The following excerpt is from the August 1, 2018 Jerusalem Post:
U.S. Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan discovered something that shocked him when he participated in the PBS series “Finding Your Roots”: his 3% Ashkenazi Jewish heritage.
The news “about knocked his head off, to tell you the truth,” show host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. said during a panel about the show at a Television Critics Association event on Tuesday, according to Deadline.
The fifth season of the show, which explores the ancestry of prominent individuals, is set to return to PBS in January. Ryan is slated to take part in an episode titled Roots in Politics, alongside fellow Republican, Sen. Marco Rubio and Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.
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