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The secret Jewish history of the JFK assassination: Jack Ruby was once Jacob Rubenstein

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The secret Jewish history of the JFK assassination: Jack Ruby was once Jacob Rubenstein

Jack Ruby was the sort of Jew who brings a puppy to the rabbi’s house and insists he adopt it. This is not a metaphor. This was Dallas in the early 1960s, and Ruby — born Jacob Leon Rubenstein to ...