea. I think you and your ilk should flee the US.
    My colleague of Sephardic decent is conservative and Republican.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    My colleague of Sephardic decent is conservative and Republican.
    Then why would he entertain such a ridiculous idea? Or did he laugh at you?
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    Quote Originally Posted by countryboy View Post
    Then why would he entertain such a ridiculous idea? Or did he laugh at you?
    No, he thought it might be cool to honor his Sephardic roots and at least look into the question of dual citizenship, if possible.

    Maybe this is a foreign concept in Trump land, but having dual citizenship is not that uncommon. I have family and friends who are dual citizens. Not sure if this Spanish Sephardic deal is possible or not.

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    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    Elvis Presley chose to give privately a tremendous sum of money to one of the premier Orthodox Jewish yeshivos (academies for the study of Talmud) in the US. He was a spiritual person that understood the opportunity of supporting studying the Talmud as it's been done throughout the generations.
    Good thing Black Hebrew Israelite's like yourself did not know that. They would have killed him also, being the cowards and fake Jews they are.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PostmodernProphet View Post
    should anyone care if Elvis was Jewish?.....
    Gunno is happy because he is a dead white guy.

    I wonder if there were any Jewish songs in all those Elvis gospel albums.

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    yes....
    Isaiah 6:5
    “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sailor View Post
    Good thing Black Hebrew Israelite's like yourself did not know that. They would have killed him also, being the cowards and fake Jews they are.
    Popeye cums out of the closet,as a racist,and a
    Antisemitic !
    Tie Your 'roo down Mate

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    Quote Originally Posted by Miss Margot Frank View Post
    Popeye cums out of the closet,as a racist,and a
    Antisemitic !
    Other way around asshole. Then again, it is you. Dumb as fuck.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sailor View Post
    Other way around asshole. Then again, it is you. Dumb as fuck.
    So Popeye you're claiming a Jew is an antisemite?
    Tie Your 'roo down Mate

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