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The Arab Weekly
April 26, 2018
There has never been a Mizrahi prime minister, for example. Mizrahim far outnumber Ashkenazim in prison and are far outnumbered in academia. Ashkenazi men earn more than Mizrahim, said the Adva Centre think-tank, although less so than in the past. The series ramped up an internal Mizrahi debateÃÂ ...
Ancient Origins
April 19, 2018
In conclusion, Richards said , “The origins of the Ashkenazim is one of the big questions that people have pursued again and again and never really come to a conclusive view.” Top Image: Detail of 'Ashkenazi Jews praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur. (1878 painting by Maurycy Gottlieb) Source:ÃÂ ...
St. Louis Jewish Light
April 19, 2018
WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, April 24. WHERE: Jewish Community Center's Arts & Education Building, 2 Millstone Campus Drive, Creve Coeur. HOW MUCH: Free. MORE INFO: RSVPs required to 314-442-3111 or at nishmah.org. An hour before the program, a free kosher dinner will be held for women inÃÂ ...
Forward
April 13, 2018
These major features are easily explained by the fact that Ashkenazim from Eastern Europe heavily influenced modern Israeli Hebrew. Globally speaking, all sounds present in Israeli Hebrew were also known in Yiddish, an Ashkenazic language. Yet certain guttural sounds known in Sephardic communitiesÃÂ ...
FierceCEO
April 6, 2018
Delivering a recruitment system like no other, at a time when the job market is booming, is the aim of Uncommon CEO Amir Ashkenazi. Ashkenazi's system, which went live in February, uses AI, like many others do. But Ashkenazi says it is the only one that provides a detailed comparison of a candidates'ÃÂ ...
Forward
April 6, 2018
In the wake of the United States' failure to qualify for the World Cup, which will be held in Russia, 23andMe has announced a new partnership with FOX Sports that will try to get fans pumped up by encouraging them to root for the country of their ancestors. It sure is nice to feel genetic license to root forÃÂ ...
The Riverdale Press
April 5, 2018
She may not call herself an exercise fanatic, but Judy Fettman loves to get a good sweat going. That's why she makes it her business to show up at the health club at North Riverdale's Skyview-on-the-Hudson as often as she can. A resident there of 33 years, Fettman combines leg raises, lat pull-downs andÃÂ ...
OnlinePokerReport.com
December 31, 1999
There was no real surprise when the Stars Group announced the purchase of Sky Betting and Gaming (SBG) over the weekend. The company has been openly seeking a major acquisition for some time. But a purchase price of $4.7 billion, let's give it the respect it deserves: a huge amount of cash upfrontÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
February 17, 2018
Decades of formal and informal racist policies have kept Ashkenazi Jews at the top rung of Israeli society. As Israeli journalist Gideon Levy has argued, "the entire political, economic, legal, academic and even military leadership is made up of Ashkenazim, with a smattering of Sephardim as the exceptionsÃÂ ...
TechCrunch
February 16, 2018
Ashkenazi and Grenager started Uncommon.co when they realized that some of the insights they had learned from programmatic advertising as a marketplace could be applied to recruiting. Grenager studied AI at Stanford as a PhD student and has been working the past two years building out the modelsÃÂ ...
From the Grapevine
February 7, 2018
Yaniv Ashkenazi (left), head of the Israeli delegation, poses next to the Olympic mascot with speed skater Vlad Bykanov (right). (Photo: Courtesy Yaniv Ashkenazi). Paige Conners (left) and Evgeni Krasnopolsky pose after lacing up their skates on Wednesday. (Photo: Courtesy Yaniv Ashkenazi).
Prague Daily Monitor
February 6, 2018
The first commentary on Karo's code for the Ashkenazi community was written by Rabbi Moshe Isserles. Commentaries by five other Jewish scholars followed, included that by Shakh. These commentaries have remained the basis of the Jewish law until now. The Holesov synagogue also bought a copy of aÃÂ ...
Forward
January 29, 2018
But we are pleased to report that Bruno Mars had an Ashkenazi Jewish parent who identified as such. He is apparently descended from a Hebrew school teacher, and his last album was called “Unorthodox Jukebox,” so you do the math. All of this is to say, we wish Bruno a major mazal tov. And now that weÃÂ ...
Jewish Link of New Jersey
January 25, 2018
Rabbi Asher, as an Ashkenazi expat in Spain, held fast to his Ashkenazi rites and customs. He founded a yeshiva where he attempted to conserve his ancestral customs. His daughters married Ashkenazim, although at least one of them married a local Sephardi who adopted Ashkenazic customs.
IBD News Today
January 16, 2018
The disease-associated effects of the mutations were observed in both Ashkenazim and non-Jews. “The presence of shared LRRK2 mutations in patients with Crohn's disease and Parkinson's disease provides refined insight into disease mechanisms and may have major implications for the treatment ofÃÂ ...
Science Daily
January 15, 2018
Mount Sinai Researchers have just discovered that patients in the Ashkenazi Jewish population with Crohn's disease (a chronic inflammatory of the digestive system) are more likely to carry the LRRK2 gene mutation. This gene is the major genetic cause of Parkinson's disease, which is a movementÃÂ ...
Jewish Chronicle
January 12, 2018
New scientific research has found Ashkenazi Jews with Crohn's disease have an increased chance of carrying a gene mutation that causes Parkinson's disease. A ten-year study, published in the Science Translational Medicine journal, found that Ashkenazi Jews with Crohn's are more likely to have theÃÂ ...
Forward
January 11, 2018
Ashkenazi Jews with Crohn's disease have an increased likelihood of carrying a gene mutation that causes Parkinson's disease, a new scientific study has found. The study, published in Science Translational Medicine, could help doctors better understand the causes of both Parkinson's and Crohn's, a disease causingÃÂ ...
GenomeWeb
January 10, 2018
The researchers began by using exome sequencing and genotyping to search for Crohn's disease-associated genetic variants in nearly 5,700 individuals of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry — a population at enhanced risk of developing the inflammatory bowel disease. As they reported in Science TranslationalÃÂ ...
Variety
December 31, 1999
Maoz, as well as the film's leading man, Lior Ashkenazi, have been accused of being traitors and anti-government agents in a flurry of online posts following Regev's denunciations. Maoz says that he has been threatened with acid attacks in posts that listed his private home address, and Ashkenazi'sÃÂ ...
lareviewofbooks
December 31, 1999
The entire ecosystem of Mrs. Maisel — their friends and neighbors, their temple and deli — develops within an incredibly specific and incredibly narrow segment of society: that of the well-heeled Ashkenazi Jewish Upper West Siders. Everyone else we meet is given the treatment Jewish characters usuallyÃÂ ...
Intelligence Online
December 31, 1999
Since founding his private equity firm in Toronto in 2016, Ashkenazi has taken stakes in a number of Israeli cyber-security firms including Octopus Systems, Nanolock Security and Siga. In addition to investing in Israeli startups, Ashkenazi also heads another subsidiary, Awz Ventures, which focuses on theÃÂ ...
CardsChat.com
November 11, 2017
Ashkenazi revealed that approximately 85 percent of total users were enrolled, and they had been awarded $45 million in prizes since the ...
Daily Sabah
November 10, 2017
By 1894, the Union of Ashkenazi Tailors finished building Beth ha Kenesseth Tofre Begadim, which, from the Hebrew, essentially means the ...
Canadian Jewish News (blog)
November 10, 2017
It was Jewish fare made from the traditional Ashkenazi recipes grandmothers and great-grandmothers brought with them from eastern Europe.
Seeking Alpha
November 10, 2017
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen and thank you for standing by. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode.
Al-Monitor
November 9, 2017
Ramon, a blue-eyed Ashkenazi, was considered a rising star in the ... in the ultra-Orthodox world on the part of Ashkenazim toward Mizrahim ...
The McGill Daily (blog)
November 6, 2017
I was born in Israel. Both my father and my mother come from a long line of Ashkenazi Jews. When I was four years old, my mother brought me ...
Middle East Monitor
November 3, 2017
Did God promise Palestine to one of the purest of any European groups, the Ashkenazi, who now make up 95% of world Jewry? Here are a few ...
Jewish Journal
November 3, 2017
The congregants — a mix of Sephardim and Ashkenazim — caught the ... The VBS Sephardic service isn't only different from an Ashkenazi ...
Jewish Journal
November 2, 2017
While the film festival is sure to attract Sephardic Jews, it's also an opportunity for Ashkenazi Jews to learn more about their Sephardic brethren.
Intermountain Jewish News
October 28, 2017
The Intermountain Jewish News is a weekly independent newspaper founded in 1913, covering the Jewish communities of the Front Range.
Eater Philly
October 28, 2017
The Austria dinner, taking place November 8, kicks off Chef Sichel's series exploring Ashkenazi cuisines in different countries (oversimplifying:Â ...
Jewish Chronicle
October 28, 2017
What really divides classical Sephardic and Ashkenazi Judaism is an ... the world and not — like the Ashkenazim — a wall against the world.
Markets Insider
October 26, 2017
She is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. She lost her grandmother to breast cancer. And she has started a new organization called Oneinforty with ...
Heritage Florida Jewish News
October 20, 2017
'Ashkenazim are a more homogenous population from a genetic point of ... On the genetics side, Ashkenazi Jews are significantly more likely to ...
Heritage Florida Jewish News
October 20, 2017
'Ashkenazim are a more homogenous population from a genetic point of ... On the genetics side, Ashkenazi Jews are significantly more likely to ...
Jordan Times
October 15, 2017
... kidnapping of their babies to be adopted by Ashkenazim (European ... the Mizrahim were considered backward or worse by the Ashkenazi ...
Sun Sentinel
October 13, 2017
"One in 40 Jews of Ashkenazi decent carries a BRCA mutation, compared to one in 400 in the general population. A carrier has an increased ...
Jewish Chronicle
October 12, 2017
Koenig has played with several Ashkenazi recipes. Her chopped liver is vegetarian (“You can find plenty of regular chopped liver recipes”)Â ...
Jewish Exponent
October 12, 2017
Dr. Lisa Jablon has seen many strides in breast cancer treatment since she first entered the field about 30 years ago. The Cheltenham native ...
Genetic Literacy Project
October 5, 2017
Since the late 19th century, the so-called “Khazarian theory” has promoted the idea that a bulk of Ashkenazic Jews living in Eastern Europe ...
Tablet Magazine
October 2, 2017
As nearly half of all Ashkenazi Jews can trace their lineage, via a particular genetic mark, to four women who emigrated from the Middle East to ...
Forward
September 25, 2017
Ashkenazi Jews Are Not Khazars. ..... verification data between the Chenchu, Ashkenazim-Levite and Vikings (which is to be expected because ...
Jewish Link of New Jersey
September 14, 2017
Depends If You Are Sephardic or Ashkenazi ... HaMelech HaMishpat—as long as the word Melech was said—is appropriate for Ashkenazim.
Jewish Journal
December 31, 1999
The congregants — a mix of Sephardim and Ashkenazim — caught the ... The VBS Sephardic service isn't only different from an Ashkenazi ...
Eurasia Review
September 16, 2017
This Ashkenazi man's burden extended to indigenous Arab Jews as well, ... The majority of Jews in the world today are Ashkenazim, tracingÃÂ ...
Seeker
September 16, 2017
Household environment, not genetics, shapes an individual's salivary microbiome, according to research on an extended family of AshkenaziÃÂ ...
Jewish Exponent
September 15, 2017
One in 30 Ashkenazi Jews are carriers of Tay-Sachs, a genetic disorder that damages cells and causes progressive neurological disorders.
Jewish Link of New Jersey
September 15, 2017
Depends If You Are Sephardic or Ashkenazi ... HaMelech HaMishpat—as long as the word Melech was said—is appropriate for Ashkenazim.
