Rebecca Taylor of LifeNews.com in Jerusalem: In genetics, being Jewish is not a religious preference but an ethnicity. Clinical genetics labs won’t ask you if you are Christian, Muslim, or Hindu, but they will surely ask you if you are Jewish. Why? Because for many reasons including societal pressures and internal preferences, Jews having been intermarrying with other Jews for hundreds of years. One particular subset of Jews called Ashkenazi Jews are descended from Jews in the Rhine area of Europe. Ashkenazi Jews are surprisingly genetically homogeneous and now make up 80% of all Jews worldwide. More on this “beyond insidious” practice here.
