admin | March 20, 2023
The medical genetics of Jews have been studied to identify and prevent some rare genetic diseases that, while still rare, are more common than average among people of Jewish descent. There are several autosomal recessive genetic disorders that are more common than average in ethnically Jewish populations, particularly Ashkenazi Jews, because of relatively recent population bottlenecks and because of consanguineous marriage (marriage of second cousins or closer).[1] These two phenomena reduce genetic diversity and raise the chance that two parents will carry a mutation in the same gene and pass on both mutations to a child. The genetics of Ashkenazi Jews have been particularly well studied, because the phenomenon affects them the most
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admin | February 27, 2023
In an ideal world, race, skin color, and ethnic origin would have no relevance. But that is not the world we live in. Racism is and remains alive and well throughout the globe.
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admin | February 16, 2023
When my parents sent their saliva away to a genetic testing company late last year and were informed via email a few weeks later that they are both 100% Ashkenazi Jewish, it struck me as slightly odd. Most people I know who have done DNA tests received ancestry results that correspond to geographical areas Chinese, British, West African. Jewish, by comparison, is typically parsed as a religious or cultural identity
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admin | December 31, 2022
Image by Nikki Casey By Alexander BeiderSeptember 25, 2017 In 2010 I was contacted by the chief editor of a volume called Khazars: Myth and History, put together by the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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admin | December 25, 2022
The city of Erfurt in central Germany is home to an impeccably restored medieval synagogue made possible because local Jews had been expelled long before the Nazis began their campaign to destroy Jewish sites. Now, Erfurts long-hidden Jewish past is again offering new insights this time about the genetic history of Ashkenazi Jews
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admin | December 23, 2022
The majority of U.S. Jews identify as White
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admin | December 20, 2022
Largely abandoned theory about Jewish descent The Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry, often called the Khazar myth by its critics,[1]:369[2]:VIII[3] is a largely abandoned historical hypothesis. The hypothesis postulated that Ashkenazi Jews were primarily, or to a large extent, descended from Khazars, a multi-ethnic conglomerate of mostly Turkic peoples who formed a semi-nomadic khanate in and around the northern and central Caucasus and the PonticCaspian steppe. The hypothesis also postulated that after collapse of the Khazar empire, the Khazars fled to Eastern Europe and made up a large part of the Jews there.[4] The hypothesis draws on some medieval sources such as the Khazar Correspondence, according to which at some point in the 8th9th centuries, a small number of Khazars were said by Judah Halevi and Abraham ibn Daud to have converted to Rabbinic Judaism.[5] The scope of the conversion within the Khazar Khanate remains uncertain, but the evidence used to tie the Ashkenazi communities to the Khazars is meager and subject to conflicting interpretations.[6][7][8][9] Genetic studies on Jews have found no substantive evidence of a Khazar origin among Ashkenazi Jews.
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admin | November 19, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: Robin Weigert and Lior Ashkenazi have been cast in series regular roles on the Hulu Limited SeriesWe Were The Lucky Ones that stars Joey King. Robin will star as Nechuma, theKurcmatriarch who is the beating heart and center of the family.
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admin | October 23, 2022
Hypothesized most recent common ancestor of the patrilineal Jewish priestly caste known as Kohanim Y-chromosomal Aaron is the name given to the hypothesized most recent common ancestor of the patrilineal Jewish priestly caste known as Kohanim (singular "Kohen", also spelled "Cohen").
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admin | October 23, 2022
Wanted for work in Israel: pimps and Ashkenazi cooks Haaretz
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