Based on the skeletal remains, scientists reconstructed the face of a male adult (left) and a child (right). Credit: Professor Caroline Wilkinson, Liverpool John Moores University (CN) — Skeletons ...

(The Conversation) — Most ideas about Jewish culture in the United States come from Ashkenazi traditions, but there’s a vast landscape of Jewish cultures around the world – and represented in the US. ...

Yiddish, which combined Hebrew with primarily Medieval German, was only spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. When they were busy “noshing” (eating) and “kvetching” (complaining). Sephardic Jews had a variety of ...

Existing predictive models overstate the risks for Ashkenazi Jewish women of developing breast cancer. That’s according to a paper led by University of Manchester researchers to be published next ...

So, has received a lot of discussion over the past few weeks on certain sectors of the Jewish blogosphere – far more than I expected. Much of this discussion has revolved around the fact that certain ...

Primary care doctors should assess women’s BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation risks if their ancestry is prone to BRCA mutations. That’s the recommendation by a U.S. task force announced in an editorial this ...

As an Ashkenazi Jewish journalist from New York, I haven’t lacked representation in American media. But I’ve never identified as much with any of Hollywood’s portrayals of Jewish women quite the way I ...

(JTA) — It’s been a busy couple of weeks for breast cancer. Of course, breast cancer is always busy, exerting its sneaky destruction through abnormal cell growth. But now it’s October and Breast ...

Samira Mehta receives funding from the Henry Luce Foundation for a project called Jews of Color: Histories and Futures. “Tradition!” rings out the opening line of “Fiddler on the Roof,” the Broadway ...

(JTA) Ashkenazi Jewish women should be screened for the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes linked to breast cancer. That’s the recommendation by a U.S. task force announced in an editorial in the Journal of the ...