The question of Jewish ancestry has been the subject of controversy for over two centuries and has yet to be resolved. The "Rhineland hypothesis" depicts Eastern European Jews as a "population isolate" that emerged from a small group of German Jews who migrated eastward and expanded rapidly. Alternatively, the "Khazarian hypothesis" suggests that Eastern European Jews descended from the Khazars...

While a resident in psychiatry at a large metropolitan hospital, I was called to the Emergency floor one evening to see a Hispanic lady, who was reported to have an anxiety attack. I found the lady very distraught, frightened, and shaking all over. Since she could not understand English, I asked her in Spanish what was wrong. She told me she had been feeling upset after a quarrel with her daugh...

This article discusses the outlook of Judeo-Persian Karaite authors on Rabbanite law and rabbinic literature based an exegetical corpus written in Early from eleventh century, which mostly remains manuscript form. A close examination this demonstrates authors’ complex attitude towards their contemporary Rabbanites early Jewish literature. By relying teachings community Jerusalem (the “Mourners ...