Friday, September 25, 2020

First woman and first Jew


Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the first woman and the first Jew to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol.

What?  Are you kidding me?  Here I am thinking of my unacknowledged privilege and find that no women nor Jews have had that honor.  How could we be so overlooked?  And not even know it.  There have been plenty of Jews in prominent positions,  I am shocked.

Shown is her personal trainer that she worked with for 21 years.  Right after, he will lower himself and do three perfect pushups in her honor.

My name, given by my parents, is Sandra Jean Ginsburgh.  Were we related?  Ginsburg would be her married name so that would mean we would be related to her husband Arnie.  The spelling is different but, in the work that I have done on that side, people often changed the spelling of their name.  More interesting is how that extra 'h' got there in the first place.  I don't have too much work done on that side but there were definitely branches that spelled it Ginsburg.  So, I dunno, maybe.




 




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