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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 373

Ashkenazi Jews

A sign is posted in front of the 23andMe headquarters on February 1, 2024, in Sunnyvale, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP)
September 18, 2024, 6:42 am
23andMe agrees to $30m settlement over data breach targeting Jewish and Chinese users
Genetic testing company settles with plaintiffs over breach that was revealed when hacker published link to database labeled ‘ashkenazi DNA Data of Celebrities’
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Howard Teich, the founding chair of the Manhattan Jewish Historical Initiative, speaks at a monument in The Battery that marks the Jewish arrival in New York in September 1654, New York, September 13, 2023. (Julia Gergely via JTA)
September 12, 2024, 9:51 pm
NYC Council to vote on recognizing anniversary of first Jewish arrivals in city
Bill aims to mark little-known Landing Day, marking date of 1654 arrival of first Jews in then-New Amsterdam, and ‘celebrate the continuing importance of the Jewish community’
By julia GERGELY
Dr. Or Kakhlon in his Jerusalem laboratory. (Courtesy)
March 17, 2024, 3:05 pm
Israeli scientists harness molecule to treat rare disease common in Ashkenazim
Research team isolates GHF-201 to fight APBD, a nervous system disorder mostly found in Jews of Eastern European descent, as patients eagerly await the green light for treatment
By Diana Bletter
23andMe headquarters in Silicon Valley, Sunnyvale, California, July 26, 2020. (Michael Vi/Shutterstock.com)
January 31, 2024, 6:01 pm
23andMe faces lawsuit as hackers sell information on users with Jewish heritage
DNA testing company 23andMe blames users’ recycled passwords for data breach that affected 6.9 million accounts; August lawsuit indicates other companies may be implicated
By Ariella Oldfield
Louise Levy was born in 1910 and grew up in Cleveland and New York City; Levy often ascribed her longevity to a daily glass of red wine and a low-cholesterol diet. (Photos courtesy Levy family, via Fox Funeral Home, via JTA)
July 29, 2023, 5:57 am
Louise Levy, ‘supercentenarian’ subject of Jewish longevity study, dies at 112
Levy was the oldest living resident of New York State and one of hundreds of Jews 95 and older recruited in 1998 for a genetic study of long-living Ashkenazi Jews
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Oved Hugi, who was fired as an adviser to Energy Minister Israel Katz over incendiary social media posts, takes part in a Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting in Jerusalem on June 26, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter; Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 26, 2023, 3:00 pm
Likud minister fires aide who praised Hitler, wished death on judicial officials
Israel Katz says wasn’t aware of Oved Hugi’s social media posts, which said Nazis should’ve killed those behind Netanyahu trial; ousted adviser still attends Knesset panel meeting
By Michael Bachner
Dr. Lalita Ramakrishnan, seen here with tanks of zebrafish, is a professor of microbiology at Cambridge University focused on tuberculosis. (Courtesy of MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)
May 6, 2023, 3:22 pm
Study: Gaucher disease, common among Ashkenazi Jews, protects against tuberculosis
Cambridge University team discovers that specific cellular-level lipids that accumulate in the genetic disease attack and kill deadly TB bacterium, hope to develop new treatment
By Renee Ghert-Zand
The Jewish cemetery in Worms, Germany, January 25, 2023. (Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images via JTA)
February 4, 2023, 2:40 pm
Germany celebrates UNESCO listing for birthplaces of Yiddish, Ashkenazi culture
Sites recognized include the oldest known in-situ Jewish burial ground in Europe; German president: Jewish history in Germany, both good and bad, goes far beyond Holocaust
By David I. Klein
The excavation at the medieval Jewish cemetery of Erfurt, Germany. (TLDA Ronny Krause)
November 30, 2022, 7:14 pm
Largest study of ancient DNA shows medieval Ashkenazi Jewry was surprisingly diverse
Scientists find that some 700 years ago, the Jews of Erfurt, Germany, formed 2 groups; rabbinic consultants stipulated that they study only loose teeth from pre-excavated skeletons
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
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Ashkenazium students in class.
September 19, 2022, 7:47 pm
An exhilarating dive into 1000 years of European Jewry in Budapest’s Ashkenazium
Intense, intellectual, immersive Jewish studies: Why the Ashkenazium is an increasingly attractive destination for an MA
By Aviva Blumstein
An estimated 400,000 Israelis demonstrate in the center of Tel Aviv to protest against rising housing prices and social inequalities in the Jewish state, September 3, 2011. (Jack Guez/AFP)
September 10, 2022, 11:35 am
Inequality between Israel’s Mizrahi, Ashkenazi Jews to be measured in new statistics
New policy will make it possible to learn far more than is currently known about gaps in wealth, education and other factors between Jews of different ethnicities
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Benny Landsman, 4, at Dayton Children’s Hospital April 8, 2021, before surgery to receive the first clinical trial of a new gene therapy for Canavan disease. (Courtesy of the Landsman family/ via Dayton Jewish Observer)
May 8, 2021, 3:46 am
New gene therapy trial in US offers hope for children with Canavan disease
4-year-old Benny Landsman is first to receive experimental procedure for condition that causes blindness, paralysis, seizures, and average life expectancy of under a decade
By Marshall Weiss
A pair of historical ram's-horn shofars from The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection. (Bradley Strauchen-Scherer)
January 5, 2021, 3:58 pm
Join a curator on a virtual tour of the Met’s Ashkenazi Jewish treasures
Starting January 5, NY’s Metropolitan Museum of Art opens its collection for an online glimpse at medieval European Jews, showing the tastes of owners and artists at the time
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Ellis Island in 1905. (Wikimedia Commons)
October 3, 2020, 3:49 pm
Jewish Americans changed their names, but not at Ellis Island
Evidence suggests Jews, members of other white ethnic groups changed their own names after arriving in America, dispelling popular trope of insensitive Ellis Island clerks
By Kirsten Fermaglich
A patient receives a mammogram. (iStock)
September 3, 2020, 1:52 am
Study gives life-saving impetus for Ashkenazi women to screen for breast cancer
‘This is absolute evidence that you could well be saving your life’ simply by getting screened, Jerusalem researchers report
By Nathan Jeffay
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