cohanim j 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 after years he came out to announce in that he and his research team have discovered not one but two cohen modal haplotypes which he called j and j katz kaplan rappaport shapiro kovacs konh are all j those surnames and families are the most prestigious cohanim families today they are all cohanim j j cohanim is much more common than j cohanim skorecki reported that pinchas the zealot mentioned in the bible may be the origin of j 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 cohanim houses did belong to eleazar pinchas while only came out from itamar seed eleazar pinchas j 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 j 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 years of the cohanim services mishkan and mikdash the cohanim jews were always selected by the houses from pinchas and only from itamar that s why j cohanim is almost twice as common than j cohanim preceding unsigned comment added by whaaaat during the years of the cohanim services mishkan and mikdash the cohanim jews were always selected by the houses from pinchas and only from itamar that s why j cohanim is almost twice as common than j cohanim lol d please stop being stupid and be real j if for real jews arabisraelites decent and j is for goyim jews false jews agree dr karl skorecki of the ramban technion medical center in haifa who is renowned for his discovery in of the kohen genetic signature reported in that he and his research team have discovered not one but two cohen modal haplotypes which he called j and j pinchas the zealot mentioned in the bible may be the origin of j he suggested the extended cmh is established for j cohanim only if somebody in j also has cmh then he is likely to have cohen ancestry j cohanim form a tight network around cmh but this is not the case for j the cmh does not apply to j if a j is in cmh it tells us nothing about one being a cohen in j the cmh has no special status the j lineage of cohanim in cmh could be much more recent jewish cohanim in j form a much larger network around cmh than jewish cohanim in j do cohanim jews belong mainly to haplogroup j because cohanim as a group j j have a high frequency of j the j cohanim have much more ancient common ancestor according to the observed mutation rate which is three times faster than the standard effective rate j cohanim serves as the deep background of the priestly jewish caste j j the finding of j among contemporary cohanim can lend credence that today s cohanim j j may be descendents of two different founding dynasties including coalescence to phinchas as the founder of j cohanim concluded dr karl skorecki why the confirmation that phinchas may be the orign of j 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 god gave to pinchas a new permanent priesthood for him and his descendants for all generations zohar hakadosh a 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