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compassion. Celebrating the Interfaith Action of Rabbi Goode, Rev.
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World Religions
Christianity: 2 billion people
Islam:
1.3 billion people
Hinduism: 900 million people
Buddhism: 360
million people
Judaism:
13.2 million people
Source:
Adherents. COM
Jewish
Population By Country
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1948
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2000
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Algeria
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140,000
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less
than 100
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Egypt
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75,000
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200
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Iraq
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150,000
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100 |
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Iran
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100,000
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12,000
- 40,000
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Israel
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160,000
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1,215,000 |
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Lebanon
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20,000
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100 |
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Libya
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38,000
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0 |
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Morocco
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265,000
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5,800 |
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Syria
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30,000
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200 |
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Tunisia
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105,000
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1,500 |
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Yemen |
55,000
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Imagine
if we could shrink the earth's population to a village of
precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining
the same, it would look something like this:
There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 Africans
52 would be
female
48 would be male
70 would be
non-white
30 would be white
70 would be
non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would
possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all
6 would be from the United States
1 would be near
death
1 would be near birth
1 would have a college education
1 would own a computer
If you woke up
this morning with more health than illness --- you are more
blessed than the million who will not survive this week.
If you have never
experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment,
the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation --- you are ahead
of 500 million people in the world.
If you can attend
a synagogue or church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest,
torture, or death --- you are more blessed than three billion
people in the world.
If you have money
in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace
--- you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.
If your parents
are still alive and still married --- you are very rare --- even
in the United States and Canada.
Sent to
me by a friend.
Your relatives are more
numerous than you might think. If your
great-great-grandfather had five children, and they each had
five children, and they each had five children, and they each
had five children (one of whom is you), there would be 625
descendants in your generation.
If you start with
a kid born in the year 2000 - here is the geometric progression
....
This kid will
have 1,099,511,627,776 direct ancestors if he/she traces his/her
roots to the year 1000 for a total of 41 generations.
The further you
go back in time, the more duplicate ancestors you find -- due to
distant cousins marrying, most likely not realizing that they are
cousins. Over a large number of generations (41 is a large
number) it becomes meaningless to talk of being descended from any
one specific person. The proportion of genes you share in
common with any one person of 41 generations back, is somewhere in
the range of 1/2 to the negative power of 41 -- i.e. negligible,
especially since geneticists generally claim that the human genome
consists of only a few hundred thousand genes in total. And
the difference between your kinship with that one person, and with
any other contemporary person of 41 generations ago is
meaningless.
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"Each preceding generation
would double the number of people involved until the point was
reached that the number of ancestors exceeded the world
population (not allowing for space aliens)."
"A family of 8 children is
enough for the model to break down. Take a 8 of these
families living in the same shtetl, their combined 64 children
would have at most 64 g-g-parents. They would often have
more than 8 children, and they would live together precisely
because they had "some" family relationship".
"Assuming families had 10
children (not unusual in the early 1900s) and only twice 2
siblings among the 16 parents, you're already down to 58
g-g-parents for 80 children."
Romney, A. Kimball. 1971. A
model for the analysis of endogamy. In Paul Kay (Ed).
Explorations in Mathematical Anthropology, Pp. 191-213.
Cambridge: MIT Press From a posting by Yves
Goulnik
Statistics
On
October 8, 2002, officials of the UJC, the umbrella
organization of local Jewish federations, released an
outline of the Jewish population.
There
are 1.5 million non-Jews living in the 2.9 million Jewish
households that the study identified.
The
Jewish population stands at 5.2 million, down 5.45% from 5.5
million in 1990.
Jews
represent 2 percent of the general U.S. population, which
stands at 288 million - an increase of 33 million from 1990.
The
Jewish population resides in 2.9 million Jewish households,
with a total of 6.7 million people in all those
households. This means that 1.5 million of those
people (one out of every five people living in a Jewish
household on average - are not Jewish.)
The
median age of U.S. Jews is 41 in contrast to the median age
of 35 in the general U.S. population. 19% are female,
49% are male.
54%
of U.S. Jews aged 18 and older are married, compared with
57% in the general U.S. population while 26% aged 18 and
older are single and never married.
30%
of Jewish men are single compared with 22% of Jewish
women. 9% of Jewish adults are divorced, 4% are
separated and 7% are widowed. 59% of Jewish adults
have married once, 13% twice and 2% three times or more.
Births
Jewish
women approaching the end of their child bearing years, aged
40-44, have an average of 1.8 children, which is below the
replacement level of 2.1. 52% of Jewish women aged
30-34 have no children, compared with 42% in 1990 and 27%
among the general population in 2000.
National
Origin
85%
of the Jewish adults were born in the U.S. Of the 15% of
foreign born Jews, 44% come from the former Soviet Union
(20% from Ukraine), 13% from Russia, the rest from other
parts of the former USSR and 10% each from Israel and
Germany.
Population
By Region
43%
of Jews live in the Northeast, compared with 19% of the
total population.
43%
of Jews live in the West, compared with 23% of non-Jews.
22%
of Jews live in the South, compared with 35% of non-Jews.
13%
of Jews live in the Midwest, compared with 23% of non-Jews
38%
of Jews live in a different region of the country then from
where they were born ... including me.
Households
The
average number of people per Jewish household is 2.3 as
compared to 2.6% in non-Jewish homes.
30%
of Jewish households have one person compared with 26% of
non-Jewish households.
38%
have two people, 13% have three, 12% have four and 8% have
five or more.
Education
24%
of adult Jews have a graduate degree, and 55% have earned at
least a bachelor's degree, as compared with 5% and 28%
respectively, in the general U.S. population.
Income
$50,000
is the median income among Jews, compared with $42,000 among
non-Jews. 19% of U.S. Jews are defined as low income
earning $25,000 annually or less, compared with 29% of
non-Jews
Interesting? |
Comparing the beginning of the last
century,
as opposed to what it is today,
these are the statistics
| The
average life expectancy in the US was 47
Only 14% of
the homes in the US had a bathtub
Only 8% of
the homes had a telephone. A three minute call from
Denver to New York City cost eleven dollars
There were
only 8,000 cars in the US and 144 miles of paved roads
Alabama,
Mississippi, Iowa and Tennessee were each more heavily
populated than California
With a mere
1.4 million residents, California was only the twenty-first
most populous State in the Union
The tallest
structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower
The average
wage in the US was twenty-two cents an hour
The average
US worker made between $200 and $400 per year
A competent
accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year, a dentist
$2500 per year, a veterinarian between $1500 and $4000 per
year and a mechanical engineer about $5000 per year
More than
95% of all births in the US took place at home
Ninety
percent of all US physicians had no college education.
Instead, they attended medical schools, many of which were
condemned in the press and by the government as
'substandard'
Sugar cost
four cents a pound. Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen.
Coffee was fifteen cents a pound
Most women
washed their hair only once a month using borax or egg yolks
for shampoo
Canada
passed a law prohibiting poor people from enter the Country
for any reason, either as travelers or immigrants
Scotch
tape, crossword puzzles, canned beer and iced tea hadn't
been invented yet
One in ten
US adults couldn't read or write |
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There are some fact about Jews that I never knew.
The Roosevelt 's were Jewish Dutch, arriving in NYC
in 1682 (Originally named Claes Rosenvelt
before name change to Nicholas Roosevelt)
Sarah Delano, DR's mother, was descended
from Sephardic Jews.
Joseph Stalin was originally
named Joseph David Djugashvili (translating into
"son of a Jew.") As well, all 3 of the women he
married were Jewish.
Dwight
Eisenhower's father was a Swedish Jew and was so
identified in the West Point Yearbook of 1915.
INTERESTING JEWISH FACTS
1.
Lillian Friedman married Cruz Rivera. They named
their baby Geraldo Miguel Rivera. (Funny, it doesn't
sound Jewish.) Since, according to Jewish law,
anyone born to a Jewish mother is Jewish, Geraldo
Rivera is Jewish. As were, among others: Fiorello La
Guardia, Winston Churchill and Cary Grant, as
explained below.
2.
Fiorello LaGuardia's mother's name was Jacobson. His
father was not Jewish. LaGuardia spoke seven
languages -- including Hebrew and Yiddish -
fluently.
3. Winston
Churchill's mother's name was Jenny Jerome.
4. Cary
Grant's mother, Elsie, was Jewish. His father, Elias
Leach, was not. Grant's original name was Archibald
Alexander Leach. (Robin Leach is his first cousin).
5. Peter
Sellers' mother, Margaret Marks, was Jewish. His
father, Bill Sellers, was Protestant. Peter's real
name is Richard Henry Sellers.
6. David
Bowie's mother is Jewish, his father is not. One of
Bowie 's album covers discusses his Jewish ancestry.
His real name: David Stenton Haywood Jones.
7. Robert
DeNiro's mother is Jewish; his father is not.
8. Shari
Belafonte's mother is Jewish. Her father, Harry, has
a Jewish grandfather
9. Olivia
Newton John's Jewish grandfather was a Nobel Prize
winning physicist.
10.
Harrison Ford's mother is Russian Jewish, his father
is Irish Catholic.
ALWAYS GOOD TO KNOW AND REMEMBER!
Fact: The
first theater to be used solely for the showing of
motion pictures was built by a Jew (Adolf Zukor).
Fact: The
first full-length sound picture, The Jazz Singer was
produced by the Jewish Samuel L. Goldwyn & Louis B.
Mayer (MGM).
Fact: A
Jew (Dr. Abraham Waksman) coined the term
antibiotics.
Fact: A
Polish Jew (Casimir Funk) who pioneered a new field
of medical research gave us a word now common in our
language -- vitamins.
Fact: The
first successful operation for appendicitis was
performed by a Jewish surgeon (Dr. Simon Baruch)
Fact: The
doctor (Dr. Abraham Jacobi) hailed as America 's
father of pediatrics was a Jew.
Fact:
Until a Jewish doctor (Dr. Siccary) showed
differently, Americans believed the tomato was
poisonous.
Fact:
Jewish Levi "Levi's" Strauss (inventor of jeans) is
the la largest
clothing
retailer in the world.
Fact: In
1909, four Jews were among the 60 multi cultural
signers of the call to the National Action, which
resulted in the creation of the NAACP.
Fact: A
Jew (Emile Liner) is the man who developed the
modern day
phonograph. While Thomas Edison was working out a
type of phonograph that used a cylinder as a record,
Berliner invented a machine that would play a disc.
The machine he patented was called the gramophone,
and the famous RCA trademark is a picture of a dog
listening to "his master's voice" on Berliner's
device. The gramophone was superior to Edison 's
machine. In short, Emile Berliner made possible the
modern record industry. His company was eventually
absorbed by the Victor Talking Machine Company, now
known as RCA.
Fact:
Jewish Louis B. Mayer (MGM) created the idea for the
Oscar.
Fact:
European Jews are the founding fathers of all the
Hollywood Studios.
Fact: Jews
comprise a mere 1/4 of 1% (13 million) of the
population (6 billion).
Fact: 99%
of the world is non Jewish.
Fact:
Three of greatest & most influential thinkers
dominating the 20th Century were Jewish - Einstein,
Freud, and Marx.
Fact: The most popular selling Christmas song
("White Christmas") was written by a Jew. (Irving
Berlin)
Fact: Of
the 660 Nobel prizes from 1901 - 1990, 160 have been
won by Jews. In the end, Jews win more Nobel prizes
than any other ethnicity. They win 40 x more than
should be expected of them, based upon their small
population numbers.
Fact: A
Jew (Dr. Jonas Salk) is the creator of the first
Polio Vaccine.
Fact: Jews
(Hayam Solomon & Isaac Moses) are responsible for
creating the first modern banking institutions.
Fact: Jews
also created the first department stores of the 19th
century: The Altmans, Gimbels, Kaufmanns, Lazaruses,
Magnins, Mays, Strausses became leaders of major
department stores. Julius Rosenwald revolutionized
the way Americans purchased goods by improving Sears
Roebuck's mail order merchandising. Hart, Schaffner,
Marx, Kuppenheimer and Levi Strauss became household
names in men's clothing. (Let's not forget E J
Korvets -
Fact:
Jewish Marc Chagall *(born Segal , Russia ) is one
of the great 20th century painters.
Fact:
English Jewish financiers such as Isaac Goldsmid,
Nathan Rothschild, David Salomons, and Moses
Montefiore, whose fortunes helped England become an
empire.
Fact: In
1918, Detroit , a Jew (Max Goldberg) opened the
"first" commercial parking lot.
Fact: In
1910, a Jew (Louis Blaustein) and his son opened the
"first" gas station, eventually founding AMOCO OIL.
One of the richest oil families in the world.
Fact: A
Jew (Dr. Albert Sabin) developed the first "oral
polio vaccine."
Fact: A Jew (Steven Spielberg) is the most
successful filmmaker since the advent of film.
Fact: A
Jewish poet's (Emma Lazarus) famous poem, "give me
Your tired .. Your poor. Your huddled masses,"
appears as the inscription on the Statue Of Liberty.
Fact:
Jewish Harry Houdini (Weiss) is the father of
Magic/Illusion.
Fact: Dr.
Sigmund Freud (Jew) is the father of psychiatry.
Fact:
Jewish Abraham is the father of the world's 3 major
religions:
Judaism,
Christianity & Islam (ancestors of the Hebrew
&Arabic peoples).
Fact:
Jesus (formerly known as "sweet Jewish Jesus") is
still
worshipped by
billions.
Fact: Jews
are the oldest of any people on earth still around
with their
national
identity and cultural heritage intact.
Fact:
George & Ira Gershwin & Irving Berlin (Jews) are
three of the most prolific composers of the 20th
century.
Fact:
Isadore & Nathan Straus (Jews) - "Abraham & Straus,"
eventually became sole owners of Macy's (world's
largest department store) in 1896.
Fact: Dr.
Paul "magic bullet" Ehrlich (Jew) - physician, Nobel
Prize in 1908 for curing syphilis.
Fact: Armand Hammer (Jew) - "Arm &
Hammer," physician & businessman who originated the
largest trade between U. S. and Russia .
Fact: Louis Santanel (Jew) was the financier who
provided the funds for
Columbus ' voyage
to America.
Fact: Sherry Lansing (Jew) of Paramount Pictures,
became the first woman president of a major
Hollywood studio.
Fact: Flo
Zigfield (Jew) of "Zigfield Follies," is the creator
of American burlesque.
Fact: Jews
were the brains behind the Confederacy:
Fact: Maj.
Adolph Proskauer led the unit at Gettysburg.
Fact:
Judah P. Benjamin held 4 cabinet positions: Attorney
General, February 25 to September 17, 1861,;
Secretary of War, September 17, 1861, to March 18,
1862; acting Secretary of War, March 18 to 23, 1862;
Secretary of State, March 18, 1862, until the end of
the war) and was referred to as "the brains of the
confederacy."
Fact:
Rabbi Max Michelbacher was a confidant and spiritual
advisor to General Robert E. Lee.
Fact: A great many Jews fought for
the Confederacy, and the overwhelming were recent
immigrants from Germany & East Europe who felt they
were fighting for Democracy. They fought far out of
proportion to their number*
Cohanim
Cohanim
are the 'sons of Aaron' and there is a web site dedicated to
gather together and to discuss important family/tribal matters.
You must join first in order to contribute to the discussions http://communities.msn.com/cohanim/
The terms "halevi"
and "hacohen" refer to the person's descent from
the tribe of Levi who became assistants to the priestly class of
Cohen. These positions are defined in the Bible and are, in
Orthodox congregations, still observed as positions of great
honor. Therefore, to indicate the prestige associated with
the fact that these people had great family honor (yichus), these
adjectives are added to their names.
In present day
Orthodox congregations this honor is preserved in 2 ways.
One way is when people are called to read from the Torah on
Saturday morning services, the first called is a Cohen and the
second called is a Levi. The second way is when the priestly
blessing is chanted; the Levis in the congregation have the honor
of assisting the Cohens who chant the blessing with their heads
covered by their prayer shawls.
Another vestige
of this position of honor and responsibility is when the first
born male is ransomed from being required to serve the priestly
class in the ceremony called "Pidyan ha Ben", which
takes place 30 days after birth. The previous information
was contributed by Gene Sucov on 5/25/2000 in a posting to
JewishGen.
Cousin
Marriages - Cousin marriages were very common during the 19th
century and earlier in Eastern European Jewish communities.
One major reason was that when people lived in small communities,
the available matches were small. Sometimes only a cousin
was available. Also, there weren't prohibitions or knowledge
of the possible negative genetic effects. There were also
advantages of keeping whatever wealth a family had "within
the family".
If you want
more information about your family tree try this site http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/
and type in Family at the top right corner to
search. You'll be amazed and astounded, I am sure, as I was
with what can be found here.
General Ulysses S Grant and the Jews -
January 2008
marked the 145th anniversary of the overturn of a
Civil War era law that has gone down in history as America’s
worst act of official anti-Semitism.
In December
1862, Union General Ulysses S. Grant issued General Order No.
11, which expelled Jews “as a class” from the territories under
his command; the edict gave Jews in Kentucky, Tennessee and
Mississippi 24 hours to flee northward.
By the time the
law was rescinded by President Abraham Lincoln, Jewish families
from those areas had been humiliated, terrified, jailed,
stripped of their possessions, and expelled.
How are we
related - a chart showing relationships
click here >
related.txt
Jewish People - Famous
ones
http://www.nndb.com/ancestry/481/000045346/
Jewish Women
in the Middle Ages - an article "Medieval
Feminism" by Rochelle Furstenberg and published in the
June/July 2002 issue of Hadassah Magazine discusses Jewish women
in the Middle ages and disputes many of the perceived images about
them. You'll find more information at their web site in the
Archives link
http://hadassah.org
Judaism -
there are many forms:
Cardiac Judaism
- in my heart I am
a Jew
Gastronomic Judaism - we eat Jewish foods
Pocketbook Judaism - I give to Jewish causes
Drop-off Judaism - drop
the kids off at Sunday school
and go out to breakfast
Two times a Year Judaism - attend service on Rosh Hashanah
and Yom Kippur
Nobel Prize
Winners
Israel vs.
Arab/Islamic Winners of the Nobel Prize
There are 1.2
billion Muslims representing 19.6% of the World's population and
there are 8 Nobel Prize holders.
There are 14.1
million Jews representing 0.2% of the World's population and there
are 127 Nobel Prize winners.
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I
Can't Believe We Made It!
If you lived as a child in the 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's or
70's, Congratulations! Looking back, it's hard to believe
that we have lived as long as we have...
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air
bags. Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was
always a special treat. Our baby cribs were covered with
bright colored lead-based paint. We had no childproof lids
on medicine bottles, doors, or cabinets, and when we rode
our bikes, we had no helmets. (Not to mention hitchhiking to
town as a young kid!)
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a
bottle...Horrors! We would spend hours building our go-carts
out of scraps and then rode down the hill, only to find out
we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few
times we learned to solve the problem.
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long
as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was
able to reach us all day. No cell phones. Unthinkable.
We played dodge ball and sometimes the ball would really
hurt. We got cut and broke bones and broke teeth, and there
were no law suits from these accidents. They were accidents.
No one was to blame, but us. Remember accidents?
We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue
and learned to get over it.
We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank sugar soda but
we were never overweight...we were always outside playing.
We shared one grape soda with four friends, from one bottle
and no one died from this.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, video
games at all, 99 channels on cable, video tape movies,
surround sound, personal cell phones, Personal Computers,
Internet chat rooms ..... we had friends. We went outside
and found them. We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home
and knocked on the door, or rung the bell or just walked in
and talked to them.
Imagine such a thing. Without asking a parent! By ourselves!
Out there in the cold cruel world! Without a guardian.
How did we do it?
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms
and although we were told it would happen, we did not
put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live inside
us forever.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was
unheard of. They actually sided with the law, imagine that!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers
and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years
has seen an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we
learned how to deal with it all. And you're one of them. (IF
NOT.... SO SORRY!!) Congratulations!
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