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the Jewish People ... men, women, children
The Immortal Chaplains Foundation & The Immortal Chaplains Prize for Humanity: Perpetuating the legacy of the four 'Immortal Chaplains' whose example of love for others, without regard to race, religion or creed, acknowledges the potential for human compassion. Celebrating the Interfaith Action of Rabbi Goode, Rev. Fox, Father Washington and Rev. Poling who on February 3, 1943 during World War II gave their life jackets to others on the sinking troopship ' Dorchester' and joined arms in common prayer. "If we can die together, can't we live together?"
http://www.immortalchaplains.org/
World Religions Christianity: 2 billion people
Islam: 1.3 billion people
Hinduism: 900 million people
Buddhism: 360 million people
Judaism: 14 million people Source: Adherents. COM
Jewish Population By Country | 1948 | 2000 | Algeria | 140,000 | less than 100 | Egypt | 75,000 | 200 | Iraq | 150,000 | 100 | Iran | 100,000 | 12,000 - 40,000 | Israel | 160,000 | 1,215,000 | Lebanon | 20,000 | 100 | Libya | 38,000 | 0 | Morocco | 265,000 | 5,800 | Syria | 30,000 | 200 | Tunisia | 105,000 | 1,500 | | Yemen | 55,000 |
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.
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.
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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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.
How are we related - a chart showing relationships
click here > related.txt
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.
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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