When I had 23 & Me, it told me that I am 95% Ashkenazi Jewish. I already knew this. What I didn't know is that I am 5% Gentile. This made me very happy, and I w

When I had 23 & Me, it told me that I am 95% Ashkenazi Jewish. I already knew this. What I didn't know is that I am 5% Gentile. This made me very happy, and I wish the percentage were much higher. Some people in the more conservative parts of the Jewish community are dismayed by intermarriage. I say, please more intermarriage. A lot more. Two thousand years of endogamy didn't do us any favors at all.