Ashkenazi Jews: The Most Genetically Intelligent People On Earth The highest IQ of any ethnic group is Ashkenazi Jews, averaging between 112-115. In comparison, the average IQ of Europeans is 100. (NOTE* Researchers at Harvard have also tried to test the IQ of monkeys, but ran into trouble...
Beshalach. The Torah reading of the week contains the Song of the sea (Exodus 15:1–18). ... There is an Ashkenazi custom to feed wild birds on this Shabbat, in recognition of their help to Moses in the Desert. Why do we feed the birds on Shabbat Shirah? So they scattered some ma...
and commemorates the forty years of exile the Jews had after escaping from Egypt. There are several different names for the holiday. It can be called the Day of Booths, or the Feast of the Tabernacles. It also may be termed The Days of our Rejoicing. Ashkenazi Jews often pronounce the ...
As mentioned earlier, the word “tchotchke” originates from Yiddish, a language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews in Europe. Yiddish itself is a blend of German, Hebrew, Slavic languages, and Aramaic, which naturally influenced how its words traveled and adapted through different cultures. Duri...
Julianna Margulies is featured in: She is ofAshkenazi Jewish Ashkenazi Jewish Ashkenazi Jews (plural Ashkenazim) arethe descendants of Jews who migrated into northern France and Germany around 800–1000, and later into Eastern Europe. Among the Ashkenazim there are a number of major subgroups: Yekk...
They were discovered by Dr Barzilai’s team while studying the DNA of 500 Ashkenazi Jews with an average age of 100. The chances of living that long are one in 10,000 but the group, which shared relatively few common ancestors, was 20 times more likely to hit the entury. Dr Barzilai ...
Ashkenazi Jews, for example, have several genetic mutations that cause them to have one of the highest risks of bowel cancer among any ethnic group in the world. African Americans also demonstrate a higher risk, although the reason for this is yet to be established....
We tested the hypothesis that Ashkenazi Jewish (AJ) patients who have dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and carry glucocerebrosidase (GBA) mutations will have verbal fluency deficits different from those found in Alzheimer's disease (AD), whereas AJ patients with DLB who have no GBA ...
Ashkenazi Jews and Sephardic/Mizrahi Jews consider each other different, but this difference is several order lower when they look at Gentiles. There is black and white and then, there is mauve and grey. I can however understand the specific practice you are referring to. Not too long ago, ...
This type of hemophilia affects both males and females at equal rates, and it is more common among Ashkenazi Jews, affecting about 8% of people in this ethnic group.Acquired hemophilia, which is caused by a malfunction of the immune system rather by genetic mutations, is very rare — ...