That insight-that culture and identity are not DNA-is one that Dani Shapiro, author of the recently published Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love, doesn’t get. In fact, she wisely and immediately retreated from any notion that she believes that she is Jewish, tweeting, “Before anyone jumps on me-yes, culture isn’t DNA.” But following Senator Elizabeth Warren’s unfortunate political mishap of claiming Native American ancestry with a genetic test, Representative Ocasio-Cortez is unlikely to make the same mistake. It is unclear what she thought he sensed. Ocasio-Cortez pointed to someone in the audience and said, “He’s like: ‘I told you! I knew it! I sensed it!’” Last Hanukkah, Representative-Elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a young woman of Puerto Rican descent, raised in the Church and a self-identified Catholic, went to a synagogue in Queens where she told the congregants, “A very, very long time ago…my family consisted of Sephardic Jews.” The congregants were delighted that their popular new representative was making common bond with them.
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