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Amit Rahav, Michael Aloni and Lior Ashkenazi star in Holocaust series on Disney+ – Jewish News

| July 19, 2024

One person surviving the Holocaust is remarkable.

Israel’s chief rabbis leave their posts as term ends with no election set – JTA News – Jewish Telegraphic Agency

| July 6, 2024

Israels two chief rabbis stepped down from their posts this week, leaving the positions officially vacant for the first time in more than a century as the government has failed to set a date for their successors election. Two rabbis have stepped in to fulfill the jobs duties on an interim basis, but who the next Ashkenazi and Sephardi chief rabbis will be and when they will be chosen remains unclear

Did anybody notice that Israel’s chief rabbis retired? – The Jerusalem Post

| July 6, 2024

On Monday, the curtains fell on the tenures of Israels chief rabbis, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau and Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef. For the first time since 1921, Israel is without chief rabbis. But if this slipped under your radar, youre not alone

Ashkenazi chief rabbi calls for unity at Tel Aviv’s Hostages’ Square: ‘We all want to see them home’ – The Times of Israel

| April 20, 2024

Were really pleased that youve read X Times of Israel articles in the past month. Thats why we started the Times of Israel eleven years ago - to provide discerning readers like you with must-read coverage of Israel and the Jewish world. So now we have a request

Kitniyot in Israel: The most heated debate around Passover – The Jerusalem Post

| April 20, 2024

Judaism is famous for its dietary restrictions, but Passover takes it to another level by prohibiting the consumption or even any benefit derived from hametz. But while this is universal among observant Jews, there is another restriction that is far more divisive and continues to this day: kitniyot.

Hulu’s ‘We Were the Lucky Ones’ Introduces American Viewers to Israeli Legend Lior Ashkenazi Kveller – Kveller.com

| March 30, 2024

I may be biased because we have the same first name, but I think Lior Ashkenazi is one of the finest male Israeli actors alive.

‘How many miracles can we get?’: Holocaust saga comes to life in new Hulu miniseries – The Times of Israel

| March 30, 2024

It was Passover 1938, and the Kurc family gathered around the Seder table in Radom, Poland, to celebrate. By the next year, with the onset of World War II, the family found itself scattered far and wide, trying desperately to survive the Holocaust with almost no knowledge of the fate of their loved ones. The Kurc familys story is at the center of We Were the Lucky Ones, a new eight-part Hulu miniseries that covers close to a decade of their harrowing journeys.

Ashkenazi Jews Have Become More Genetically Similar Over Time

| December 24, 2023

A study of skeletons unearthed from a medieval Jewish cemetery in Germany has revealed a surprising genetic split among Ashkenazi Jews of the Middle Ages that no longer exists. The analysis, the first of its kind from a Jewish burial ground and the product of yearslong negotiations among scientists, historians and religious leaders, shows that Ashkenazim have become more genetically similar over the past seven centuries

Jewish ethnic divisions – Wikipedia

| November 14, 2023

Jewish subgroups Jewish ethnic divisions refer to many distinctive communities within the world's ethnically Jewish population.

Ashkenazi Jews descend from 350 people, study finds

| November 2, 2023

A new study concludes that all Ashkenazi Jews can trace their ancestry to a bottleneck of just 350 individuals, dating back to between 600 and 800 years ago. The study, published in the Nature Communications journal Tuesday, was authored by Shai Carmi, a computer science professor at Columbia University, and more than 20 medical researchers from Yale, Columbia, Yeshiva Universitys Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and other institutions. Researchers analyzed the genomes of 128 Ashkenazi Jews and compared them to those of non-Jewish Europeans in order to determine which genetic markers are unique to Ashkenazi Jews.


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