Hey, it's Buck Sexton and you're listening to the Carol Markowicz show on the Clay Travis and

Buck Sexton Podcast Network. Hi and welcome back to the Carol Markowicz show. This is not going to

be a political show. It was important to me that this show be on bigger topics and not just

news of the day. But the news right now is extremely personal to me and so I have to say something

about it. On Saturday morning, Israel was attacked. I'm sure you've seen the horrifying videos

and stories. I'm not going to go over any of that. I've barely slept since Saturday. The images

they really stay on my mind. We're just getting to know each other on this podcast so I wanted to

tell you a little bit more about myself. I mentioned last episode that I was born in the Soviet

Union. I'm Jewish and that's actually how my family was able to get out. I won't go into

the whole history but I do enjoy noting that my family owes their freedom to President Gerald

Ford. He negotiated for Jews to be let out of the Soviet Union because we were being persecuted

for our religion. We couldn't hold various jobs, live in certain places and so on.

I feel like people sometimes don't understand that Judaism is a religion, yes, but we are also a

people. That's why I can take a DNA test and find out that I'm Jewish, but you can't

similarly take a DNA test for other faiths and find out that you're Catholic or Muslim or something.

So in the Soviet Union, we were Jews as our nationality. That's what it said on our papers.

It wasn't like you could convert out of it. Some of you might know Jews from the Soviet Union

who live in America and refer to themselves as Russian, maybe not recently, but then you come

to find out they were born in Ukraine or Belarus or elsewhere, but that's because we were never

Russian or Ukrainian or Belarusian. We were just Jews. My family moved to Brooklyn, New York when

I was a small child and despite the fact that my parents were both atheists because, again, Soviet,

I went to an Orthodox Jewish school for the first eight years of my life.

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