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Friday, February 23rd 2024
The Jewish Chronicle, Feb. 16, 2024 “I found that people are not always who they say they are when we apply genetic criteria to them. But in the end, the identity that people claim for themselves is indeed who they are. If genetics helps someone to make or change an identity, so much the easier,” […]
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Ariel David Haaretz, Oct. 9, 2023 “… the genetic data from Kiryat Yearim offers a first glimpse of how directly sampling remains from the First Temple period can shed light on the history of the ancient Hebrews, Israelite or Judahite.” For the first time, ancient DNA has been recovered from the bodies of ancient […]
Andrew Curry Science, Nov. 30, 2022 “Together with a smaller scale study published in September that looked at DNA from six individuals from the Middle Ages unearthed in Norwich, England, the Erfurt analysis offers clues to where the Ashkenazim came from centuries earlier, and what happened along the way.” On a Sabbath Saturday in March 1349, […]
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Prof. Steven Weitzman The Torah.com, Oct. 1, 2017 “More recent research has shown that the ancestry of the kohanim themselves is more complex than the earliest studies suggested, reflecting many different lineages that emerged at different points in history—and there is still debate about how to interpret the genetic evidence.” In premodern times, the question of where […]
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