A Democratic Socialist candidate for New York Senate faces questions after reports emerged that she falsified her biography, including claims about being an immigrant and Jewish, while her previous work shows she was a Christian conservative advocate. Her father, she said, was Jewish but the family had little contact with the American Jewish community after they arrived to the country. She claimed Jewish blood through her father, saying his Jewish ancestors were expelled to Latin America from medieval Spain. “There was nobody in our immediate family who was Jewish … my father was not Jewish, we were not raised Jewish,” the brother said. 'There was nobody in our immediate family who was Jewish … my father was not Jewish, we were not raised Jewish.'

Source: Fox News August 27, 2018 14:37 UTC