Two of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry’s grandparents were Jewish, according to the Boston Globe. Kerry, a Massachusetts senator who is a practicing Catholic, said he has known for 15 years that his paternal grandmother was Jewish, but had unsuccessfully searched for news of his paternal grandfather’s roots.
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