Because of the statistically high incidence of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in the Jewish Ashkenazi community, there have been several ongoing medical studies requesting volunteers to help scientists better understand the biological basis of these conditions: [However,] Yeshiva University Prof. Rabbi Moshe Tendler, a medical ethicist, has expressed concerns about [such] studies focusing only... 

Health officials in Israel are subjecting many female Ethiopian immigrants to a controversial long-term birth control drug in what Israeli women’s groups allege is a racist policy to reduce the number of black babies. A feminist movement has accused the Israeli government of adopting a racist policy towards the country’s Ethiopian Jews. Activists believe black women are deliberately being...