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A Quizbook of Jewish Trivia Facts & Fun
A Quizbook of Jewish Trivia Facts & Fun
A. That Presley was actually Jewish, thus making him ineligible to act as a Shabbos goy. It turns out that Elvis was descended from a Jewish great-great grandmother, whose daughter and subsequent female descendants, including Elvis’s mother, were all halakhically Jewish, though practicing Christians.
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NOTE: Elvis’s Jewish background was confirmed when the footstone he designed for his mother’s grave was located at Graceland, as can be seen in this photograph.
Gladys Love Presley 12.21.19 by Darrin Lee Memmer is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
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