Jews: A religious group, people or race? [View all]

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Prof. Harry Ostrer has published a new book that explores the genetic and environmental basis of the Jewish people.

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
08/26/2012 02:37

As Diaspora Jews increasingly assimilate and intermarry with gentiles, and their Israeli counterparts marry Jews whose forebears came from the four corners of the earth, a window of opportunity to study Jewish genetics is gradually closing.

In another generation or two, it may be possible only to know whether one bears a “Jewish genome” rather than identify the different genetic threads that once bound them together.

http://www.jpost.com/Sci-Tech/Article.aspx?id=282584

Cross-post from the Religion Group. The headline is from the newspaper.