No, political leader Mohandas Gandhi was not a Jew. He was a Hindu.
A new book described in a review in the WSJ (Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi And His Struggle With India, by Joseph Lelyveld) reports that Gandhi had a longtime lover who was a Jew and a Zionist.
WSJ: Among the Hagiographers
Early on Gandhi was dubbed a ‘mortal demi-god’—and he has been regarded that way ever since.
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