The phrase "civil war" is one of the most dominant terms used by Israeli politicians today. What began as a mere warning from Israeli President Isaac ...

Which led me to consider: What, if anything, makes me an Ashkenazi Jew? Two interesting historical phenomena shed light on how distinctions between Jewish communities faded: In Talmudic times ...

IDF chief appoints external team to review Oct. 7 failures • Hezbollah denies responsibility for rockets launched at northern ...

Karin Weiss’s supervision six years ago, she and Weiss met a family of Ashkenazi Jewish origin. Both of their children had ...

The new findings contradict previous assertions that Ashkenazi mitochondrial lineages originated in the Near East, or from mass conversions to Judaism in the Khazar kingdom, an empire in the north ...

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Reply to letter from Levy-Lahad et al.: We thank the authors for their thoughtful comments and questions regarding the new American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG) guidelines “Carrier ...