article_snippet: Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich was Jewish.
article_snippet: Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich was Christian and attended church, but had some Jewish ancestry.
article_snippet: last month, Schweich told an Associated Press reporter Schweich believed the new chairman of the Missouri Republican Party - John Hancock - told people an Associated Press reporter was Jewish last year.
article_snippet: Schweich said Schweich considered the comments anti-Semitic and was extremely upset by anti-Semitic.
article_snippet: Hancock has denied making anti-Semitic remarks.
article_snippet: Hancock has acknowledged Hancock may have told some people Schweich was Jewish because Hancock mistakenly believed that was true.
article_snippet: The only reason for going around saying that someone is Jewish is to make political profit from religious bigotry.'
highlights_snippet: Auditor was Christian and attended church, but had some Jewish ancestry .
  