Polemics & Exchanges

raelite socieh', below the pure Israeliternstock, even into Rabbinic times—a phenomenonrnthat attests to the importancernof bloodlines throughout Jewish histor)'.rnWhile the marriage practices of the Kohanimrnare indeed stricter than those ofrnother Jews, there is no question that marriagerninto the Jewish gene pool was veryrninfrequent until quite recently, and modernrnpopulation . . .