Orly Taitz
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Orly Taitz in 2008
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| Born |
August 30, 1960 Kishinev, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union (now Chișinău, Moldova) |
| Residence | Laguna Niguel, California, U.S. |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater |
Hebrew University Taft Law School |
| Occupation | Dentist, lawyer |
| Known for | Filing lawsuits challenging Barack Obama's eligibility to serve as President of the United States |
| Political party | No party preference |
| Spouse(s) | Yosef Taitz |
| Children | 3 sons |
| Website | www.orlytaitzesq.com |
Orly Taitz (born August 30, 1960) is a Moldovan-American political conspiracy theorist. She was a figure in the "birther" movement, a conspiracy theory that challenged whether Barack Obama was a natural-born citizen eligible to serve as President of the United States. She has also run for statewide office in California three times and is a dentist, lawyer, and former real estate agent. She also promotes a number of other allegations both related and unrelated to Obama, and has initiated a number of lawsuits on behalf of the "birther" movement.
Orly Taitz was born to a Jewish family in Chișinău, Moldavian SSR, in the Soviet Union (present-day Moldova). Both of her parents were science teachers. In 1981, Taitz emigrated to Israel, where she obtained a dentistry degree at Hebrew University. In 1987, she met Yosef Taitz who proposed four months later. Taitz emigrated to the United States in May 1987, marrying the Latvian-born Yosef in Las Vegas. Taitz became a naturalized United States citizen in 1992. She received her law degree from Taft Law School and was admitted to practice law in California in December 2002.
Taitz lives in Laguna Niguel, California, and owns dental practices in nearby Mission Viejo and Rancho Santa Margarita. She has three sons, holds a second degree black belt in Taekwondo, and speaks five languages: English, Hebrew, Romanian, Russian and Spanish.
Before her national news exposure, Taitz was quoted in The Orange County Register in 2006 supporting Israeli military actions against Hamas and Hezbollah, and downplaying the impact of the espionage trial of two American Israel Public Affairs Committee staffers. (Charges against both were subsequently dropped.) Taitz has also said that she lost relatives in the Holocaust and that her grandmother witnessed the Kishinev pogrom.
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