Did you know Elvis was Jewish?

Why is it that every time I read about someone very famous, they turn out to be Jewish?

Must be coincidence.

It's a gas station, restaurant and tourist shop with a 15-foot-high Elvis outside. An exit sign on the highway simply says "Elvis."

It opened in 1974, and that's where Elvis fans in Israel go to pay their respects on the anniversary of Elvis' death. You can get the "Elvis burger" there, which features a special sauce Elvis liked, but the owner says the peanut butter and fried banana sandwich never caught on.

Why would people in Israel love Elvis so much? It may be partly due to reports that Elvis' maternal great-great-grandmother was Jewish. Because religious law says Judaism is passed down from the mother, Elvis could be considered Jewish even though he was raised Christian.

I am truly confused.

How can Judaism be a culture, a race, and a religion all at once???

What is up with that?

Is being "Jewish" different and distinct from being "a Jew"???

Can you or can you not convert to Judaism?

If so, then why all this talk about being born into it?

Posted in Submitted by qrswave on Sat, 2007-08-18 09:41.

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you article link reads " It may be partly due to reports that Elvis' maternal great-great-grandmother was Jewish. " I don't mean to be nit-picky... but it might also be my bipolar dysalexic shock syndrome ( with dual 4 bbl carbs and a racing stripe kicking in again ). Peace

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Jesse | Sat, 2007-08-18 11:04

A few years back I was lodged at this hotel/casino for a large entertainment job. It is off the *main* Vegas strip and I found out it was Elvis's only and favorite hotel there. He had a permanent suite that was pretty much the entire top floor back in his day.

A couple of years later I'm watching one of those Food-Network shows and viola (that's French) they feature the Las Vegas Hilton kitchen and the head chef. This is when I learned about the peanut butter, banana and bacon sandwich that was pretty much the only meal he would order while staying there.

I guess it would have to have been *kosher* (Holy God, that word makes me want to puke) bacon, but it was his favorite. Served on buttered freshly baked french bread, no less. I don't even want to contemplate that guy's cholesterol count. He was probably bleeding candle wax by this point.

It does not surprise me at all to find out he has Jewish roots. Hell, even John Kerry (yes, that one) had to feign surprise when he was outed as being Jewish in 2004(ish).

But it is good that you're getting the information out there. People need to be exposed to the pattern so they can recognize it when they see it.

Thank you for a very good site.
(and a Thank you to all contributors as well)

~"This one's for Momma... thank you..."

Cranston | Sat, 2007-08-18 11:21

according to the diagram, it's his great grandmother.

Maybe the article is wrong.

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qrswave | Sat, 2007-08-18 11:21

"How can Judaism be a culture, a race, and a religion all at once?"

This is the whole reason for creating the word "jew". It is probably fewer than 150 yrs old. It is not listed in the first English dictionary which was printed about 200 yrs ago. The zionists knew well that the very first question people will ask, when they hear about creating Israel, is WHAT ON EARTH DO THESE MONGURKS HAVE TO DO WITH PALESTINE? Because in Judaism individuals don't decide to become Judaic, god does, there is no proselyzition and conversion, and therefore all converted mongurks are not considered Judaic. They had to change this notion. So they created the word Jew, to mean whoever practices judaism is judaic (jew). They also backed it up with "anti-semitism" to create the notion of a "race", an "ethnicity", and therefore a "nation". AND therefore, what a nation asks for, a country, is logical. So as long as we use the word "jew" we cannot rid ourselves of the warp it brings to ANY arguments we are in. Another drawback is that saying too much of jujujuju.... results in being told at the end of the day, .....so you don't like them because of their religion right? This sends you to the end of the line. This is why following Christopher Jon Bjerknes in fighting these folks is a deadend road. He makes a criminal war, a religious war.

" Is being "Jewish" different and distinct from being "a Jew"??? "

Yes....to judaics "jew" sounds like "niger". You just cannot mean well if you say just jew. Example: Did you know Elvis was a jew? (see how bad it sounds?) I have hear that this actually exists in some other languages too.

Speaking of languages, let me ask this: have you noticed how scarce hebrow words are in almost any languages? With the spread of Judaics around the world for at least last 2800 yrs, I feel there are more Russian words in Hindi than hebrew in English!
(This is one of the reasons I consider that such a thing as "judaic culture" does not exist. Its an ideology not a culture.)

Kats | Sat, 2007-08-18 11:57

"Because in Judaism individuals don't decide to become Judaic, god does, there is no proselyzition and conversion, and therefore all converted mongurks are not considered Judaic."

-- conversion is not encouraged but it is and always has been permitted. It is forbidden in jewish law to make remarks about a convert's non jewish origin once he has converted.

RowanBerkeley | Sat, 2007-08-18 12:10

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A rabbi's granddaughter writes on a stormy life, including sex on the synagogue floor.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/894339.html

RowanBerkeley | Sat, 2007-08-18 17:41

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Jesse | Sat, 2007-08-18 22:08

There is something curious about these two points you made: That the conversion is not encouraged but permitted. Nonmongurk judaic population is about one million today, which does not seem to have increased beyond average population growth over a few millenia. That mentioning the nonjudaic origin of the converts is not allowed, but develop the most advanced and articulated genealogical record keeping system that any other community I know of. I am not sure how the two parts of each point go together.

Some how it reminds me of these two examples:

1- Larry King once on his show claimed that according to Judaic law, charity must be given anonymously.

2- Holocaust believers (in response to researchers questioning the "physical" possibility of it) claim that holocaust was "physically possible" because it happened.

What is common in these two lines of argument is that the "proof" for a "claim" is built into the claim itself. In other words, you cannot examine the proof without believing the claim!

Kats | Sun, 2007-08-19 08:24

so what you are saying is that the non ashkenazi - the mizrachi to use the current term - are steady at about a million.

the whole situation with these people is full of subliminal racism, but officially everybody is just plain jews.

RowanBerkeley | Sun, 2007-08-19 09:48

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