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You are correct, the Jews in NY are relatively few, unfortunately they have a lot of financial clout and have contributed much to hillary's election to the senate. Example: george soros is only 1 Jew, but believe me, he will play a very important role in the 2004 election against President GWB and against many Republicans in Congress. I have nothing against the Jews, I have many, many, Jewish friends, most of them are not rich, but are conservatives and that's probably why they are not millionaires.

You are correct, the Jews in NY are relatively few, unfortunately they have a lot of financial clout and have contributed much to hillary's election to the senate.

Can you quantify your assertions with facts, figures, and links ?

Example: george soros is only 1 Jew, but believe me, he will play a very important role in the 2004 election against President GWB and against many Republicans in Congress.

I reject your example. Calling George Soros a Jew is akin to calling Hillary Clinton a Christian.

George Soros, a Hungarian-born Jew who escaped the Holocaust by fleeing to London as a child, is ranked the 28th richest person in the United States (with a fortune valued at $7 billion) by Forbes magazine.

In November 2003, for the first time ever, the billionaire spoke to a Jewish audience at the conference of the Jewish Funders Network. Many people were dismayed by his call for “regime change” in the United States, his talk of funding projects in “Palestine" and the Geneva Accord, and his ideas about the cause of anti-Semitism.

Soros said European anti-Semitism is the result of the policies of Israel and the United States. “There is a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe. The policies of the Bush administration and the Sharon administration contribute to that,” Soros said. “If we change that direction, then anti-Semitism also will diminish,” he said. “I can’t see how one could confront it directly.”

Soros also said that he has personally contributed to anti-Semitism. Soros believes that Malaysian prime minister, Mahathir Mohammad, was referring to people like Soros when he said, “Jews rule the world by proxy.” Soros' projects and funding have influenced governments and promoted various political causes around the world.

Soros' comments were called “absolutely obscene" by Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League.

International philanthropist George Soros was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1930. He emigrated to England in 1947 and graduated from the London School of Economics in 1952. In 1956, he moved to the United States.

I have nothing against the Jews, I have many, many, Jewish friends, ...

But of course, doesn't everybody ?

William Rapfogel, executive director of the Metropolitan Jewish Council on Jewish Poverty, pointed out that those families who make just above the poverty level are actually in worse shape than those below the line because they do not qualify for such benefits as Medicaid, Food Stamps and rental assistance.

The study confirmed what Rapfogel has been saying for years — that one-third of the Jewish population in New York City is at or near the poverty level. “Some people thought we were crying wolf,” he said.

“There are more Jews in poverty today than there were 10 years ago,” Rapfogel said of the city statistics. “Ten years ago there were 145,000 people living at or below the poverty level; today UJA is saying it is over 200,000. And the near-poor could increase that number by 10 percent. So combined, the number could be more than 40 percent” of city residents living near or below the poverty level.