Why Jewish History Is So Hard to Write

Re:Why Jewish History Is So Hard to Write by vasilipupkin on Thursday April 05, 2018 @02:15PM (#16767459)

come on, you are engaging in pointless sophistry. Common ancestry doesn't mean that it involves 100% guaranteed common transfer of genes every time - it just means that common transfer of genes was quite likely to take place at least relatively often. In the case of Ashkenazi Jews, we know it did.

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Re:Why Jewish History Is So Hard to Write by jklinger410 on Thursday April 05, 2018 @02:53PM (#16767859)

I'm just trying to point out that you don't have to share genes with an ethnic group to belong to it.

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Re:Why Jewish History Is So Hard to Write by vasilipupkin on Thursday April 05, 2018 @03:50PM (#16768297)

this is not about "have to" or "don't have to", but about likelihood. Likelihood is high enough that they do genetic testing on ashkenazi jews.

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