(JTA) — Adolf Hitler may have had both Jewish and African roots, DNA testing shows. Samples taken from some of the German Fuhrer’s relatives show that he was likely descended from some of the ...

DNA tests on the Lemba tribe of central Zimbabwe and northern South Africa show that they are of Jewish or Semitic origin, the BBC reported. (JTA) — DNA tests on the Lemba tribe of central ...

In Zimbabwe and South Africa, the Lemba have kept Jewish traditions for centuries—observing Shabbat, keeping kosher, and preserving an unbroken lineage. Yet their isolation from the wider Jewish world ...

The team collected DNA samples from Bantu (African), Yemeni (Arab), and Sephardic Jews and Azhkenazi Jews (including Cohanim from both communities) to compare the amount of similarity that existed ...

A century ago, popular wisdom held that Jews were a race with a distinctive ... pointed to a line of descent originating in southern Africa with migration through the Middle East and Eastern ...

In 1999, wealthy Jewish donors founded something called Birthright ... We know from historians and more recent DNA research, though, where people came from. We know their ancestral lands.

What is equally striking is that this genetic signature of the Cohanim is rarely found outside of Jewish populations. Gene-scan outputs of microsatellite DNA analysis of genetic samples taken from ...

“Keeping a low profile is not part of our DNA as a community,” Kransdorff ... “The horror is overwhelming,” Feldman wrote in the South African Jewish Report on Thursday about the visit ...