Abstract The role of Jewish activism in the transformative changes that have occurred West recent decades continues to be controversial. Here I respond several issues putatively related influence, particularly “default hypothesis” IQ and urban residency explain influence community enacting 1965 immigration law United States; other include ethnocentrism intermarriage whether diaspora Jews are hy...

Since 2015, Israeli-born German artist Shahak Shapira has initiated several satirical campaigns targeting antisemitism and racism in Germany the country’s relation to Holocaust. These interventions set Shapira’s career motion, 2019 he landed a slot on ZDF public broadcasting channel for talk show Shapira. The mocked far-right movements reminded viewers of history with Jews. His jokes about conc...

THE Jewish population of Israel is notable for its heterogeneous composition. Being an outcome of a mass immigration of Jews from all parts of the world, -mainly since the establishment of the State on May 15, 1948, it represents very different anthropological and genetical groups of the Jewish people. In this study the Jewish population of Israel is divided into two groups *(European and orien...

An unlettered Israelite should not marry a woman of priestly descent, since this constitutes in a way a profanation of the seed of Aaron. Should he marry her nevertheless, the Sages have said that the marriage will not prove successful, and he will die childless, or else he or she will come to an early death, or there will be strife between them. On the other hand, it is laudable and praisewort...