The new findings contradict previous assertions that Ashkenazi mitochondrial lineages originated in the Near East, or from mass conversions to Judaism in the Khazar kingdom, an empire in the north ...

This pattern maps onto Israel’s electoral landscape ... with findings that Ashkenazi Jews are vastly overrepresented in university faculties and among academic degree holders.

(JTA) — The maternal ancestry of Ashkenazi Jews comes mainly from Europe, a new study shows. The findings, published this week in the journal Nature Communications, fly in the face of the ...