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George Allen on Judaism and pork chops.

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“I still had a ham sandwich for lunch. And my mother made great pork chops.” — Virginia Sen. George Allen, explaining how news that his grandfather was Jewish is “just an interesting nuance to my background.”

By Tim Grieve

Tim Grieve is a senior writer and the author of Salon's War Room blog.

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