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A fact from Baruch Korff appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 July 2016 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that "Nixon's Rabbi", Baruch Korff, was part of an unbroken line of rabbis going back 73 generations?

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"plot to bomb London in protest"

-sounds mildly understated... revisionist POV pushers in action...

"part of an unbroken line of rabbis that went back 73 generations."

But the references cited for this state this line to have gone back to the 11th century. Impressive either way, and deserving of further detail, but they can't both be right. 73 generations in 900 years would assume an average generation as 12 years 4 months. 2A02:C7D:2E31:400:51D5:4887:B6B9:3FA8 (talk) 18:35, 11 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

They are two different references - his line went back through 73 generations of rabbis, through Rashi in the 11th Century and also beyond that to King David. No contradiciton. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.139.150.102 (talk) 09:45, 12 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

That doesn't make any sense. The Jweekly article provides that Korff comes from an unbroken line of rabbis going back to Rashi in the 11th century. That is impressive, and plausible. The Jewish Chronicle article, though, claims that Korff "was ordained a rabbi in 1934 - thus becoming the 73rd generation in an unbroken line of rabbis dating back to the 11th century." That is mathematically untenable, since an unbroken line going back 73 generations would take us to the time of the Punic Wars, not the 11th century; given that no one from our time has been able to establish generation-by-generation descent going back to Classical Antiquity (see Descent from antiquity), it simply cannot be the case that Korff has recorded ancestry going back 73 generations. The author of the Jewish Chronicle article must have been mistaken with regard to that particular fact. Is that the only source of the "73 generations" claim? And couldn't it be the case that the author transposed two digits and that it was 37 generations (which would yield an average age per generation of 24 years, which is on the young side but plausible)?

AuH2ORepublican (talk) 15:47, 13 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Baruch as terrorist

There are users on this site who fail to acknowledge that Baruch was a member of a terrorist organization and had led a group in 1947 in a bombing attempt which was thwarted and was promptly arrested for. This for anyone still confused is the dictionary definition of terrorism. Any further reversion to my edits will be reported as vandalism.

Thank you

n. The use of violence or the threat of violence, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political goals. n. Resort to terrorizing methods as a means of coercion, or the state of fear and submission produced by the prevalence of such methods. n. The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation. Somali Strawhat (talk) 18:04, 28 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You have been told that you need to provide citations to this, which you have not done so. This is why you have been reverted. Please stop edit warring. BFDIBebble (talk) 18:21, 28 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The plot to bomb London in 1947 is currently listed under his contributions. If you had read the page before proceeding to engage in an edit war without understanding you would have known that. I plan on restructuring the page to separate the 1947 bombing plot from his contributions under a section labelled 1947 London Bombing Plot. The addition will include what already was in the contributions section but will also add the newspaper image from 1947 that shows in no unclear terms that he was arrested for the plot in question.

Thank you Somali Strawhat (talk) 18:26, 28 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

So is a plot to bomb London going to be considered a contribution and not an act of terrorism? Trying to achieve this so called consesus here.

Any dissent? Somali Strawhat (talk) 02:42, 30 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. I was pretty sure that the plot was to bomb London only with LEAFLETS, not actual bombs, and that's why the French finally released him. There was no connection at all with any real bombs. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:3005:7FE:A000:2C1D:1149:2527:A587 (talk) 11:42, 30 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]