This medication is also used, usually with other medications, to treat certain auto-immune diseases (lupus, rheumatoid arthritis) when other medications have not worked or cannot be used. It belongs to a class of medications known as disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs).
Ashkenazic Jews are the Jews of France, Germany, and Eastern Europe and their descendants. The adjective Ashkenazic and corresponding nouns, Ashkenazi (singular) and Ashkenazim (plural) are derived from the Hebrew word Ashkenaz, which is used to refer to Germany.lthough some individual Sephardic Jews are less observant than others, and some individuals do not agree with all of the beliefs of traditional Judaism, there is no formal, organized differentiation into movements as there is in Ashkenazic Judaism.
The name Ashkenaz in the Bible. Ashkenaz is the son of Gomer, son of Japheth, son of Noah (Genesis 10:3). Since Genesis 10 deals largely with peoples, it's safe to assume that to the authors of it, Ashkenaz represented a certain nation.hich nation that was is unclear, but in the Middle Ages the name Ashkenaz became applied to the Jews of Western Europe, the Ashkenazi, initially centered in northern Italy. Their (middle-)eastern counterpart eventually moved to Spain (which is obviously more western than Italy), and became known as the Sephardi Jews.