In the Sunday Atlanta Journal was this little tidbit, that I was totally unaware of:
 
  John Kerry's paternal grandfather was born a Czech Jew named Fritz Kohn ( that's from the Cohen or Levitical, priestly tribe, folks!) who changed his name to Frederick Kerry to escape anti-Semitism.
    According to a story passed down in his family, Kohn and his siblings randomly dropped a pencil on a map of Europe, and it landed on County Kerry, Ireland, so he adopted that name. Kohn and his wife Ida Lowe, who was born Jewish in Budapest, changed their name to Kerry, were baptized Catholics in 1902, and immigrated to the US in 1905.
    John Kerry's father, Richard, was Catholic, and his mother, Rosemary Forbes Kerry, was Epicopalian. The couple brought up their four children --- Peggy, John, Diana, and Cameron --- as Catholics.