DNA
Israeli Rabbis Are Using DNA Testing To Police Civil Rights. This Shouldn’t Shock You.
Adopting science in order to define who is a Jew and who is not is part and parcel of a rightward turn Israel has fostered under Benjamin Netanyahu.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Sephardic Claim Unleashes Fierce Debate About Jewish Identity
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s claim that she has Sephardic Jewish heritage leads to questions over whether such heritage can ever be proven.
Elizabeth Warren’s Stunt Shows Danger Of DNA Testing For Jews
DNA is not identity. We aren’t our genetic markers. It’s a message Jewish people at this moment could stand to hear as well.
Can Your DNA Predict Your Playlist? Spotify Is Going All Genetic To Find Out.
Hey, why not just trade a screenshot of your social security card for a recommendation of what Starbucks drink to order?
Stephen Colbert Offers To Live-Circumcise ‘Jewish’ Paul Ryan On His Show
“Think of it this way, Paul. The foreskin is only one percent of the penis. And we know how much you love cuts for the one percent.”
Don’t You Dare Claim To Be Jewish, Paul Ryan
You’re not welcome here.
One Woman’s Surprising DNA Discovery — Of Jewish Roots
“I felt adrift. I didn’t know who I was — you know, who I really was.”
Rival Outreach Groups Feud Over DNA Test For ‘Lost Tribe of Israel’
A genetic test of the Igbo is the latest in a growing tensions between mainstream Jews and Jesus-believing Messianic Jews — both of whom want to reach this “lost tribe of Israel” first.
Reclusive Marvel CEO Ike Perlmutter Suing Over Stolen DNA
For a recluse, particularly a powerful and wealthy businessman, all theft is an immense transgression – even the theft of DNA.
Scholars Blast New Study Tracing Ashkenazi Jews to Khazars of Ancient Turkey
(JTA) — Prominent scholars of Jewish demography dismissed the findings of a newly published genetic study suggesting that today’s Ashkenazi Jews originate from converts to Judaism in what today is Turkey. Titled “Localizing Ashkenazic Jews to primeval villages in the ancient Iranian lands of Ashkenaz,” the study by the University of Sheffield geneticist Eran Elhaik…