Tag: Ashkenazi Jews
Oct. 7 memorial for Jews of color ‘missed opportunity’ for unity, says American Sephardi...
A group that describes itself as “unabashedly progressive” is defending its decision to hold an Oct. 7 memorial for “Sephardic, Mizrachi and all Jews of color,” after the event drew criticism from the American...
Genetics can bring Jews and Arabs together
The core anti-Israel claim on campuses is that the Jews are not indigenous in the Land of Israel. Jews are labeled as “settler-colonialists” and, based on this, the Jewish state is declared illegitimate and worth...
„ווער דאַרף הײַנט אַשכּנזישע קולטור?‟ וועט זײַן די טעמע אויף ישׂראל־קאָנפֿערענץ
ס׳רובֿ ישׂראלים — בפֿרט די ניט־פֿרומע — האַלטן מסתּמא, אַז די טערמינען אַשכּנזיש, ספֿרדיש און מיזרחיש זענען הײַנט אַנאַכראָניסטיש, און אויב ניט, וואָלטן זיי געדאַרפֿט אַזוי זײַן. די ישׂראלדיקע קולטור, וואָלטן זיי געטענהט, איז...
Considerable Shared DNA Between Ashkenazi and Sephardic Populations
Many Eastern Europeans refer to their families as part Sephardic. Alexander Beider dismisses their claim in a Forward article without any citation or input from historians or geneticists. It’s also a bit insulting to...
Pilot program offers free genetic testing for Ashkenazi Jews to detect cancer risk
Cancer touches us all. But it’s no secret, at least in the medical community, that elevated genetic risk of several cancers disproportionately afflicts one community: Ashkenazi Jews.
Jews of Eastern European ancestry, commonly known as...