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30 Mar 2009, 3:02 pm

I wonder if anyone could please find out for me if Heather Kuzmich is Jewish.



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30 Mar 2009, 3:11 pm

"Kuzmich" sounds like its either serb, croat, or slovene. Somehow I doubt it but its possible.



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30 Mar 2009, 3:36 pm

Looks like it is Russian name. namesakes include a monk canonised by the Russian Orthodox church. No reference to Jewish.



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30 Mar 2009, 3:42 pm

0_equals_true wrote:
Looks like it is Russian name. namesakes include a monk canonised by the Russian Orthodox church. No reference to Jewish.


Um, I looked it up and I can tell you it is Not a Russian surname. Russian surnames have the following endings:

-ov

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-in

-sky

-vitch(meaning son(of))


But surnames with the -"ich" ending are south slavic.



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30 Mar 2009, 4:10 pm

Laconvivencia wrote:
I wonder if anyone could please find out for me if Heather Kuzmich is Jewish.


Who is Heather Kuzmich?

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30 Mar 2009, 4:21 pm

It looks to be Ukrainian apparently. Other southern Slavic states might spell it something like Kuzmič/Küzmič instead.



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30 Mar 2009, 5:38 pm

According to Wikipedia, she's a Seventh-Day Adventist.


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30 Mar 2009, 7:28 pm

Laconvivencia wrote:
I wonder if anyone could please find out for me if Heather Kuzmich is Jewish.


I found a picture of her. She is extremely good looking and appears to be of Eastern European descent. She is U.S. born but I suspect several of her grand parents or great grand parents came from Eastern Europe.

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30 Mar 2009, 9:23 pm

I read from wikipedia that she has Asperger's, is a model and has german ancestry. :o It was the french version of wiki <.< And huh....the english version said she was studying video game design o.O ... And that's all that was of any particular interest to me. =/



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31 Mar 2009, 2:42 am

Actually she is a cyborg created in an Israeli laboratory out of seventeen toothbrushes with medium bristles, a spaghetti spoon, twelve bottles of rather strong relish, and a dead duck billed platypus (which was very difficult to obtain). Whether or not she is Jewish is under severe debate by the High Rabbi and a bunch of low rabbis since she officially has no mother and cannot qualify under the usual standards. It is reasonably sure she is not circumcised.



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31 Mar 2009, 3:03 am

I wouldn't know if Heather is Jewish, but not all Jews have Jewish-sounding names.



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31 Mar 2009, 3:10 am

Tim_Tex wrote:
I wouldn't know if Heather is Jewish, but not all Jews have Jewish-sounding names.


Probably a descendant of the lost tribe named Murphy that emigrated to a small island in the Atlantic.



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31 Mar 2009, 3:33 am

Why would you want to know is she's Jewish or not? What difference would it make?


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31 Mar 2009, 4:12 am

I'm confused.

Are Jews much of a race of people these days?

Seems so confusing with all the conversions. There are some Jews who have changed their names in the past to become "Americans" or Christians. Then there's other religous sects of people like Christians who become Jews. And then there's kids brought up by both opposing heritages and then I guess it would depend on the gender of the spouse for that last name to carry on. Then again, there's a new trend where both couples don't have to change their last names. Very confusing but like Henriksson said what difference does it make? There are many famous Jews.

There's rumors that Einstein was an aspie btw.


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31 Mar 2009, 4:24 am

MissConstrue wrote:
I'm confused.

Are Jews much of a race of people these days?

Seems so confusing with all the conversions. There are some Jews who have changed their names in the past to become "Americans" or Christians. Then there's other religous sects of people like Christians who become Jews. And then there's kids brought up by both opposing heritages and then I guess it would depend on the gender of the spouse for that last name to carry on. Then again, there's a new trend where both couples don't have to change their last names. Very confusing but like Henriksson said what difference does it make? There are many famous Jews.

There's rumors that Einstein was an aspie btw.


There are also rumors that Einstein was a Jew. There are many Jews that were not famous.



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31 Mar 2009, 4:40 am

Yeah I know and probably muslims and christians as well... :P

I've often wondered what category of people was the least famous... :?


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