well actually it seems that the jews you were talking about don't actually bother much with the torah...these groups barely even study it in detail after elementary school in fact...
what is going on is that they believe what the talmud says about them not getting the land back until the messiah comes...they are as far off from the kingdom of God as the zionists you oppose...
ashkenazi jews have a slight majority in israel...and about 80% of the jews worldwide are ashkenazim... and every study i have seen so far indicates that only about 12% of ashkenazi jews have any distinctively khazar contribution in their genes... in genetics that is considered 'high' in that it indicates a lot more intermarriage than you would typically expect between two unrelated populations...but not nearly enough to indicate that the khazars are actually the origin of the ashkenazi jews...
you should probably research the origin of the khazar theory...it was formulated based on the same kind of thoroughly debunked body measurement based racial 'science' that argued that africans were closer to apes than europeans...and it was adopted and popularized by the 'british israel' cult...
hey rachel...you might want to get up to speed.
sorry dear, not debunked. they tried to. maybe avoid the debunk debunkers...they're losing.
see, there are Israelis who are not religious, and do not have a vested interest in claiming Biblical Israelite heritage, okay?
they are the New Revisionists everybody's hatin' on and dismissing.
why, in the face of new evidence i do not know. what's wrong with the truth?
the jews at Khazaria.com are not ashamed of their heritage...why on earth are WE??
did you
ever contact the jews at Khazaria.com and ask THEM why
they are pedaling an
antisemitic British-Israelism-level myth? please.
anyways....let's get this DNA stuff out here. since it's the big hairy deal, and everything seems to be riding on it - even though as Christians we are supposed to know salvation was NEVER about RACE. and unsaved jews are not saved.
seriously.
argue with these folks:
Eran Elhaik confirms Ariella Oppenheim's DNA study
"Our PC, biogeographical estimation, admixture, IBD, ASD, and uniparental analyses were consistent in depicting a Caucasus ancestry for European Jews. Our first analyses revealed tight genetic relationship of European Jews and Caucasus populations and pinpointed the biogeographical origin of European Jews to the south of Khazaria."
"Our findings thus reject the Rhineland Hypothesis and uphold the thesis that Eastern European Jews are Judeo-Khazars in origin."
"The most parsimonious explanation for our findings is that Eastern European Jews are of Judeo- Khazarian ancestry forged over many centuries in the Caucasus."
"The religious conversion of the Khazars encompassed most of the Empire’s citizens and subordinate tribes and lasted for the next 400 years (Polak 1951; Baron 1993) until the invasion of the Mongols (Polak 1951; Dinur 1961; Brook 2006). At the final collapse of their empire (13th century), many of the Judeo-Khazars fled to Eastern Europe and later migrated to Central Europe and admixed with the neighboring populations."
"The remarkable close proximity of European Jews and populations residing on the opposite ends of ancient Khazaria, such as Armenians, Georgians, Azerbaijani Jews, and Druze (Figures 3, S2- 3, 5), supports a common Near Eastern-Caucasus ancestry."
"The conclusions of the latest genome-wide studies (Atzmon et al. 2010; Behar et al. 2010) that European Jews had a single Middle Eastern origin are incomplete as neither study tested the Khazarian Hypothesis, to the extent done here. Finally, our findings confirm both oral narratives and the canonical Jewish literature describing the Khazar’s conversion to Judaism (e.g., “Sefer ha-Kabbalah” by Abraham ben Daud [1161 CE], and “The Khazars” by Rabbi Jehudah Halevi [1140 CE]) (Polak 1951; Koestler 1976)."
The Missing Link of Jewish European Ancestry: Contrasting the Rhineland and the Khazarian Hypotheses < click
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why we can't just accept the overwhelming evidence is beyond me.