An Australian woman who thought her Jewish family members had been lost in the Holocaust over 80 years ago says she feels "blessed" to have found about 50 living relatives through DNA testing. "For me ...
A new DNA study on the 500-year-old remains of Christopher Columbus has found that the controversial explorer was actually a Sephardic Jew from western Europe. Spanish researchers announced their ...
While there are genetic markers that are more or less prevalent among Jewish populations, there’s no such thing as “Jewish DNA.” More importantly, DNA is not identity. Lab results tell us less than ...
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The modern marketplace of identity is crowded with ancestry kits and heritage maps that reduce belonging to percentages. Yet something more consequential is unfolding: people who, upon discovering ...
A long-debunked antisemitic conspiracy theory is back—turbocharged by social media—and it’s helping to fuel a sharp rise in anti-Jewish sentiment. A crackpot theory that once lived on the fringes of ...