Update, 9:20 a.m.: This story has been updated with 23andMe’s response. A recent study found that 23andMe’s direct-to-consumer BRCA test misses almost 90% of mutation carriers, GenomeWeb reported. Researchers at Invitae, a genetic information company, led the study into 23andMe’s test, which looks for three common branches in the cancer-causing BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. Mutations…
Update, 3:38 p.m.: The newest version of this story adds context on the process by which witnesses are asked to testify. Candace Owens, a conservative commentator and spokesperson for the right-wing campus group Turning Points USA, will testify before Congress about hate crimes and white nationalism, The Hill reported. Owens will be one of several…
During the Republican Jewish Coalition, an American lobbying group that met in Las Vegas over the weekend, President Trump was the center of praise — and a new version of the Passover song “Dayenu.” RJC chairman Norm Coleman introduced Trump: “There were some doubters in this room, and I was foolishly among them.” He then led…
Last week, a hospital in Southern California withdrew a job offer from Lara Kollab, an osteopath in the internal medicine residency program, over the discovery that she used anti-Semitic language on Twitter. The tweets, dating back to 2012, include some that evoke Kollab’s medical training: she wrote that she would “purposely give all the yahood…
President Trump seemed to be confused about who he was addressing at the Republican Jewish Coalition over the weekend. He appeared to refer to the crowd of American Jewish Republicans as Israelis, even noting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “your prime minister,” Business Insider reported. Speaking to the American Republican Jewish Coalition, Trump refers…
(JTA) — An Albanian national with U.S. citizenship was arrested after he told a federal informant that he wanted to join ISIS and plan a terror attack on one of several possible locations, including a synagogue. After he heard about the attacks on two mosques in New Zealand he was inspired to “attack random people”…
(JTA) BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — An Iranian news portal in Latin America has published an article claiming that Israel uses Palestinian prisoners for “new medical trials.” Despite citing no evidence for the claim, the HispanTV report Wednesday has spread to outlets across Latin America, including the El Ciudadano monthly in Chile and the website of an…
A high school teacher in Texas has been suspended due to his alleged ties to a white nationalist group, HuffPost reported Thursday. Stephen Arnquist, a Japanese teacher at Skyline High School in Dallas, was accused by an antifa group of belonging to Identity Evropa, one of the most prominent white nationalist groups in America. More…
White House senior advisors Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner revised their financial disclosure forms a combined 10 times in the last month, according to files obtained by a Washington watchdog group. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which acquired and published the forms for Trump and Kushner, said they were disturbed by the number…
(JTA) — A Columbia University professor wrote on Facebook that the only difference between Israel and the Islamic State is that Zionist columnists defend the Jewish state’s “terrorist cause.” Hamid Dabashi, a professor in the university’s Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, wrote this last week, triggering an outcry by pro-Israel students….
NEW YORK (JTA) — Fifteen activists from IfNotNow, a Jewish group of millennials that protests Israel’s control of the West Bank, were arrested Friday while demonstrating outside Birthright Israel’s offices in New York City. The activists were college students, according to IfNotNow, which has been protesting Birthright in a variety of ways since last year, including…
