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rebdoniel
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Modern genetic science certainly doesn’t recommend marrying a karov.

We need to diversify our gene pool, due to the high percentage of problems we see in the Ashkenazic community (not just Tay Sachs, but the percentage of developmental disabilities seems to be higher on a per capita basis in the frum community than in society as a whole, although I have no data to quantify this).