A former skinhead converted to Judaism after learning of his Jewish ancestry through DNA testing. As a teenager, Frank Meeink was an infamous neo-Nazi, and he spent some time in prison.

A rabbi reacted to the identification of his brother's remains, which were discovered in a field and then stored in the ...

(JTA) — The maternal ancestry of Ashkenazi Jews comes mainly from Europe ... Portugal and the United States that looked at mitochondrial DNA, which is contained in the cytoplasm of the egg ...

They were Crypto Jews who in traveling across the Atlantic ... to view the entire genome for large chunks of DNA that indicate shared ancestry. “Statistically it is very difficult to see it ...

On 22 February 1498, a well-weathered mid-40s Christopher Columbus ordained in writing that his estate in the Italian port ...

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 ...

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The team collected DNA samples from Bantu (African), Yemeni ... Y chromosomal type that appears to be a signature of Jewish ancestry. Perhaps even more striking is the fact that this Cohen ...