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Baruch Obama: the first Jewish president?

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Could it be that Barack Obama is the first Jewish president? Veteran judge and politician Abner Mikva, suggests so in the Chicago Tribune: “I use the expression yiddishe neshuma to describe him. It means a Jewish soul.” Maybe he was Baruch Obama all the time.

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