Ashkenazi Jews

FDA approves drug for women with breast cancer caused by BRCA, the ‘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, which disproportionately affects Askenazi Jewish women.

January 14, 2018 2:35 pm

Prominent scholars blast theory tracing Ashkenazi Jews to Turkey

Critics say the sensational study by an Israel-born geneticist omitted factors that refute its findings, including the similarity between European and Middle Eastern Jews.

May 3, 2016 10:17 am

Aliyah debate exposes French Jewry’s internal fault lines

A push to keep French Jews from fleeing anti-Semitic violence is exposing tensions between integration-minded progressives and a more insular Sephardic majority.

March 18, 2015 2:47 pm