Is Reality Winner Jewish?
Reality Winner – the former NSA contractor who was arrested, tried, found guilty and sentenced to five years and three months in prison in association with the leak of an intelligence report on Russian Election Hacking from the NSA – it turns out is jewish.
I’ve certainly seen it bandied about that she might be and ‘Winner’ is a surname that has been used by jews in the Anglophone world (being a variant of the common Ashkenazi jewish surname ‘Wiener’). (1) However we have further evidence that Reality Winner is jewish.
This is found in the side note that Winner is a vegan; who also follows a strict kosher diet (2) and follows ‘Messianic Judaism’ (3) which is a branch of Judaism that identifies Jesus of Nazareth as the long-awaited jewish Messiah (and as such many jews claim it is an ‘Evangelical Christian’ denomination) and is in many ways a modern recreation of the Ebionite early Jewish Christian sect.
Further jews such as Tina Satter and Stephen Applebaum in ‘The Jewish Chronicle’ also seem to believe that Winner is in fact a jewish woman. (4)
Thus it seems pretty conclusive that Reality Winner is a jewess but also one who believes in Jesus Christ.
References
(1) https://discover.23andme.com/last-name/Winner; https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=winner
(2) https://couragetoresist.org/podcast-reality-winner-family/; https://www.ascmediarisk.org/takeaways/billie-j-winner-davis-activist-mother/
(3) https://www.ascmediarisk.org/takeaways/billie-j-winner-davis-activist-mother/
(4) https://www.thejc.com/life-and-culture/the-gripping-story-of-reality-winner-as-told-by-its-jewish-director-kpx3wifx