Riddle me this

Why in the world would Allen's mom hide his Jewish heritage from him? And why does this story fail the smell test? You mean you tell your kids their Pop-pop was in a Nazi concentration camp and you don't even tell them why? For all of Allen's talk about "heritage," he apparently had no curiosity about his own. Or did he?

Allen's Mother Revealed Jewish Heritage to Him Last Month - washingtonpost.com

RICHMOND, Sept. 20 -- Henrietta "Etty" Allen said Wednesday that she concealed her upbringing as a Jew in North Africa from her children, including Sen. George Allen (R-Va.), until a conversation across the dining room table in late August.

She said Allen asked her directly about his Jewish heritage when he was in Los Angeles for a fundraiser. "We sat across the table and he said, 'Mom, there's a rumor that Pop-pop and Mom-mom were Jewish and so were you,' " she recalled, a day after Allen issued a statement acknowledging and embracing his Jewish roots as he campaigns for a second term in the U.S. Senate.

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