Record Breaking Granny: 1,400 Relatives

Precisely why we have over population of the human species, and are rapidly destroying the planet.

its not so black and white, pkpost. no one is saying not to have a family. but having 14 children who’s children have 14 children and so on is excessive. resources ARE limited.

dog, this might not be politically-correct to say, but if you’re so worried about limited resources, why aren’t you yelling about sub-saharan Africans who have 7+ kids? They have far more limited resources than people living in developed parts of the world, like Israel. You don’t seriously expect me, living in wealthy North America, do give up having more children so that I leave “room and resources” for someone in Somalia, do you? Pft…
And plus, how selfish to bring children into the world when you live in a country full of disease and starvation. Those Africans should all be neuteured and should let childbearing to those of us who can offer a more human existence to our children. Right? Right? Does that sound about right, people?

So how many of these 1400 people are on public assistance?

I would like to say the world is NOT over populated. As a matter of Fact every human in the world (6 billion) would fit into the state of Texas and have 15 square feet of space each! That leaves the rest of the entire world to raise crops for food and explore for natural resources. I say God bless the big families!!

I love how people want to say that believe in God is childish, but don’t stop to think that believing in things magically appearing in all the right places is a viable solution. They are the same people that if they came up to an abandoned campsite would say “gee, I guess all those piece of wood came together magically and started to burn on their own, and that the rocks around them formed around them over millions of years.”
I love people who don’t believe in God. Someday, they’ll grow up and believe in something greater than their selfish selves.

“The young couple then set about following the Jewish commandment to be “fruitful and multiply.” And they certainly succeeded.”
Hrm, I always thought the commandments, especially this commandment, was for human beings, not just the Jewish people. But then again, I don’t work for ABC so what do I know?

Let’s put this into perspective.
This woman and her husband had whole families wiped out in the Holocaust. They were merely replacing what was stolen from them. I, myself, can count over 400 family members, great-aunts & uncles, cousins, lost.

@Ferhat
Did you know if you stacked everyone in the world side by side, they wouldn’t fill up the state of Florida? That’s a fact.
You’ve been duped, buddy. You’re apart of the evolutionist religion.

For all the environmental-whackos that say we are destroying the Earth with overpopulation; go green, save a tree and mother Earth…rid the planet of your carbon foot print.

You can fit the entire world’s population in Texas. So grow up and think for yourselves. This is the same crap they were SCREAMING about in the ’70′s except then we were all going to freeze to death and swine flu would kill us all. SAME OLD FEAR/CONTROL METHODS! Just a new decade… Live bravely and freely!!!

The way they are spelling her last name, did they really get that from data on her, or is it actually Kryzewski?

Why do we view humans merely as consumers of resources instead of valuable, contributing members of society? If they raised these kids well, they have done us all a great service.

Knowing all 1400 names. Wonderful! I have a husband and a son … and sometimes I mix their names up. Thankfully, we don’t have pets to add to the mix, or else I’d be in real trouble! ;)
For those who read the article and only saw the ‘numbers,’ how about I ‘donate’ the 1.5 kids that I’m not using to her? And … I’ll throw in the 1.5 that my Mom didn’t use. Does that ‘legitimize’ 3 of her brood? Get a grip people. A family … a COMMUNITY is grieving the loss of a loved one.
Shalom.

That is great! Congrats to that family!

Before you let the commie overpopulation police take away more of your rights.
Why not start complaining about all those dogs and cats, eating hundreds of millions of tons of food.
Why is it always humans that must be aborted?
Try mandating the reduction of the pet population first…see how far you get.

Those of you who think that the world is overpopulated, usually are referring to everyone but yourselves.
Since you have already been born by “Divine Decree” you think everyone else is just taking up “your” space. How blind, selfish, narrow minded, utilitarian, evil, and wrong of you!
If you think the world is overpopulated, then why don’t “you” practice what you preach and be the first to lead the way and lower the population count by at least “one”?! That’s EXACTLY what you’re demanding others to do.
Rather, I say, save, plan, and produce, the greatest natural resource we have–Human Beings!
You’re welcome!

Good for grandma! What a gal.

The people claiming that the entire population can fit into Texas are terrifyingly ignorant. Sure, it’s all well and good if people don’t do anything besides stand there in their little bit of land, but first of all most people take up a lot more space than 15 square feet. (and HELLO all of the land that’s inhabitable by most humans?) If the entire world lived like the average American, it would take the area of 5.3 planet Earths to provide all of the necessary resources. We move around, eat, build houses and families and all sorts of other things. Food is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of land use. Land had to be used to mine for the metals in your computer, to provide gas for cars, coal for electricity etc. Land was take up to supply and build all of the Walmarts, parking structures, and strip clubs of the world. Population’s impact on the environment has SO much more to do with affluence and the resources used than simply the number of people alive.
So kindly stop bashing the little old lady and try to educate yourselves a little bit about some of the current issues of the environment. Believing in God or not shouldn’t have anything to do with how you treat the planet.

Overpopulation is nothing more than fear mongering by the dog and pony show of politics. If we cut our per capita consumption down to 2000 calories per person per day the United States could feed a population of nearly 750 million.

This is a disgusting story. It’s people like this family that are virus’ upon the earth.

If the world couldn’t support 6 billion people there wouldn’t be 6 billion people. Every generation has claimed the world is overpopulated. Until the population actually stops growing, it’s simply not true.

Enough already!

@Erica
God says to multiply. Yes, humans need more than 15 feet of room. But it shows how dumb this “we need to quit breeding” crap is. If we were truly over-populated, no one would eat, and no one would be able to go camping because humans would just be enhabiting the areas. It’s a stupid, false illusion.
Go look at satallite images of earth. How much occupied to unoccupied earth do you see? There’s MILES of land that is unoccupied. Just a thought..

Funny how the hypocrites who whine about overpopulation never volunteer to remove THEMSELVES from the planet.

This is in responce to the person who wrote that we could fit everyone into texas… 15 square feet is less than 4′ x 4′. How hot do you think that would be? There are too many people.

You have to count for more than body space when addressing over population. How about all the additional resources required for their life support….entertainment, food, shelter, and clothing.

I have eight daughters and three sons and my children do frequently say, “Just think, Mom, you could have a hundred grandchildren!”
The gloom and doomers have nothing on their side but an abundance of pessimism. They’re welcome to it.

I say God Bless the real families. To the people that can’t afford to feed themselves and have 8 kids hoping one of them will become a big football star… Who am I to judge though.

NOW I WILL TELL YOU THE BACKGROUND STORY WHICH IS SO WELL KNOWN IN ISRAEL THAT I TEND TO BELIEVE THE ABC REPORTER LIKE MOST LEFT LEANING REPORTERS WILL NEVER MENTION ANYTHING THAT BRINGS UP THE HOLOCAUST.
NEXT TO MAHANE YEHUDA MARKET SPREADS NOW INTO A VALLEY, FRANKLY I CALL THE VALLEY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. IT FALLS INTO AN AREA THAT IS CALLED MIR SHARIM, WHICH IN HEBREW MEANS THE RIGHTEOUS GATES. AND IT TRULY IS, I KNOW PERSONALLY I LIVED THERE, IT IS MADE UP ALMOST ENTIRELY OF ASKANSNZI JEWS WHICH ARE EUROPEAN JEWS, AND THEY CAME FROM LITERALLY THOUSAND GENERATIONS OF PRACTICING TORAH JEWS WHO THE NAZIS HATED FIRST AND NOW I AM SO SAD TO SAY THE SECULAR JEWS HATE FIRST AS WELL. ALL THESE JEWS IF THEY MADE IT OUT OF THE REACH OF THE NAZIS GAS CHAMBERS, THEY DON’T HAVE ONE LIVING RELATIVE. AND WHEN YOU EXPERIENCE FIRST HAND THE BRUTE TRYING TO WIPE YOU FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH BY KILLING EVERY RELATIVE YOU HAVE AND EVERY PERSON YOU KNOW. IT BECOMES THE MAIN FOCUS OF YOUR LIFE, WHEN YOU HAVE NO GUNS, YOU DO NOT HAVE THE SOPHISTICATION TO COMBAT THIS HORRIFIC CRUELTY THAT YOU HAVE WITNESSED AND SUFFERED DOWN TO THE DEPTHS OF YOUR SOUL. SO THE ONLY HONEST TORAH WAY YOU CAN OVERCOME THIS VAMPIRE DEVIANCE IS TO HAVE AS MANY BEAUTIFUL JEWISH CHILDREN RAISED IN TRUE TORAH RELIGIOUS TRADITION WHERE HOME AND FAMILY AND LOVE IS THE WALLS OF ALL YOUR REALITY. AND SO THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY DID.
TO BRING IT IN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE, IN ISRAEL OR IN AMERICA WHEN I MENTION I LIVED IN MER SHARIM, I AM HIT WITH A GASP, LIKE I HAD SAID A CURSE WORD. AND WHAT DOES THAT SHOW YOU. THAT SHOWS YOU THAT THE SOCIALIST SECULARIST IN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY BOTH IN ISRAEL AND AMERICA HAS TURNED THE LOVE AND FEAR OF G-D OF HUMBLE AND PIOUS PEOPLE INTO SOME KIND OF PITIFUL ALIENS. AND THAT IS ALSO EXACTLY WHAT SECULAR SOCIALISTS ARE TRYING TO DO WITH EVERY RELIGIOUS CHRISTIAN IN AMERICA. FACT.

Runningace and Nathan, My kids love to use this logic in discussions. Often, they get the response, “But I don’t want to move to Texas!” =8-O
I’ll suggest that my kids work the math for Rhode Island too, so they can add that to their list of logical answers!
Well done, y’all!

In a world that’s running out of pretty much everything, this is an obscenity.

Right on Nathan.

I’d rather see one adult man and one adult woman love each other and have many children that contribute to the planet than a cult of one man with 50 plus sister wives and more children with his last name than he can afford and thus puts illegally on welfare.
I would say G-d bless you, Mrs. Krishevsky, but it seems He already has with such a wonderful family, and they with you as its matriarch during your time on earth.

I just don’t get how you can see it as a blessing from god
why do people just throw god into everything
God this god that
if you believe you believe but saying that having 11 children is a blessing from god is pointless

These people have it all wrong.
To be fruitful and multiply means to: work hard and be productive, and LEARN YOUR TIMES TABLES so you can use quantitative reasoning – something lacking in this family!

Carole:
There are many states in the U.S. in which it is still legal to marry your first cousin. Until recently, it was a fairly common phenomenon in the United States–many of us have cousins, even first cousins, in our family trees. Just because it has become a taboo in the United States and Europe does not make it a taboo in the rest of the world. Please keep your judgments to yourself.

@Rick
Oh, please. It’s so stupid to say the earth is over-populated. Over-population is a MYTH.
According to the U.N. Population Database, the world’s population in 2010 will be 6,908,688,000. The landmass of Texas is 268,820 sq mi (7,494,271,488,000 sq ft).
So, divide 7,494,271,488,000 sq ft by 6,908,688,000 people, and you get 1084.76 sq ft/person. That’s approximately a 33′ x 33′ plot of land for every person on the planet, enough space for a town house.
Given an average four person family, every family would have a 66′ x 66′ plot of land, which would comfortably provide a single family home and yard — and all of them fit on a landmass the size of Texas. Admittedly, it’d basically be one massive subdivision, but Texas is a tiny portion of the inhabitable Earth.
Such an arrangement would leave the entire rest of the world vacant. There’s plenty of space for humanity.

If one travels away from the cities and built up areas, there are all kinds of room and resouces. Canada and Siberia are vast land masses, thinly populated, due to climate. Wraming climate will open these areas up for development.
For many, many millenia the earth has been a balanced self-sustaining system. If humans overpopulated the earths resources, doesn’t follow that they would die off until equilibrium was restored? Who is to say that in a misguided effort to save the planet, humanity might destroy itself?

May she rest in peace….and may the joy she brought to her family live on through each of them!! She sounds like she was a real blessing to each of them.

oh vey

The lack of intelligence in these comments is disturbing.

@Paul
The worries with overpopulation isn’t what’s happening right now, but what’s going to happen eventually, since pop. growth happens exponentially. we’re getting by for 6 billion people, but will we have enough in 2040 when it’s projected to reach 9 million? that’s only about a generation or so away.
We don’t need to quit breeding, (unless you are china, we can’t stop it even if we tried, so why bother?) we should just be thinking about our greatgreatgrandkids and the world they are going to inherit. We need to manage growth well and keep it from sprawling and degrading too much more of nature. There’s so much more to protecting nature than being a dirty treehugger. If God gave us this planet to manage, shouldn’t we do it well? Having a healthy environment is just better for mankind, and you can’t have a healthy environment if it’s all being used for agriculture or being inhabited by humans.
I still am not understanding why people are choosing to reject scientific concepts because of faith. they ARE NOT mutually exclusive.

If 6 million of us can be ruthlessly murdered while the world watches silently, I think that the world can be silent and admire a woman who chose to bring 1,400 of us into the world.

Hey, leave Texas out of this!

Some of you guys need to calm down.
This woman died at 99 and probably had the last of her children by the end of WWII.
The thing that is principally unique is that the family is so close knit that that they know each other. All of you probably had the same number of children in your ancestors families if you went back to 1909, but you have moved countries and lost track of each other.

What a beautiful story. Children are a blessing.

Sorry, typo, I meant to say ‘rural areas’ as opposed to ‘urban areas.’

I am so shocked to hear all of these comments you people are making about this BLESSED WOMAN! God has truly Blessed her and her family..she should be PRAISED Not put down for having a large family….Are all of these comments from CHRISTIANS…if so you better get down on your knees tonight and ask for forgiveness! yeah do it now don’t wait for tonight! God Bless Rachel and her Family!

Dog, resources are limited IF you’re dependent on humans to provide for you. But when your Father is the Creator God, there is no limit to His provision. “Limited resources” is a lie to advance the plans of power-grabbers.
“Christianity has not been tried and been found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.” G.K. Chesterson
Hope to see you in eternity!

The funny thing is a Haredi family of 14 still uses less water than a American family of 3 and a couple of dogs.
On that point, most Haredi families do not have a car and those who do, do not have more than one. Why? They live in neighborhoods that don’t require you to have a car, let alone two.