Alphabet announced Wednesday that Anat Ashkenazi, who's worked at Eli Lilly since 2001, will be the company's new chief financial officer.

Ashkenazi is the name for a group of people of Jewish descent who lived in western Germany in the medieval era. In later centuries, Ashkenazi Jewish people migrated elsewhere, including Eastern Europe ...

For Jews, awareness of our indigeneity to Israel is of paramount importance. It is a vital reminder of who we are, where we come from, and what our ancestors died to defend. It is the antidote to ...

Hackers have compiled a giant apparent list of people with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry after taking that information from the genetic testing service 23andMe, which is now being shared on the internet.

Some 3.5 million or 40 percent of Ashkenazi Jews are descended from just four “founding mothers” who lived in Europe 1,000 years ago. The mothers were part of a small group who founded the Ashkenazi ...

Here is a list of diseases that are often screened for in Jewish couples who are planning to have children because of an elevated risk of carrying a recessive mutation. Researchers have identified ...

This contrast is comedy gold, and Modi Rosenfeld has captured it perfectly in his stand-up. Sephardic Jews, he jokes, call ...

My great, great grandpa, Solomon Calvo and his friend, Jacob Policar, were the first Sephardic Jews in Seattle, immigrating from the island of Marmara in Turkey. But their welcome in the local Jewish ...

According to research from 2014 the journal Nature Communications, it turns out that almost all Jewish people of European descent are linked to a group of 330 people. According to the study — where ...

The origins of Ashkenazi Jews remain highly controversial. Like Judaism, mitochondrial DNA is passed along the maternal line. Its variation in the Ashkenazim is highly distinctive, with four major and ...

Ashkenazi Jews hail from Eastern Europe—”Ashkenaz” is the Hebrew word for Germany—and comprise the bulk of the Jewish population in the US. Their compatriots are Sephardi Jews, who lived in Spain ...