Facing Tomorrow 2008

At one level, the late 20th century and early 21st century is a truly Golden

Age for world Jewry. Following the decimation of the Holocaust, and since

the Civil Rights laws of the late 1960s, Jews in the United States, Israel and

elsewhere have enjoyed unparalleled opportunities. In the United States,

quotas in higher education, professional schools, financial institutions, law

firms, and hospitals have long since been dropped. A remarkable 85 percent

of American Jewish youngsters attend college--twice the national average.

Jews have been completely integrated into American society. Similar success

has been enjoyed by Jews in Europe. And Jews have taken full advantage

of the elimination of barriers. Jews are barely one-fifth of one percent of the

world's population, but represent 20 percent of all Nobel Prize winners. There

is hardly a field of endeavor in science, the arts, medicine, law, literature,

government, in which Jews are not disproportionately prominent.