Ashkenazi

The irony behind telling Jews to 'go back where they belong' - opinion

Efforts to rewrite Jewish history cannot erase the ancient bond between the Jewish people and the land of Israel.

New Haven Police Department screenshot of the alleged perpetrator.
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NHS to make Jewish BRCA genetic testing program permanent after successful pilot

 Shas leader MK Aryeh Deri and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen during a Shas party meeting, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on January 23, 2023.

Israel’s unholy alliance between religion and politics must end - opinion

Playwright Art Feinglass ahead of the premiere of his new play, Jacob's Stepladder

New comedy-drama Jacob’s Stepladder to premiere at Jerusalem’s Khan Theater


Fundamentally Freund: Don’t let Ladino die

Ladino and all that it embodies are part and parcel of our people’s long and winding journey on the historical stage.

An illustration of a Spanish Jew before a Grand Inquisitor

The lost Yemenite children and I

The word of abduction spread like wildfire throughout more than two hundred transit camps, including our camp, and reached my father, Baba.

Yemenite immigrants on a plane flying to Lod Airport from Aden on October 23, 1949

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein does not get to define Jewish identities

“I want white Jews to acknowledge that they are white. I want white Jews to acknowledge that Ashkenazi is not a synonym for white. I want white Jews to acknowledge that some Sephardim are white too.”

A MEMBER of the Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel wears a medallion with the Star of David as he takes part in a ceremony marking the holiday of Sigd.

Israeli TV show nominated for International Emmy Award

The Reshet comedy 'Nevsu' which was first broadcast in 2017, was nominated in the comedy category.

THE CAST of the Reshet series 'Nevsu.

Ashkenazim want to build museum of Ashkenazi culture

The Ashkenazim made great contributions in Jewish history, and brought their skills and talents to Israel. But does Israel need an Ashkenazi museum?

Jews in Europe

Orientalism and the invention of an Ashkenazi identity in Israel

How did “Ashkenazi” in Israel become synonymous with “liberal” and “Left,” and how has being “Ashkenazi” become a marker for being a “victim” of the Israeli Right?

AN ISRAELI flag near the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem’s Old City.

FDA approves drug for women with breast cancer caused by ‘Jewish gene’

Approximately 20 percent to 25 percent of patients with hereditary breast cancers and up to 10 percent of patients with any type of breast cancer have a BRCA mutation.

Breast cancer (illustrative photo)

Possible link found between Crohn’s and Parkinson’s among Ashkenazi Jews

This discovery could potentially help doctors develop new treatments for Crohn's which will target a particular Ashkenazi gene

Mount Sinai hospital campus in Manhattan.

How it really was: Israel’s first government vs ‘Fiddler on the Roof‘

Jews were in the forefront of modernization.

‘Tevye the Dairyman’ played by Chaim Topol in the popular 1971 film, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit, the minister of police, leaves Tel Mond Prison on November 2, 1949, before pardoning prisoners in a general amnesty

Having words, calling names

Often words that entered British English a long time ago, when some Jews were criminals and others became lords.

‘Two Gentilas’ (from a painting by Gentile Bellini)