Genetic Test May Soon Tell You if [sic] You’re Really Jewish
2nd October 2017
If, of course, that’s what you want to do.
As nearly half of all Ashkenazi Jews can trace their lineage, via a particular genetic mark, to four women who emigrated from the Middle East to Europe about a thousand years ago, chances, Rabbi Carmel continued, “are high, statistically speaking, that anyone able to prove that they are the offspring of those four mothers is Jewish according to halacha.”
Well. There it is.