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LordNeuf
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Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 2:38 pm

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/12/opinion/12brooks.html?ref=opinion

Jews are a famously accomplished group. They make up 0.2 percent of the world population, but 54 percent of the world chess champions, 27 percent of the Nobel physics laureates and 31 percent of the medicine laureates.

Jews make up 2 percent of the U.S. population, but 21 percent of the Ivy League student bodies, 26 percent of the Kennedy Center honorees, 37 percent of the Academy Award-winning directors, 38 percent of those on a recent Business Week list of leading philanthropists, 51 percent of the Pulitzer Prize winners for nonfiction.
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It then goes on talking about books and how awesome Jews are, but the question is...

Do you really think we hit a golden age? I mean is this as good as it gets? what could be better?

Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:49 pm

A country of our own would be nice...
...oh yeah. We gots that.

Maybe some harmony and a right to exist would be cool.

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Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 7:54 pm

I think a golden age would include something a little more exciting than some Nobel Prizes and a bunch of rich Jews, but that's just me.

Plus, all other societies to experience "Golden" ages were like...in one place. You know what I mean? I think that's what the Messianic Age is for, right?

Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 9:27 pm

I'm cool with accepting this as a golden age. I mean, sure, there's lots that could be better, but that's how it'll always be (until the Messianic age >_>).

Right now Israel isn't directly threatened with destruction. There's no genocides going against us. Jews are able to live relatively comfortably, and are achieving a great deal. Some of our culture is even spreading among the goyim (apparently non-Jews are discovering a love of kosher food).

That's all pretty cool in my book.