Word: ashkenazy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stocks are doing O.K., but my gene portfolio took a big hit recently. Doctors at Johns Hopkins announced that they have discovered a genetic mutation in Ashkenazi Jews that doubles the risk of colon cancer. Ashkenazi Jews are those with roots in Central and Eastern Europe. That covers most Jewish Americans, including me. Only 6% of Ashkenazi Jews are thought to carry the defective gene, but that's enough to make it, according to the New York Times, "the most common known cancer gene in a particular population." And colon cancer is just one disease for which Ashkenazi Jews seem...
KNOW THY GENES Researchers have found a genetic defect present in roughly 6% of Ashkenazi Jews that doubles the risk of colon cancer. The mutation can be picked up with a $200 blood test. And if cancer is detected early, the likelihood of a cure is high...
...Once thought rare, a mutation in a BREAST CANCER gene turns out to occur in 1% of Ashkenazi Jewish women. These findings, combined with data showing that 1% of that population carry a flaw in a different breast cancer gene, means that 1 in 50 Ashkenazi Jewish women may have inherited a risk for the disease...
Philip Roth the imposter, however, seems to exist. Roth the character calles him Moishe Pipik (Moses Bellybutton) in a mock Yiddish epithet. Chasing Pipik around Israel. Roth finds out that the double has been spreading a gospel of "Diasporism"--he counsels Ashkenazi Jews to return to Eastern Europe to avoid another Holocaust at the hands of Arabs. Pipik had already met secretly with Lech Walesa and was trying to meet with the Pope using Roth's name...
While most observers would agree that Jews in America constitute an ethnic group, no one would see all Jews in the world as one ethnic group. There are Sephardic (Oriental), Ashkenazi (European) and Ethiopian Jews in Israel alone. Of course, the fact that Israel has airlifted 30,000 Black Jews from Ethiopia should say enough about the ridiculous notion of this accusation of racism...