Is you find this article insightful or offensive please take it up with Mr. Stephens.
Ping!
“to see the absurd in the mundane and the sublime in the absurd”
would help explain why there are so many great Jewish comedians ...
The preening simp Bret Stephens likely receives his intelligence second-hand, or “seminally,” to use his own word.
Alien brain transplants. We get them when we’re eight days old. The circumcision ceremony is only the cover story./s
Girls, who don’t get circumcised, have to wait until their ears are pierced for the transplant.
Aren’t observant Jews required to learn and write the Hebrew language? Like the Orientals their language is closer to drawing than writing. The method of reading and writing these characters seem to me to be the reason for high intelligence.
I wish I could go back in time and see who is Ashkenazi.
My “enemy” competition for the next chair in high school band, the brilliant piano-playing sarcastic boyfriend of a friend’s sister, a professor in school, who could have been working anywhere making insane money, but who instead took me and other dull, disinterested students from zero to understanding Boolean algebra and how to thevenize circuits in a semester... Ashkenazi, I’lll bet.
Amazing people I was fortunate enough to have met and I still have them in my head for comparison.
I think of them when I read about God’s chosen in Scriptures.
Nurture rather than Nature (environment over genetics...)
Cultural aspects ...
‘Abstract Science’ pursued over ‘Getting Rich’ (the factor of the society the Jews are forced to live in because they have been a historic minority with limits imposed on opportunities)
There are ‘Socialists’ in Israel is the easy counter to ‘all jews are smarter’
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ONE decent smartie among 6 this moron chose? WTH
I once heard a theory that the priests of Christianity were assembled from the brightest young men, who then could never marry, whereas the Jews always encouraged the most promising sons to become rabbis, and yet expected them to marry. So after many generations, the descendants of rabbis had more intelligent boys among them, than did the descendants of Christians.
It’s a great theory but most likely the answer is simpler. A culture that prizes and encourages learning, reaps an excellent harvest. Where learned men and women are honored, there will be more of them.
Yeah - the Slimes doesn’t want it out that certain ethnic groups actually have higher IQs because then they have to admit some also have lower IQs...
Pretty much what Jackie said.
Now take the tradition that Esav was born appearing as a mature man. What are people thinking? He was a complete fuzzball -- the classic appearance of a preemie (as twins often are). So it's the opposite of maturity.
Jacob wan't described that way, and history shows that he was mature for his age, unlike Esav who for example, flew off the handle about his blessing.
It makes sense of his name, because the immature Esav still had a lot of work to do to catch up.
Everything in its time. No wonder Rivka concocted that dress-up scheme involving the very first Purim costume.
I’m Jewish. Although we had money, there was never a focus on material things. Anything to do with learning was freely given. While my friends were getting cars, I was traveling learning about the world. After High School, I didn’t know what I was going to do. My Father said you either get a job, go to school or go live in Israel. I went to Israel, by myself when I was 17, with my guitar and lived on a kibbutz for six months. I think about it now and seems crazy. But I learned a whole lot those six months.