The first big Nazi raid on the village of Le Chambon came in the summer of 1942. The villagers had already been warned about what would happen if they tried to hide Jews from the Nazis, and it was no surprise when squads of police descended on the village looking for the hundreds of Jews that were in fact hidden in the village and the surrounding countryside. The police vans were followed by a ...

Crohn disease (CD) exhibits a 2-4-fold increased frequency in Jews as compared with other ethnic/racial groups. Three coding variants of the NOD2/CARD15 have been reported as independent disease-predisposing mutations (DPMs), but these were found in only 30%-40% of patients with CD and could not account for all the linkage between CD and the IBD1 locus. The aim of the present study was to explo...

Considering the acceptance of culture as the principle predictorof understanding housing elements, including religious and behavioral patterns, is becoming increasingly important. This understanding can be clearly visualized in a city such as Kerman. Kerman is located in South-East of Iran andhas a diverse culture witha residential district in which Muslims, Zoroastrians, and Jews liveside b...

This article outlines a history of rulings and beliefs about addiction in Judaism, covering alcohol and substance use and addiction, in the context of a brief account of the development of the status of addiction. It examines the prevalence of alcohol and substance use and abuse among Jews, including a discussion of some of the difficulties in estimating prevalence and of factors involved in ch...

place called "East," became the destination for hundreds of transports of Jews dispatched from all over Europe. The exact date when the slaughter of Jews began in Auschwitz is not known. In their accounts and testimonies former prisoners and 55-men describe a number of cases in which transports ofJews were killed in the gas chambers at Crematorium I, but only in one instance was the autumn of 1...

BACKGROUND Age-related macular degeneration is the most common cause of legal blindness in the developed world including Israel. Ethnic background is a risk factor for advanced AMD in several populations, however the relative prevalence of this disease in different ethnic groups in the Middle East is unknown. OBJECTIVES To compare the prevalence of advanced AMD in Arabs and Jews in Israel. ...

Goodman and Miyazawa have written a comprehensive history of Japanese concepts of Jews. They describe the eventual fusion of Japan’s prolific perspectives about Jews: each strand became absorbed by the black hole of a rabid antisemitism. After presenting highlights of the book, this essay points to its shortcomings in delineating topics primary to comprehend Japanese antisemitism: the catastrop...

Jewish Rural Settlements in the Light of Peasant Survey 1814: The Perception Jews and Socio-Economic Reality at Beginning Nineteenth Century In 1814 government launched Survey, aimed collecting local elites’ opinions on best ways improving living conditions peasants. 140 responses, almost all them containing comments Jews, are a rich source knowledge about rural that period. This paper analyzes...

As China is the only country in the Far East world in which Jews have continually lived for over 1,000 years, "Chinese Judaism" -referring to the religious belief and practices of those Jews who had lived or are now living in China -is unique. Within this long history, a significant distinction must be made. Jews who came before modern times, before 1840, became part of Chinese society almost w...