This morning, at the Capitol, Johnson walked over to his Senate Finance Committee colleague Bill Cassidy, a doctor and a ...

Sen. Michael Bennet accused Kennedy of making the statement during his Senate confirmation hearing to become the nation's top ...

Then, most Jews were part of the educated and largely secular Ashkenazi community, although a minority population of the older Sephardic Jewish families remained prominent. Beginning in 1881, a wave ...

The mutation is found in four out of 10 people with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. Out of the 11,000 people tested during the new initiative, 235 people have reportedly been identified with the mutation.

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Ethnicity can play a role in the odds of a person having these changes to the gene – for example people four in every 10 people who have an Ashkenazi Jewish background have been found to carry ...

Irish Chief Rabbi Yoni Wieder warned that Higgins' speech may "ring hollow for many Irish Jews" after he had "neglected even to acknowledge the scourge of contemporary antisemitism in Ireland.

Jews in Ireland are up in arms over a planned appearance by Irish President Michael Higgins to mark the country’s Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony later this month. Higgins has been harshly ...

It's a rapidly changing situation - these maps and pictures show the scale of ... as these before-and-after photos demonstrate. The Jewish Temple in Pasadena was destroyed by the Eaton fire.

The chairman of the European Jewish Association (EJA) has called on governments across Europe to take immediate action against a precipitous rise in antisemitism that he said was pushing thousands ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Rabbi Menachem Margolin, Chairman of the European Jewish Association, attends a Gala dinner during a two-day ...