Levy was the oldest living resident of New York State and one of hundreds of Jews 95 and older recruited in 1998 for a genetic study of long-living Ashkenazi Jews
Israel Katz says wasn't aware of Ofer Hugi's social media posts, which said Nazis should've killed those behind Netanyahu trial; ousted adviser still attends Knesset panel meeting
Cambridge University team discovers that specific cellular-level lipids that accumulate in the genetic disease attack and kill deadly TB bacterium, hope to develop new treatment
Sites recognized include the oldest known in-situ Jewish burial ground in Europe; German president: Jewish history in Germany, both good and bad, goes far beyond Holocaust
Scientists find that some 700 years ago, the Jews of Erfurt, Germany, formed 2 groups; rabbinic consultants stipulated that they study only loose teeth from pre-excavated skeletons
New policy will make it possible to learn far more than is currently known about gaps in wealth, education and other factors between Jews of different ethnicities
4-year-old Benny Landsman is first to receive experimental procedure for condition that causes blindness, paralysis, seizures, and average life expectancy of under a decade
Starting January 5, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens its collection for an online glimpse at medieval European Jews, showing the tastes of owners and artists at the time
Evidence suggests Jews, members of other white ethnic groups changed their own names after arriving in America, dispelling popular trope of insensitive Ellis Island clerks
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