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Actually this entire “family tree” was invented by an extreme anti-Semitic website and has no truth to it whatsoever. Sarah Palin has no Jewish ancestry whatsoever. But there is a delightful irony in the fact that what the anti-Semites invent as a “disgrace,” the Jews embrace with pride! Yay, Sarah! You go, girl!

Based on Jewish tradition that makes one Jewish if born to a mother of Jewish ethnic decent, Sarah Palin is Jewish, though she touts a mask of evangelical christianity.
Sarah Palin’s mother, Sally Sheigam, was of Lithuanian Jewish heritage and so were both of her mother’s parents, Louise Sheigam and Shmuel Sheigam Her father, Chuck Heath, also comes from Jewish blood because his mother, Beatrice Coleman, was of Jewish decent. Further information on Governor Palin’s ancestors can be found in the vital records in the Lithuanian State Historical Archives in Vilnius (http://www.archyvai.lt/archyvai/index.jsp).

The Archives holds birth, marriage, divorce, and death records for the Lithuanian Jewish community from 1851 until 1915 when the Jews were required to leave the country because of World War I. They are in 18th Century Cyrillic script and Yiddish. Many of these records include the mother’s maiden name and town of registration.

Palin’s maternal grandfather, Schmuel Sheigam, was a Lithuanian Jew, born in 1912 in Vilkaviskis, Lithuania, The Sheigams’ grandmother was a Jewess named Gower. At the Ellis Island Immigration Center, the name was entered as Sheeran, instead of Sheigam, a standard practice when immigration officers were unable to understand the pronunciation of non-English speaking immigrants. They are buried in the Jewish cemetery at Budezeriai.

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This is baseless hostility. You might not agree with her political views but this degree of animosity is not warranted by anything she’s actually said or done.

Most people — even liberals who plan to vote for Obama – find Sarah Palin refreshing and likeable. She had an 80% approval rating as governor of Alaska.

And you have to admire her for keeping her baby when the majority of Downie babies these days are killed before they ever see the light of day. If for that alone, she deserves praise. Maybe she will be a role model for women facing such a choice, to show them that abortion is not the only option for a baby who is less than “perfect.”

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Actually this entire “family tree” was invented by an extreme anti-Semitic website and has no truth to it whatsoever. But there is a delightful irony in the fact that what the anti-Semites invent as a “disgrace,” the Jews embrace with pride! Yay, Sarah! You go, girl!