I
always felt a real kinship to the courage of
European Jews who went to Israel.
- Wesley Clark
 October 12, 2003 [More
inaccurate Intelligence] Clark: I'm no
rabbi's son  GENERAL
Wesley Clark is not descended from a long
line of rabbis, as he had once claimed.
The Democratic candidate said he had been given
bad information before giving a speech at a New
York yeshiva in 1999 claiming that he was the
"eldest son of the eldest son of the eldest son" of
a rabbi. Clark, who repeated the rabbi claim as recently
as January [2003] in an interview with
The
Forward, says he still is proud that he is
descended from Jews on the side of his father, a
cohen, or member of the priestly caste. "I always felt a real kinship to the courage of
European Jews who went to Israel," Clark told The
Associated Press. Clark counts among his closest
advisers Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff, a Navy
chaplain. 
Who'd a thunk it
Presidential
hopeful, General Wesley Clark boasted that he
comes from a long line of rabbis
| and see Forward,
Jan 2003 
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