richards | September 5, 2015
Members of the Jewish community who trace their roots to Central or Eastern Europe are known as Ashkenazi Jews. Although today members of this community are found around the world, Ashkenazi Jews for centuries were a geographically isolated population.
richards | September 5, 2015
Ashkenazi Jewish Genetic Diseases: 19 Disease Panel Ashkenazi Jewish Genetic Diseases: 38 Disease Panel Sephardic/Mizrahi Jewish Genetic Diseases There are a numberof genetic disease for which persons of Jewish heritage (at least one grandparent) are more likely to be carriers of than the general population. Carriers are healthy individuals, unaffected by the disease for which they carry
richards | September 5, 2015
The Origins of Sephardim and Ashkenazim Two Sephardic Jews with an Ashkenazi in Jerusalem, 1895 The two main pillars on which all of Jewish scholarship rests are Rashi and the Rambam (a/k/a Maimonides). They differed not only on issues of philosophy but in overall style and approach. Part of the reason for this is that Rashi was Ashkenazi and the Rambam was Sephardi.
simmons | September 5, 2015
Arutz Sheva met with Yeshayahu Yechieli, the director of the NAALE Elite-Academy program, as he greeted new participants. The NAALE program, which was established in 1992 as a joint initiative of the Prime Ministers Office and the Ministry of Education, invites Jewish high school students from around the world to study and to finish high school in Israel
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