Video: Both Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews celebrated Ladino Day at this event – Forward
admin | January 30, 2024
Video: Both Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews celebrated Ladino Day at this event Forward
admin | January 30, 2024
Video: Both Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews celebrated Ladino Day at this event Forward
admin | January 30, 2024
Lawsuit says 23andMe hackers targeted users with Chinese and Ashkenazi Jewish heritage Engadget
admin | January 19, 2024
Matzah ball soup dumplings, a mashup of Ashkenazi and Asian cuisines, are on offer at this Brooklyn eatery JTA News - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
admin | 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
admin | November 14, 2023
Jewish subgroups Jewish ethnic divisions refer to many distinctive communities within the world's ethnically Jewish population.
admin | 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.
admin | November 2, 2023
State AG presses 23andMe for action after hack that targeted Ashkenazi Jewish, Chinese ancestry The Hill
admin | October 22, 2023
In Israel, the term Ashkenazi is now used in a manner unrelated to its original meaning, often applied to all Jews who settled in Europe[citation needed] and sometimes including those whose ethnic background is actually Sephardic. Jews of any non-Ashkenazi background, including Mizrahi, Yemenite, Kurdish and others who have no connection with the Iberian Peninsula, have similarly come to be lumped together as Sephardic. Jews of mixed background are increasingly common, partly because of intermarriage between Ashkenazi and Sephardi/Mizrahi, and partly because many do not see such historic markers as relevant to their life experiences as Jews.[4] The Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel is an honored leadership role given to a respected Ashkenazi rabbi.
admin | September 18, 2023
Background The geographical origin of the Biblical Ashkenaz, Ashkenazic Jews (AJs), and Yiddish, are among the longest standing questions in history, genetics, and linguistics. Uncertainties concerning the meaning of Ashkenaz arose in the Eleventh century when the term shifted from a designation of the Iranian Scythians to become that of Slavs and Germans and finally of German (Ashkenazic) Jews in the Eleventh to Thirteenth centuries (Wexler, 1993). The first known discussion of the origin of German Jews and Yiddish surfaced in the writings of the Hebrew grammarian Elia Baxur in the first half of the Sixteenth century (Wexler, 1993)
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