<p>Like, why do we have so much power?</p>
<p>Seriously.</p>
<p>Like, 20% of high-powered business men have last names beginning with "Gold", "Wein", "Weis", "Stein", or "Silver" and/or ending with "stein", "burg", or "man".</p>
<p>Jews only take up 1.3% of the US population.</p>
<p>Why are we so rich, powerful and cool?</p>
<p>It's even like that in Canada. I was asking myself the same question. I volunteered for a little while at a Jewish geriatric health care facility, and they get tons and tons of generous donations all the time. I just find it weird that they're mostly all rich.</p>
<p>Innate intelligence and cultural emphasis on education.</p>
<p>Have you heard of Rick Recht? He's a singer who describes himself as "the ultimate in Jewish rock!" ..lol. Well, I just found a live album of his in my attic, and after his most popular song (called Ruach, ironically) the crowd cheers and they all yell "YAY JEWISH!!!!!". lol!</p>
<p>Resilience from the Holocaust!</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_slur%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_slur</a></p>
<p>Is it offensive to call Jewish people rich, mike?</p>
<p>Its not offensive, but it does perpetuate an age-old stereotype that has been the cause of much anti-semitism over the last few hundred years.</p>
<p>Most Jews, like most other Americans, are middle class. Some are wealthy, some are poor.</p>
<p>I find it rather offensive.</p>
<p>I am Jewish and sure as hell is not rich. </p>
<p>I think its a very common stereotype but also a very ignorant one. </p>
<p>Yes, 75% of my friends families are rich, but often the 25% are overlooked. </p>
<p>I think that Jewish success has to do with being the "Chosen People" and help from G-d....but also Education is emphasized.</p>
<p>If you go to Israel, you would not consider the Jews there rich, you will find homeless Jews, and HARD working lower to middle class Jews as being the norm.</p>
<p>exactely! Its a very stereotypical sentence because not all Jews that are wealthy & Rich & Successful</p>
<p>For the record, i hope you guys Do know that Jewish is a Religion! Not an ethnicity</p>
<p>YAY, finally a thread not about Asians!!</p>
<p>i hope you guys Do know that Jewish is a Religion! Not an ethnicity</p>
<p>.....</p>
<p>Judaism is a religion,</p>
<p>its not a race nor ethnicity.</p>
<p>I think it is a gross-oversimplification of the Jewish people to call it just a religion. It is not a race or a specific ethinicy (although there are a number of ethnic groups within the Jewish spectrum that only exist as Jewish ethnic groups, the biggest being Ashkenazic, Sephardic and Mizrachi).</p>
<p>I prefer to use the term "people" in reference to Jews rather than race, ethnicity or religion. Certainly many Jews are practicing, but a good number are totally secular, but no less Jewish.</p>
<p>Being Jewish to me is more about heritage.</p>
<p>I'm not religious at all, but Judaism is still part of my culture and it feels close to me because half of my family is Jewish.
I really don't think that it's simply a religion, possibly because of all the history that seems to bond Jews together regardless of whether they practice.</p>
<p>So if jews are the chosen people, how come the gods have given jews such a raw deal throughout history?</p>
<p>A somewhat higher proportion of wealthy members of the religion hardly makes up for consistently being on the receiving end of discrimination, violence, and outright slaughter.</p>
<p>Good question, nauru. My family is Jewish and I've wondered the same thing. You can probably rationalize the centuries of "raw deals" by viewing God as an entirely hands-off entity. If God is intricately involved in all of the horrific things that happen in the world--past, present, and future--I want no part of him/her/it.</p>
<p>We are the Chosen people and as a result we go threw so MANY hardships.</p>
<p>From the slavery, exile, crusades, expulsion in 1492, pogroms, the Holocaust, and the CONSTANT terror in Israel by Arabs.</p>
<p>If we do not study G-ds Torah, it will only continue. We are cursed by G-d because we are not perfect thus terrible things happen to us.</p>
<p>G-d says in the Torah, "Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people,"</p>
<p>when Jews dont keep the covenant and obey G-d, terrible things happen to the Jewish people.</p>
<p>Mike--That sounds like a total crock to me. A vengeful G-d who curses people and causes terrible things to happen is just about the most obscene thing I can imagine.</p>
<p>^that's why it's your opinion.
there's no way to rationalize faith, and trying to do so is ignorant. Are you in any way religious?</p>
<p>Hindoo,</p>
<p>do you believe in G-d, I dont believe G-d is vengeful, if he were, you and I would not be living today.</p>
<p>We are still alive and thriving are we not?</p>