Jews

I am continually impressed by the Jewish people. The obstacles they had to overcome throughout their history, culminating in the Holocaust, are almost beyond belief. Jews have won 20% of all Nobel Prizes and since WW 11 they have won 30% of the Nobels in Chemistry, Physics, Medicine and Economics. When you consider that there are fewer than 15 million Jews in a world of 6.5 billion, it is astounding. I will look at only one small part of history that being WW 11. A Jewish chemist, Weizman, in England developed a way to make acetone using microbs and this allow the Brits to make munitions. England was so grateful that they agreed to his request to partition an area for the Jewish State in the Middle East. Churchill said that Weizman’s contributions to the war effort were incalculable. Here in the United States, a Jewish émigré from Hungary broke the Japanese Code which by some estimates shortened the war and saved the lives of millions. It was a group of Jews who fled Eastern Europe to get away from the Nazi’s that led to the development of the Atomic Bomb which also saved the lives of many American Servicemen because it avoided the invasion of Japan.