A Mendelian genetic disorder which is caused by more than a single genetic factor, is defined as genetically heterogeneous. In inter-locus heterogeneity, defects at different genes are responsible for the disease, whereas in intra-locus heterogeneity, different mutant alleles of the same gene, cause the disease. This study analyzed the genetic heterogeneity in two genetic diseases in the Jewish...

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...

While Judaism espouses the infinite value of human life, Judaism recognizes that all life is finite and, as such, its teachings are compatible with the principles of palliative medicine and end-of-life care as they are currently practiced. Jewish medical ethics as derived from Jewish law, has definitions for the four cardinal values of secular medical ethics: autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficen...

1 Assistant Professor, Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Department of General Dentistry, Creighton University School of Dentistry, Omaha, NE, 2 Chief, Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Department of Dental Medicine, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY, 3 Professor, Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Department of General Dentistry, Creighton ...

Certain autosomal recessive disease conditions are more prevalent in individuals of Eastern European Jewish (Ashkenazi) descent. Previously, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommended that individuals of Eastern European Jewish ancestry be offered carrier screening for Tay-Sachs disease, Canavan disease, and cystic fibrosis as part of routine obstetric care. Based on th...

This paper follows the social and political history of OZE, the Society for the Preservation of the Health of the Jewish Population, in the interwar period. We focus on two campaigns against typhus and favus, the first two disease oriented efforts by OZE, in order to reconstruct the operational approaches, considerations and obstacles faced by OZE as a Jewish organization and transnational part...

This paper takes a broad and novel approach to analysing the Iranian Jewish community of Iran, both as a distinct group and as a constituent part of Iran’s wider population sharing its national culture. The goal was to find a new way of addressing the topic, avoiding many ambiguities, and bringing all discourse back to its starting point: Iranian identity. If we identify Persian roots as the fo...

For food security issues or global climate change, there is a growing need for large-scale knowledge of soil organic carbon (SOC) contents in agricultural soils. To capture and quantify SOC at field scale, Earth Observation (EO) can be valuable data source area-wide mapping. The extraction exposed soils from EO challenging due to temporal permanent vegetation cover, the influence moisture condi...

One of the distinctive features of multilingual Jewish cultures is the interpretation of a sacred Hebrew signifier by its phonic identity or proximity to a signifier in another language. This essay demonstrates the cultural creativity that might inhere in such “mistakes,” providing examples from three different periods—rabbinic, Hebrew-Yiddish European culture, and modern Israeli Hebrew. I n th...

Adults and children seem to essentialize certain social categories. Three studies investigated whether, and how, exposure to ethnic diversity affects this bias. Participants were 516 kindergarten, 2nd grade, and 6th grade Israeli Jewish and Arab children attending regular (mono-cultural) or integrated schools. Study 1 revealed that exposure increased the salience of ethnicity, especially for Je...