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.

(JTA) — The genetic testing company 23andMe is facing a class action lawsuit over its security practices after hackers stole and published data about 1 million people with Jewish ancestry. The data ...

Organizations advocating for Jewish and Asian people immediately criticized presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after he spread a conspiracy theory at an event last week about the groups and ...

Connecticut’s attorney general is demanding answers from genetic testing company 23andMe after a hack exposed the data of people with Ashkenazi Jewish and Chinese ancestry. State Attorney General ...

New research has uncovered several novel genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD) that may be unique to Ashkenazi Jews. Investigators conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) for AD ...

About two-thirds of Jews today—or roughly ten million people—are Ashkenazi, referring to a recent origin from Eastern and Central Europe. They reside mostly in the United States and Israel. Ashkenazi ...

The Democratic presidential candidate has a long-running history of touting conspiracy theories about vaccines and, more recently, the COVID-19 virus Kaitlyn Huamani is an editorial intern at PEOPLE.

The idea that ethnic difference among Jews would disappear in the Israeli melting pot has not been borne out, experts say. (JTA) — Imagine if little was known about the extent of racial inequality in ...

(The Conversation) — “Tradition!” rings out the opening line of “Fiddler on the Roof,” the Broadway play that brought Jewish life to stages around the world. The 1964 musical gives audiences a window ...

Three months after announcing that EVP and CFO Anat Ashkenazi would be leaving for another opportunity, Eli Lilly and Company has named a replacement. The pharma giant promoted Lucas Montarce to lead ...

Samira Mehta receives funding from the Henry Luce Foundation for a project called Jews of Color: Histories and Futures. “Tradition!” rings out the opening line of “Fiddler on the Roof,” the Broadway ...