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The article is very interesting.
My mother always said we had Sephardic ancestry, that her great-grandparents were Sephardic, and my father once told me, while we were playing backgammon, that he was descended from a family of Iraqi Jews. I thought it was all strange because I imagined myself the grandson of Spanish and Lebanese parents, but a few months ago I took a DNA test and it showed 20% Sephardic and 20% Mizrahi, 2% Tamani, and 2% Ashkenazi. I traveled to Israel, and from my layover in Frankfurt, rabbis and Jewish families mistook me for Jewish, inviting me to prayers and to witness the inspection of kosher meals on the plane. When my guide in Israel learned I was from the Abdalla family, she was concerned about my stay in Israel, but she said that as soon as she saw me in person, she was certain I might have Jewish origins. So, I think these DNA tests might actually be right.
Regards from Brazil!