The Jewish Impact On The World

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The Jewish Impact On Civilization (article) or online seminar

 The Jewish Impact On America

 History of Judaism

 Jewish Nobel Prize Winners

 Jewish Quotes

 7 Wonders of Jewish History

 Jews In The American Media

There is a striking point that runs through Jewish history as a whole.  Western civilization was born in the Middle East, and the Jews were at its crossroads.  In the heyday of Rome, the Jews were close to the Empire’s center.  When power shifted eastward, the Jewish center was in Babylon; when it skipped to Spain, there again were the Jews.  When in the Middle Ages the center of civilization moved into Central Europe, the Jews were waiting for it in Germany and Poland.  The rise of the United States to the leading world power found Judaism focused there.  And now, today, when the pendulum seems to be swinging back toward the Old World and the East rises to renewed importance, there again are the Jews in Israel…

- Professor Huston Smith

I saw a remarkable study of the
five most influential people of all time:
Moses, Jesus, Marx, Freud, & Einstein
all Jewish!
- Rabbi Wein