[Pharmboy]

Good summary of where this subject is evolving. What this teaches has ramifications to all humans and not just Jews...

[Pharmboy]

Combo ping for those with genetic, Jewish and humanity interests (or even all three).

[Marie]

In the absence of rabbis to perform conversions, they married local women who, while consenting to live as Jews, were not halakhically Jewish.

That is an unproven assumption which can never be validated with DNA evidence alone. Show me the historical doccuments.

[martin_fierro]

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[Yaelle]

save for later

[afraidfortherepublic]

It took 8 years to figure that out? I would have guessed that before reading the article. Isn't it the same for other populations, as well? (Except for the part about putting up later barriers against marriage outside the clan.)

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Self-ping to Commentary.

[SunkenCiv]

Geneticists Report Finding Central Asian Link to Levites
New York Times | September 27, 2003 | Nicholas Wade
Posted on 09/26/2003 8:08:09 PM PDT by Destro
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/990414/posts

The Lemba (The Black Jews Of Southern Africa)
The Free Man Institute | 3-14-2005
Posted on 03/14/2005 6:53:09 PM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1362872/posts

The Genetic Bonds Between Kurds and Jews
Barzan (Kurdish Newspaper) | 4 May 06 | Kevin Brook
Posted on 05/04/2006 7:03:48 AM PDT by white trash redneck
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1626606/posts

After millennia in India, lost tribe returns to Israel
Asia News | 09-30-2006 | Asia News
Posted on 09/30/2006 2:42:52 PM PDT by Traianus
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1711367/posts

Russian archaeologists find long-lost Jewish capital
AFP | Sept. 3, 2008
Posted on 09/03/2008 9:26:26 AM PDT by Alouette
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073813/posts

[SunkenCiv]

I don't know what anyone is talking about, so here's a picture of a rabbi with a pancake on his yarmulke:

[Jessarah]

So...does this mean they’ll never be able to find the original mtDNA genetic code for Jewish women? Seems like there would be some group of women somewhere who’ve stayed Jewish for a few thousand years since Aaron. I guess the problem would be figuring out which is the “pure” strand and which isn’t.

[wardaddy]

the purity of Jewish blood is sometimes extremely contentious for some if not many Jews....especially chicken soup mamas who you mess with at yer peril I’ve learned the hard way

i have often found it hypocritical that many Jews obsess with who’s Jewish enough and get really riled over the Khazar claims

but yet, many Jews are at the vanguard of racial mixing and the dilution of anyone else’s heritage....advocacy wise....the anti-pluralist message applied to race and ethnicity

hell, we’re all hypocrites sometimes I reckon...I know I am

I think Jewish pride in their blood heritage staying intact in laudable but it brings up the old goose and gander argument for me anyhow.

I never really noticed this until I lived in NYC, down South it was different with the tribe.

[Eleutheria5]

This discipline also ought to establish who is and is not a descendant of King David, and of the tribe of Levi, both very important sub-groups within the Jewish Community. Conceivably, the entire Jewish nation could be sorted into the original 12 tribes. Only wild cards are the mideival Khazar empire of Eastern Europe, whose king and a great number of subjects converted to Judaism in the 11th Century C.E., as well as the aforementioned wandering bachelors and their shiksas.