Posts Tagged: Ashkenazi Jews
Why the US Diaspora Misunderstands Israel
JNS.org - Israel is meant to be the nation-state of the Jewish people. But for some time now, we have been hearing that the US...
Give Sephardi Voices a Seat at the Global Jewish Table
JNS.org - It is rare that a week passes without a new initiative in the Jewish world to promote pluralism and diversity. And I believe it...
The Sephardi Perspective
JNS.org - While deciding on the title for this blog, I was keenly aware of the use of terminology and its sometimes confusing and divisive role. How...
‘Lapsed Presbyterian’ Author Carves an Unlikely Niche: Jewish Achievement (INTERVIEW)
JNS.org - Despite the horrors of the Holocaust, the 20th century was arguably one of the most successful centuries ever for the Jewish people, especially for...
Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Hadassah Fights BRCA With Decorated Bras
JNS.org - BRCA. It’s the gene mutation that gives Ashkenazi Jews a higher risk of breast cancer than the general population. But the women’s Zionist organization...
In the Ashkenazi Heartland, a Struggle Over Ruins and Jewish Memory
JNS.org - Walking through Lviv, a Ukrainian city near the Polish border whose Jewish population is a small fraction of what it once was, it’s not...
Will Sephardic Jews Join Ashkenazi Embrace of Pre-Marriage Genetic Testing?
JNS.org - “There is no person in the world without issues,” says Rabbi Yosef Ekstein, the founder of the organization Dor Yeshorim (“Upright Generation” in Hebrew),...
Michael J. Fox Foundation Seeking Volunteers for Study on Parkinson’s and Ashkenazi Jews
The Michael J. Fox Foundation, a major charity dedicated to finding a cure to Parkinson's disease, announced on Sunday that it is seeking volunteers to participate...
Israel Must Banish its Ashkenazi-Mizrahi Stereotypes
Living in Israel sometimes makes me wonder what it must have been like to live in 1950s America. My grandmother was a civil rights...
Research Shows ‘SuperBubbes’ Might Hold Secret to Immortality
Aging Ashkenazi Jewish women who live long, healthy lives could hold the key to immortality, according to research highlighted by the New York Post on Sunday. Albert Einstein...
Family Tree DNA Founder: Data Proves Jews Came From Mideast
JNS.org - The founder and president of Family Tree DNA, one of the top U.S. genealogical genetic testing companies, said genetics prove that the...
How DNA Testing Can Reveal Jewish Ancestry and Bolster the Zionist Narrative
JNS.org - When Noah Slepkov started using online genealogical tools to build a family tree, little did he know that his personal exploration might...
All Ashkenazi Jews Descend From 350 People, Study Shows
JNS.org - A new study conducted at Columbia University, based on the genetic sequencing of 128 Ashkenazi Jews, shows that modern Ashkenazi Jews descend...
Tony Blair Sister-in-Law Lauren Booth Slammed for ‘Anti-Semitic’ Tweet
British columnist Lauren Booth, the sister-in-law of Tony Blair, former UK Prime Minister and current Quartet Representative to Jerusalem, writes for The Mail on Sunday and...
