Wednesday, February 24, 2016
The National Identity of Judaism Proved by DNA
Adam Eliyahu Berkkowitz Article
Nadene Goldfoot
Lifted from: Are the Jews of Today Really Descendants of Abraham Who Should Inherit the Land?
Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/62154/jews-today-really-descendants-abraham-who-should-inherit-land-jewish-world/#cBUm4CtooeGb6dHQ.99 by Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz
Nadene Goldfoot
Lifted from: Are the Jews of Today Really Descendants of Abraham Who Should Inherit the Land?
Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/62154/jews-today-really-descendants-abraham-who-should-inherit-land-jewish-world/#cBUm4CtooeGb6dHQ.99 by Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz
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Modern DNA Studies Prove Jews are the
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The problem is, the Nazis tried to kill us all because of who we were. An Israeli historian , Shlomo Sand, has gone overboard trying to disprove such an idea, just using religion as the item that binds us together. He wrote a book to do this and knows nothing about genetics with its DNA information that has appeared. It's most exciting to realize, as we have always thought, that our roots came from Abraham and Moses in the Middle East, specifically from Israel and that the Arabs were our distant cousins as the Bible says and even that someday we would come together again in an in-gathering.
"In 2010, Harry Ostrer, a medical geneticist from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, published a study concluding that many “geographically and culturally distant Jews still have more genes in common than they do with non-Jews around them,” and that such genes were of “Levantine origin”. Ostrer said, “I would hope that these observations would put the idea that Jewishness is just a cultural construct to rest.”
Sand replied to the genetic study’s refutation by saying, “Hitler would certainly have been very pleased.”
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| I'm proud to say that Bennett and my brother and our 1st cousin have some matching genes with Bennett as 4th and 5th cousins. My son and I match 3 of his family as 4th and 5th cousins; my brother matches 4 of his members and my cousin matches 6 of his family members., and my daughter in law matches 1 of his family members. They are our distant mishpukhah! |
Breaking Israel News spoke to Bennett Greenspan about the genetic aspect of Judaism and how it relates to the Jewish claim to the Land of Israel. Greenspan founded Family Tree DNA, the first American company to offer genealogical DNA testing directly to the general public, and his conclusions are based on a database of hundreds of thousands of genetic samples .
“On the Y-DNA test that tracks the paternal line, 75-85% of Jews have a Semitic ancestry, that is to say they are from the Middle East. ‘Semitic’ may also include Turkey and Northern Syria, going back 3,000 years,” Greenspan explained.
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He said that according to the genetic results, “I am a Jewish Arab. The world has Christian Arabs, Muslim Arabs, and Jewish Arabs. The difference is that 2,000 years ago, the Muslim Arabs didn’t yet have a religion, and the Jewish Arabs did. Our Temple was defiled, the Jews revolted, and we got beat. The Jews were exiled from our land by the superpower of the day.” (Moses lived 1391-1271 BCE); Jesus lived ( c 7 BCE-29 CE); (Muhammad lived 570-632 CE).
“Shlomo Sand is wrong when he says that Jews are no more related to other Jews in other places in the world than to Christians or Muslims,” Greenspan stated unequivocally to Breaking Israel News. “The genetic facts do not at all support that theory, and do support the opposite. The genetic evidence is strikingly clear.”
Sand’s premise, even when he wrote the book, was outlandish to many critics. His reason for taking such an untenable stance was that he believed a common ethnic basis for Judaism “nourishes anti-Semitism”. However, by denying Jewish ethnicity in an attempt to prevent anti-Semitism, Sand’s thesis has become a battle cry for haters of Israel. Sand is "Tel Aviv University historian Shlomo Sand. In his international best-seller, The Invention of the Jewish People (2008), he asserts that the Jews of today did not originate in the Mediterranean and that a “nation-race” of Jews never existed." He is a man trying to lessen anti-Semitism by using this theory but in the end has made it worse. Besides that, it simply isn't true. Read the article listed below to see Berkowitz's explanation.
Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/62154/jews-today-really-descendants-abraham-who-should-inherit-land-jewish-world/#cBUm4CtooeGb6dHQ.99
The creation of the modern State of Israel has once again made Judaism a national identity and not just a religion limited to the occasional visit to the synagogue. The scattered children of Abraham have gathered together as an unmistakeable result of God’s covenant. Science has proven this to be undeniably true.
Resource: http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/62154/jews-today-really-descendants-abraham-who-should-inherit-land-jewish-world/?utm_source=Breaking+Israel+News&utm_campaign=bf765b5c66-BIN_morning_2_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b6d3627f72-bf765b5c66-83518689#GBq0OTmg1TYBdZoM.97Labels: Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Bennett Greenspan, dna, geneticist, Harry Os(Photo: API Flickr/Wikimedia Commons)trer, Israel, Jews, Judaism, Shlomo Sand
