20 Students in One Yeshiva Discover They Are Cousins

Descendants of Rabbi Chaim Ben-Zion Raskin (left) pose for a picture at their Tomchei Temimim yeshiva in Kiryat Gat, Israel.

In a world where large families are not unheard of, it’s not uncommon for a student at a Chabad-Lubavitch run yeshiva to find a cousin or two among his peers. But at the Tomchei Temimim post-high school rabbinical school in Kiryat Gat, Israel, a full 10 percent of the student body and a teacher recently learned they were all related.

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