Yes, Julius Genachowski is a Jew.Barack Obama named Genachowski as Head of the Federal Communications Commission.
Jewkey and several news reports confirm that, "Mr. Genachowski, attended yeshiva through high school and studied in yeshiva in Israel before going to Columbia... His parents are immigrants who survived the Holocaust."
He is the cousin of Rabbi Menachem Genack (we assume shortened from Genachowski), rabbinic administrator and CEO of O.U. Kosher, an Orthodox rabbi with liberal political views.
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I used to dorm with a Genack (nephew of R. Menachem Genack). I can confirm that Genachowski is a shortened version of Genack.
Rabbi Menachem Genack, the chief executive officer of the OU's kashrut division,indeed wrote that Julius Genachowski is his cousin.
Rabbi Genack wrote a pro-Obama OP-Ed piece in the Jewish Press on November 19, 2008 where he mentions that his cousin Julius Genachowski was on Obama's transition team.
Here is the link to that article:
http://www.thejewishpress.com/pageroute.do/37129
Here is the pull-out about thec relationship between Obama and Genachowski:
"Obama and Julius bonded in part because both were outsiders - one a former yeshiva boy and son of immigrants, the other an African American with international roots.
Julius tells me Obama has always been able to relate to the Jewish experience because of his own background as well as the African-American experience of slavery and discrimination. Julius knows that part of Obama's agenda is to heal the breach between Jews and blacks and to restore the close ties that existed during the civil rights movement."
Lenny Davidman, Ph.D.
New York City
I just met a fellow at minchah who says he used to baby sit for Julius in Great Neck.
Are there two groups of Genack, then? My family's name came from the French...
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