"35%-55% Ashkenazis are of European Descent"

[PetiteParisienne]

Interesting study from 2010 on the genetic diversity of Ashkenazi Jews. Food for thought.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0826141331.htm

[gandalf]

This not surprising .
Jews got some caracteristics of the population with
witch they have been living for a long time .

I met a Russian jew once and she looked very siberian .

[Bakura]

In my book most of European Jews looks quite White cuz they for centuries mixed with the local population and they pick up a lot Euro genes.

[2Cool]

What about Sephardic (those from Portugal/Spain mainly)?

[PetiteParisienne]

What about Sephardic (those from Portugal/Spain mainly)?

Sephardic Jews are not considered white, especially those from North African countries. Their religious and ethnic practices are very different from those of Ashkenazi Jews, as well.

[2Cool]

Sephardic Jews are not considered white, especially those from North African countries. Their religious and ethnic practices are very different from those of Ashkenazi Jews, as well.

That's why I specified those from Portugal (look up Belmonte Jews) and Spain. Not those that got expelled into other countries and mixed with the locals.

[Sikeliot]

I don't know about all Ashkenazis, but Russian Jews often look just Russian to me and not very Semitic.

[The Lawspeaker]

Three "Dutch" Jews. Job Cohen (former Labour-leader and former mayor of Amsterdam), Uri Rosenthal (Foreign Minister) and Lodewijk Asscher (Labour wethouder in Amsterdam).

[Nairi]

Rimma Varzhapetyan, leader of Jewish community in Armenia,ethnic Jew from Russia (married to an Armenian).

[Grizzly]

Ashkenazi