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    Genetic Test May Soon Tell You if You’re Really Jewish

    Who’s a Jew? There’s an app for that.

    byLiel Leibovitz
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    Looking for the Ancient Canaanites? Try Lebanon.

    DNA studies suggest that the ancient biblical people, long thought extinct, might have settled in Sidon

    bySophie Aroesty
  • DNA. (Shutterstock)
    DNA. (Shutterstock)
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    Study Says All Ashkenazi Jews Are 30th Cousins

    Researchers identify 350-person founding population of Ashkenazi Jewry

    byStephanie Butnick
  • A picture shows a street near Spitafields market where Jack the Ripper killed most of his victims in London. (ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP/Getty Images)
    A picture shows a street near Spitafields market where Jack the Ripper killed most of his victims in London. (ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP/Getty Images)
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    New Book Claims Jack the Ripper Was Jewish

    DNA said to link Polish barber Aaron Kosminski to gruesome 1888 murders

    byStephanie Butnick
  • Pigs.(iStockphoto)
    Pigs.(iStockphoto)
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    DNA Reveals Pigs in Israel Came From Europe

    Porcine population likely imported by ancient Europeans, study shows

    byStephanie Butnick
  • People in Athens walk past newspapers reporting on the story a 4-year-old girl reportedly named Maria, who was found living with a Roma couple in central Greece, on October 21, 2013.(Milos Bicanski/Getty Images)
    People in Athens walk past newspapers reporting on the story a 4-year-old girl reportedly named Maria, who was found living with a Roma couple in central Greece, on October 21, 2013.(Milos Bicanski/Getty Images)
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    Two Roma Child-Trafficking Sagas Underscore a Larger Context of European Prejudice

    Old, familiar attitudes are rekindled in the wake of the cases of ‘Maria’ in Greece and a Roma girl in Dublin

    byRachel Shukert
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    (Robert King/Newsmakers/Getty Images)
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    A Case for Genetic Jewishness

    In the book Legacy, geneticist Harry Ostrer argues that Jewishness is biological, not just cultural

    byIvan Oransky
  • A billboard urges women to donate their eggs to childless couples trying for a family.(Johnny Eggitt/AFP/Getty Images)
    A billboard urges women to donate their eggs to childless couples trying for a family.(Johnny Eggitt/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Why I Couldn’t Donate My Eggs

    Selling my eggs to help a childless couple seemed like an easy, uncomplicated way to make money. Then I thought about my own extended family.

    bySimi Lampert
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