"Abraham's Children": Jews All Over Globe Linked Genetically
(nablopomo day 4) It turns out the Jews are not only a religion, but were a genetically-linked ethnic group all along, as reported in Bloomberg BusinessWeek . Gil Atzmon, Li Hao, Itzik Pe-er, Edward Burns and others did the complex genetic analysis entitled Abraham's Children in the Genome Era at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. The purpose of the study was to find genetic markers for various diseases, such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer. But the study also showed that all groups of Jews are related to each other, and--despite the Arabs' contention that Jews have and had no connection to the land of Israel, rather that they are European--that Jews have Middle Eastern origins , and that the two groups, Middle Eastern and European Jews, apparently split off from each other approximately 2,500 years ago. Also read Aish's article about this discovery. It's interesting that the study shows that, despite some theories that Ashkenazic ...