Two fundamental misfortunes befell the Jewish people as a direct result of the destruction of the Second Temple and the subsequent exile: the codification and writing of the oral law into the form of the Mishna, and the establishment of the synagogue as the nuclear core of a Jewish community. The former resulted in the fossilization of a vibrant oral tradition meant to live and breathe with the...

In the course of defining mutations causing Tay-Sachs disease (TSD) in non-Jewish patients and carriers from the British Isles, we identified a guanine to adenine change (also previously described) in the obligatory GT sequence of the donor splice site at the 5' end of intron 9 of the hexosaminidase alpha peptide gene. Of 24 unrelated mutant chromosomes from 20 non-Jewish subjects (15 TSD carri...

Despite the cultural significance of dance in Jewish communities around world, research into Middle Eastern outside modern nation-state Israel is sorely under-researched. This article aims to help rectify this by focusing on Yemenite, Persian/Iranian, and Kurdish explores how these dancers have functioned been received within societies they a part of. The methods that gone are combination analy...

While the trait of absorption has received a considerable amount scientific study, states have been comparatively understudied and even less scholarly or attention paid to those that are cultivated within contemplative traditions Islam Judaism. This paper explores canonical descriptions in Islamic Jewish traditions, specifically highlighting how they often using sensory deprivation withdrawal, ...

Previous studies showed that factor XI (FXI) deficiency commonly observed in Ashkenazi Jews is caused by two similarly frequent mutations, type II (Glu117stop) and type III (Phe283Leu) with allele frequencies of 0.0217 and 0.0254, respectively. In Iraqi Jews, who represent the ancient gene pool of Jews, only the type II mutation was observed with an allele frequency of 0.0167. In this study we ...

Judaism has many traditions, customs, rules, and laws, which relate to the proper and ethical disposition of a decedent when a Medical Examiner/ Coroner is involved. In almost all United States jurisdictions, statutes mandate the need to determine the cause and manner of death (Coroners' Act PA Pl. 323, num. 130, section 1237). This article is a review of some religious writings, legal preceden...

The degree to which Jews are or are not integrated into non-Jewish societies and the consequences of this integration or the lack of it has been debated at least since the emancipation of Jews in the 18 th century. As a contribution to this discussion, the present paper examines the social integration of young adult Jews into American society. Findings are based on social network analysis of da...

We have tested 144 unrelated Jewish patients suffering from the classical form of cystic fibrosis. The patients were screened for a panel of 12 mutations including the six Ashkenazi founder mutations (DeltaF508, W1282X, N1303K, G542X, 3849 + 10 kb C-->T, 1717-1G > A) and six mutations that were found in non-Ashkenazi Jewish patients (S549R (T-->G), G85E, 405 + 1G-->A, W1089X, Y1092, and D1152H)...