Monday, October 17, 2005
Congresswoman has Jewish roots
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Congresswoman has Jewish roots
The influential chairwoman of a congressional subcommittee on the Middle East has Jewish roots.
The mother of Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) was born Jewish and converted to Catholicism when she married, the Forward reported. Ros-Lehtinen’s grandfather, Jacobo Adato Levy, was a leader in Cuba’s Jewish community.
Ros-Lehtinen fled Cuba with her parents in 1960, after the Communist takeover, when she was eight. She is close to Miami’s Jewish community and, as chairwoman of the Middle East subcommittee of the House of Representatives’ International Relations Committee, she has championed a number of measures favored by pro-Israel lobbyists, including the Syria Accountability Act.
She is in the running to succeed Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) as chairman of the International Relations Committee in 2007, should the Republicans retain control of the House.
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