Posts Tagged: Ashkenazi
Pesach is Personal
JNS.org - Passover is less than two weeks away, and it’s always interesting to see the many holiday customs that are observed by different communities....
The Day After: ‘Every Day Is Oct. 8’
JNS.org - Every ending is a new beginning. When we conclude each of the five books of the Torah (as we did last week) the reader...
Jewish Genetic Screening Becomes More Accessible With At-Home Testing
JNS.org - One in four Jews is a carrier of one or more of the 19 known preventable Jewish genetic diseases, according to...
New Data Shows Ashkenazis Have Western European DNA
JNS.org - A new paper in the journal Nature Communications claims that Ashkenazi Jews have primarily European roots via the maternal genetic line. Previous research...
Anti-Semitism at Anti Zimmerman Protest; ‘You Ashkenazi Crafted Devil’ Proclaims T-Shirt
A man leading a demonstration against the recent acquittal of George Zimmerman in a murder trial that mesmerized the United States, was caught on camera...
34 Signs of Being a Sephardi/Mizrahi Jew
I just love being Sephardi (my family is originally Turkish). In fact, I find it to be one of the simple pleasures in life!...
Jew Versus Jew
There's a cute joke doing the rounds in Israel at the moment that my friend, Edward Cohen, sent me. It's an adaptation of a...
Stories of the ‘Jewish Pope’ – Rabbi Israel Meir Lau
Israel Meir Lau, the former Chief Rabbi of Israel -and both former and current Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv - shared the stage...
Many Faces of Israel, the Exhibit
The highly styled work of Jahhael Massac, a native of St. Thomas, the Virgin Islands, is currently on display at The Gallery of the Adam...
