US news articles and blogs - The Christian Science Monitor. Tikkun Magazine - A Jewish Magazine, an Interfaith Movement. Israel News - Haaretz Israeli News source. Or Alive? - Main Page. Dispatch: Just how hungry is Gaza? Docuticker. Jewish Genius. Since its first issue in 1945, COMMENTARY has published hundreds of articles about Jews and Judaism.
As one would expect, they cover just about every important aspect of the topic. But there is a lacuna, and not one involving some obscure bit of Judaica. COMMENTARY has never published a systematic discussion of one of the most obvious topics of all: the extravagant overrepresentation of Jews, relative to their numbers, in the top ranks of the arts, sciences, law, medicine, finance, entrepreneurship, and the media. I have personal experience with the reluctance of Jews to talk about Jewish accomplishment—my co-author, the late Richard Herrnstein, gently resisted the paragraphs on Jewish IQ that I insisted on putting in The Bell Curve (1994).
And so this Scots-Irish Gentile from Iowa hereby undertakes to tell the story. But religious literature is the exception. Generally speaking, this remained the case well into the Renaissance and beyond. What accounts for this remarkable record? Gallery View. Rolling Stone | Music News, Reviews, Photos, Videos, Interviews. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph news. The National Security Archive. The Spill, The Scandal and the President | Rolling Stone Politic. The New Yorker. Slate Magazine. Prospect Magazine, Current Affairs Cultural Debate « Prospect Ma.
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