Haim Watzman It’s not the headline that’s remarkable, it’s the picture. The website of the great science journal that I occasionally do news pieces for, Nature, has a headline today that is already somewhat ho-hum. Jews Worldwide Share Genetic Ties! We’ve seen this before, in reports of studies of mitochondrial DNA (which is inherited only [...]
Science Jews
June 6th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Culture and Ideas
Tags: DNA·genetics·Jews·Science
The Haman Gene
March 10th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Culture and Ideas
Haim Watzman According to disturbing report in the latest issue of the British scientific journal Nature, a team of geneticists based at pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. has discovered that a strange set of markers shared by 90 percent of all Jews indicates widespread intermarriage with the Amalekite nation in the Middle Bronze Age. The [...]
Tags: Amalekites·genetics·humor·Jews·Purim

