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"Our family can trace our yichus (ancestry) back almost two thousand years to the great Rabbi Akiva," said Moishie Stern to his classmates at recess.
Moishie turned to his friend Shlomo and asked in a sarcastic tone, "So how far back does your family go, Shlomo?"
"I don't know," Shlomo replied. "My father told me that all of our records were lost in the flood."