The law and the economy are deeply influenced by the legal tradition or origin, which is the bundle of institutions shaping lawmaking and dispute adjudication. The two principal legal traditions, common law and civil law, have been transplanted through colonization and occupation to the vast majority of the jurisdictions in the world by a group of European countries. Here, I illustrate a novel ...

Since the establishment of Israel sex differentials in the life expectancy at birth exhibited by Israeli Jews have been very low in comparison to other countries. This paper investigates the age and sex structure of sex differentials in mortality among Israeli Jews comparing them to the populations of Western and Eastern European countries. It also explores the similarities and differences betw...

Results from over a dozen prostate cancer susceptibility genome-wide scans, encompassing some 1,500 hereditary prostate cancer families, indicate that prostate cancer is an extremely heterogeneous disease with multiple loci contributing to overall susceptibility. In an attempt to reduce locus heterogeneity, we performed a genomewide linkage scan for prostate cancer susceptibility genes with 36 ...

Jews played an important role in Polish society for over 600 years. From 1918 to 1939 they constituted over 10% of society and 20% of doctors were of Jewish origin. Jewish communities founded their own hospitals, among which The Old Order (Jewish) Hospital in Warsaw was the largest and the most important. The Old Order (Jewish) Hospital in Warsaw was founded in 1799 on the initiative of a Jewis...

We used a combined approach of homozygosity mapping and whole exome sequencing (WES) to search for the genetic cause of autosomal recessive retinitis pigmentosa (arRP) in families of Yemenite Jewish origin. Homozygosity mapping of two arRP Yemenite Jewish families revealed a few homozygous regions. A subsequent WES analysis of the two index cases revealed a shared homozygous novel nucleotide de...

In the interwar period the eugenic ideas gained the status of a scientific theory and become attractive to a wide range of physicians. Among them were doctors of Jewish origin who perceived eugenics as a tool in the fight for biological rebirth of the Jewish nation. Polish-Jewish psychiatrist Raphael Becker (1891-1939?), the author of dozens of scientific papers, was the most famous eugenist am...

The field of mystical and meditative research lacks a basic typology delineating the varied genres characteristics experience practices that may be correlated to those. Such state hinders comparative study mysticism meditation through different philosophical, religious spiritual traditions, or along chronological development in single tradition. In this article, I introduce phenomenological typ...

This work analyzes the processes undergone by new generations of Argentines Jews Syrian origin in Buenos Aires, from 60s until today. Particularly, trajectories those who are distanced orthodox beliefs and predominant practices central community entities. We describe a broad spectrum life stories collected through ninety interviews, that contradict rooted presumptions supposed homogeneity origi...