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Is Rachel Maddow Jewish?

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No She is not Jewish.
Her Mother is from Canada and is of Irish decent, and her Father of Russian descent. Rachel Maddow was raised as a Catholic.

On the January 28, 2010 episode of The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, Maddow said she was "distantly" Jewish during an interview with Tracey Ullman.

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