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 ...

One way to collect data on who is Mizrahi and who is Ashkenazi would be to ask people how they define their origin. But there’s also an objective metric available: For 94% of Israelis ...

The study “provides a very nice reference panel for the very unique population of Ashkenazi Jews,” said Alon Keinan, who studies human population genomics at Cornell University in New York. Keinan is ...

The mutation is found in four out of 10 people with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. Out of the 11,000 people tested during the new ...

“The people who are most immune are Ashkenazic Jews and Chinese. We don’t know whether it was deliberately targeted or not, but there are papers out there that show the racial and ethnic diffe ...

Kennedy, Jr. riddled with conspiracy theories that the COVID-19 virus was engineered to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people, advocacy organizations are criticizing the Democratic presidential ...

Israeli guard Or Ashkenazi is garnering attention from various mid and high major college basketball programs. Ashkenazi, a 6-foot-5, 21 year old prospect played for Hapoel Eilat in Israel's top ...