INTERVIEW | Is Your Connection to Israel 'More Than Just a Feeling'?

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🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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An ancestry service based in Israel aims to connect people across the globe, helping them explore their family trees and see whether they have any relatives living in the Holy Land today. "People believe that they have a connection to the Holy Land, and I think one of the things we have now through DNA and through family trees is a way to perhaps see whether there's more to that connection than just a feeling," Aaron Godfrey, vice president of Marketing at MyHeritage, told The Daily Signal Podcast in an interview last month. "Perhaps there's a genetic link, perhaps within you, there is some Jewish DNA," Godfrey said. "We have five different strands of Jewish DNA that we're looking at. Perhaps there's relatives that you'll find in your family tree who have moved to Israel. Perhaps there's some record of the family visiting Israel that you never perhaps knew about. And all of this is just a way simply from your own home, finding out whether this connection that you feel in your heart is something more, is something perhaps that actually took place in your story." Godfrey sat down with The Daily Signal at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Orlando last month. Many Israelis spoke at the convention, which prominently featured organizations tying American evangelicals with Jews in the Holy Land. Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Civil Podcast for Wednesday, July 5, I'm Virginia Allen.
0:11.4	Have you ever wondered about your ancestry?
0:14.2	And specifically, have you ever wondered if you might have Israeli ancestry?
0:19.8	There is an ancestry service based in Israel that aims to connect people across the globe,
0:26.2	calling them explore their family trees and see whether they have any relatives living
0:31.3	in the Holy Land.
0:32.6	Aaron Goffrey is the Vice President of Marketing at My Heritage.
0:37.2	The Daily Civil's Tyler O'Neill sat down with Goffrey at the National Religious Broadcasters
0:42.2	Convention in Orlando to discuss how Americans can discover whether they have Israeli heritage.
0:49.6	Stay tuned for their conversation after this.
0:53.0	As conservatives, sometimes it feels like we're constantly on defense against bad ideas.
0:58.1	Bad philosophy, revisionist history, junk science, and device of politics.
1:03.4	But here's something I've come to understand.
1:05.2	When faced with bad ideas, it's not enough to just defend.
1:08.2	If we want to save this country, then it's time to go on offense.
1:13.7	Conservative principles are ideas that work, individual responsibility, strong local communities,
1:19.3	and belief in the American dream.
1:21.2	As a former college professor and current president of the Heritage Foundation, my life's mission
1:25.7	is to learn, educate, and take action.
1:28.7	My podcast, The Kevin Roberts Show, is my opportunity to share that journey with you.
1:33.0	I'll be diving into the critical issues that plague our nation, having deep conversations
1:37.0	with high profile guests, some of whom may surprise you, and I want to ensure freedom
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