Cohanim J2 Eleazar Phinchas Zadok Agree Dr Karl Skorecki have the final word about Cohanim genetic signatures He more than anyone else is the most credible person that can publish articles and true informations about Cohanim genetic signatures not Jheald He was the one who discovered the CMH in 1997 After 10 years he came out to announce in 2007 that he and his research team have discovered not one but two Cohen Modal Haplotypes which he called J1 and J2 Katz Kaplan Rappaport Shapiro Kovacs Konh are all J2 Those surnames and families are the most prestigious Cohanim families today They are all Cohanim J2 J2 Cohanim is much more common than J1 Cohanim Skorecki reported that Pinchas the zealot mentioned in the Bible may be the origin of J2 This is a very important information that confirms matematical historic and genealogy facts Phinchas was the son of Eleazar Itamar was his brother Out of the 24 Cohanim houses 16 did belong to Eleazar Pinchas while only 8 came out from Itamar seed Eleazar Pinchas J2 had a much larger population than Itamar All Cohanim genealogy were divided into those two houses until the destruction of the second temple So if Phinchas is the origin of all Cohanim J2 than it makes sense since his Cohanim seed produced much more descendants than his brother Itamar So it is very normal and logical to understand why genetic cohanim signatures presents two CMHs wich is the caracteristics of the two houses of Cohanim All genealogic tree for Cohanim since Aaron until today are still divided into these two houses Eleazar Pinchas and Itamar During the 1270 years of the cohanim services Mishkan and Mikdash the Cohanim jews were always selected by the 24 houses 18 from Pinchas and only 8 from Itamar That s why J2 Cohanim is almost twice as common than J1 Cohanim Preceding unsigned comment added by 189 27 127 148 WHAAAAT During the 1270 years of the cohanim services Mishkan and Mikdash the Cohanim jews were always selected by the 24 houses 18 from Pinchas and only 8 from Itamar That s why J2 Cohanim is almost twice as common than J1 Cohanim lol D Please STOP BEING STUPID and be Real J1 if for real Jews ArabIsraelites decent and J2 is for GOYIM jews false jews 78 101 90 200 Agree Dr Karl Skorecki of the Ramban Technion Medical Center in Haifa who is renowned for his discovery in 1997 of the Kohen genetic signature reported in 2007 that he and his research team have discovered not one but two Cohen Modal Haplotypes which he called J1 and J2 Pinchas the zealot mentioned in the Bible may be the origin of J2 he suggested The extended CMH 12 is established for J1 Cohanim only If somebody in J1 also has CMH 12 then he is likely to have Cohen ancestry J1 Cohanim form a tight network around CMH 12 But this is not the case for J2 The CMH 12 does not apply to J2 If a J2 is in CMH 12 it tells us nothing about one being a Cohen In J2 the CMH 12 has no special status The J1 lineage of Cohanim in CMH 12 could be much more recent Jewish Cohanim in J2 form a much larger network around CMH 6 than Jewish Cohanim in J1 do Cohanim Jews belong mainly to haplogroup J2 because Cohanim as a group J1 J2 have a high frequency of J2 The J2 Cohanim have much more ancient common ancestor according to the observed mutation rate which is three times faster than the standard effective rate J2 Cohanim serves as the deep background of the priestly Jewish caste J1 J2 The finding of J2 among contemporary Cohanim can lend credence that today s Cohanim J1 J2 may be descendents of two different founding dynasties including coalescence to Phinchas as the founder of J2 Cohanim concluded Dr Karl Skorecki Why the confirmation that Phinchas may be the orign of J2 Cohanim is so important Pinchas son of Elazar son of Aharon the Kohen turned back My anger from upon the Children of Yisrael so I did not destroy the Children of Yisrael Therefore say behold I give to him My covenant of peace Numbers 25 10 30 1 God gave to Pinchas a new permanent priesthood for him and his descendants for all generations Zohar HaKadosh 3 124a God indicated that Phinchas had acted justly by rewarding him with the most counter intuitive form of blessing an all new form of priesthood He is given the Divine Covenant of Peace and the gift of eternal priesthood Zadok a des