richards | July 23, 2015
Home > Articles > Why is the IQ of Ashkenazi Jews so High? - twenty possible explanations Posted: Fri, June 07, 2013 | By: IQ by Hank Pellissier Ashkenazi Jews are smart
richards | July 22, 2015
The Khazars (Turkish: Hazarlar, Tatar: Xzrlr, Hebrew: (Kuzarim),[7]Arabic: (khazar), Russian: , Persian: , Greek: , Latin: Gazari[8][9]/Cosri[10]/Gasani[11][12]) were a semi-nomadic Turkic people who created what for its duration was the most powerful polity to emerge from the breakup of the western Turkish steppe empire, known as the Khazar Khanate or Khazaria.[13] Astride a major artery of commerce between northern Europe and southwestern Asia, Khazaria became one of the foremost trading emporia of the medieval world, commanding the western marches of the Silk Road and played a key commercial role as a crossroad between China, the Middle East, and Kievan Rus'.[14][15] For some three centuries (c.
richards | July 18, 2015
Ashkenazi Jews ( Y'hudey Ashkenaz in Ashkenazi Hebrew) Total population 10[1]11.2[2] million Regions with significant populations United States 56 million[3] Israel 2.8 million[1][4] Russia 194,000500,000 Argentina 300,000 United Kingdom ~ 260,000 Canada ~ 240,000 France 200,000 Germany 200,000 Ukraine 150,000 Australia 120,000 South Africa 80,000 Belarus 80,000 Hungary 75,000 Chile 70,000 Belgium 30,000 Brazil 30,000 Netherlands 30,000 Moldova 30,000 Poland 25,000 Mexico 18,500 Sweden 18,000 Latvia 10,000 Romania 10,000 Austria 9,000 New Zealand 5,000 Azerbaijan 4,300 Lithuania 4,000 Czech Republic 3,000 Slovakia 3,000 Estonia 1,000 Languages Historical: Yiddish Modern: Local languages, primarily: English, Hebrew, Russian Religion Judaism, some secular, irreligious Related ethnic groups Sephardi Jews, Mizrahi Jews, other Jewish ethnic divisions, Samaritans,[5]Assyrians,[5][6]Kurds,[7]Arabs, other Levantines,[5][6][8][9]Italians, Iberians and Greeks[10][11][12][13][14] Ashkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or simply Ashkenazim (Hebrew: , Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation: [aknazim], singular: [aknazi], Modern Hebrew: [akenazim, akenazi]; also Y'hudey Ashkenaz, lit. "The Jews of Germany"),[15] are a Jewish ethnic division whose ethnogenesis and emergence as a distinct community of Jews coalesced in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the 1st millennium.[16] The traditional language of Ashkenazi Jews consisted of various dialects of Yiddish.
richards | July 18, 2015
Ofra Haza's husband found dead, police suspect drug overdose By Amit Ben-Aroya Ha'aretz Correspondent and wires Doron Ashkenazi - widower of Israel's most successful international singer, Ofra Haza, who died of AIDS in February 2000 - died Saturday night of an overdose of crystallized cocaine, police said. His autopsy today may shed a light on Haza's death as well.
richards | July 18, 2015
Catherine Afarian calls herself a love child of the 70s. Her mother discovered that she was pregnant after she had broken off a relationship of less than a year
richards | July 12, 2015
Are most modern Jews primarily of European or Middle and Near Eastern ancestry?That controversial subjectat the heart of the debate over the historical right ofreturn claimed by many religious Jewsis back in the headlines with the releaseof a massive new study published in Nature Communications challenging someestablished views of the origins of European Jewry. The total Ashkenazi population is estimated at around 8 million people. Theestimated world Jewish population is about 13 million
richards | July 8, 2015
Alternative title: Ashkenazim Ashkenazi,plural Ashkenazim, from Hebrew Ashkenaz (Germany), member of the Jews who lived in the Rhineland valley and in neighbouring France before their migration eastward to Slavic lands (e.g., Poland, Lithuania, Russia) after the Crusades (11th13th century) and their descendants.
richards | April 11, 2015
Doctors have long recognized that women with mutations in two particular genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 have a higher risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Now they are starting to figure out which mutations are worse than others
richards | April 5, 2015
This Wednesday, March 18, 2015 photo, shows Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu election campaign poster lying among ballot papers at his party's election headquarters in Tel Aviv. Israel's visceral election campaign has exposed a rift that many here thought had long subsided _ the deep-seated schism between Jews of European and Middle Eastern descent
richards | April 5, 2015
By ARON HELLER Associated Press ROSH HA'AYIN, Israel (AP) - Israel's visceral election campaign has exposed a rift that many here thought had long subsided - the deep-seated schism between Jews of European and Middle Eastern descent. Mizrahi, or Middle Eastern, Jews heavily backed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party, while Ashkenazi, or European, Jews mostly identified with the opposition Zionist Union
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