Dara Torres, a Yidisheh Mameh
After being the bearer of bad news and breaking the hearts of Jewish girls across the world by announcing that Michael Phelps is not a Yid, I bring good tidings. Dara Torres, female Olympic Swimmer, is Jewish. And, she has a child, which makes her a certified Yiddishe Mameh.
According to this NY Times article: her father was Jewish, and Dara converted before marrying Itzhak Shasha, an Israeli surgeon.
This is definitely good for the Jews in some way. In fact, if I had to choose between the two, I’d pick Torres over Phelps.
Here’s one reason why:
A possible captions for this photo:
“The solution to Intermarriage”
Btw, did you know that Marilyn Monroe also converted to Judaism?
Here’s the conversion document from The Smoking Gun:
