Poor Judaists
Not all Judaists in the world are rich.
There are poor Judaists in New York and Israel. It means even for Jewish people the matter of material success in society is an individual problem but not a crisis of the race.
There are poor Judaists in New York and Israel. It means even for Jewish people the matter of material success in society is an individual problem but not a crisis of the race.
In 2003, UJA-Federation of NY and Ukeles Associates studied Nazi Victims in the New York Area, finding that half of New York's Holocaust survivors live in households with incomes below 150% of poverty guidelines. In 2004, the Met Council and UJA-Federation of NY published a new Report on Jewish Poverty, finding that about 244,000 Jews in the New York area had income levels under 150% of Federal poverty guidelines. 27% of these were large Orthodox households, 23% were Russian-speakers under the age of 65 (44% altogether were Russian-speakers), 34% were over 65, and 16% were either disabled, unemployed, or had no college degree. (According to the Met Council, one subset of the latter group includes those about whom the Jewish community has typically been in denial: single parent households, substance abusers, and Israelis who are in the US without proper documentation.) An additional 104,000 Jews in the area are near-poor, the report concluded, with incomes only modestly above that level. These near-poor Jews are even less well-known and understood than their poor Jewish counterparts, argued William Rapfogel, Ilene S. Marcus, and Esther Larson in the Journal of Jewish Communal Service in 2007. "The near-poor are not poor enough to receive federal assistance," they point out, "but do not have the means to make ends meet." In 2009, the Met Council commissioned a Report on the Federal Poverty Thresholds and the Federal Poverty Guidelines, laying out many problems with current standards.
Jewish poverty is even more acute in Israel. Writing for Jewish Ideas Daily, Yehudah Mirsky recently explored the Class Divide between American and Israeli Jewry, writing: "The world's two largest Jewish communities differ in many ways. Class is one of them." Jenny Cohen-Khallas assessed Penury and Hunger in Israel in the pages of Sh'ma in May 2003, reminding readers that one sixth of Israel's population is impoverished. In the same issue of Sh'ma, Eliezer Jaffe examined Wealth, Poverty, and the Zionist Vision, asserting that poverty in Israel today "is caused foremost by the economic depression worldwide and the ongoing war with the Palestinians". (In 1975, the same author appraised Israeli poverty from the perspective of Sephardi-Ashkenazi Divisions.) Writing in 2009, "at the height of the most serious economic crisis since the Great Depression," Yael Shalgi outlined A Conceptual Map of Poverty in Israel, asserting, "Israel has a higher rate of poverty than most developed countries."
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So, it seems that historically some Judaists became rich not by relying solely on their own people of the same race but rather by taking a chance in Christian society that surrounded them.
It also means that wealth super-rich Jewish people have is not originated in the Jewish community but is common assets of the world. That is why Hitler and Nazis could justify their atrocity by claiming that they were taking back wealth from Jews, since such wealth was inherently belonged to the German society but not to the Jewish society.
The same logic can apply even today. To avoid the tragedy, Judaists should abandon wealth they got in the Christian society. If all the Judaists lived in their own nation without relying on any assets of Christian countries, they must be safer.
However, as such a solution is impossible, it is better for Judaists to live poor for safety. In this context. poor Jewish people in New York and Israel can be good examples.
Be poor, the teaching of Christ Jesus, should also apply to Judaists.
It also means that wealth super-rich Jewish people have is not originated in the Jewish community but is common assets of the world. That is why Hitler and Nazis could justify their atrocity by claiming that they were taking back wealth from Jews, since such wealth was inherently belonged to the German society but not to the Jewish society.
The same logic can apply even today. To avoid the tragedy, Judaists should abandon wealth they got in the Christian society. If all the Judaists lived in their own nation without relying on any assets of Christian countries, they must be safer.
However, as such a solution is impossible, it is better for Judaists to live poor for safety. In this context. poor Jewish people in New York and Israel can be good examples.
Be poor, the teaching of Christ Jesus, should also apply to Judaists.
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Rev 11:12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
Rev 11:13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.