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Santos also conceded that he’d embellished his family’s Jewish history, having previously claimed his mother was Jewish and his maternal grandparents escaped the Holocaust during World War II. The congressman-elect conversely told the New York Post that he is “clearly Catholic” and that his grandmother had told stories about being Jewish and later converting to Catholicism.
The 34-year-old Long Island Republican has in public comments referred to himself as “half Jewish” and a “Latino Jew.” He told the Post he “never claimed to be Jewish,” but had rather asserted he was “Jew-ish.”
“In public comments and to us personally he previously claimed to be Jewish,” RJC said in its statement Tuesday. “He has begun his tenure in Congress on a very wrong note. He will not be welcome at any future RJC event.”
Santos was elected in November to represent New York’s 3rd Congressional District, home to a large Jewish population, and told the New York Post that the recent controversy wouldn’t deter him from serving his two-year term in Congress.
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