All 4 Uses of
Judaism
in
Freakonomics
- This time around, the Klan was not confined to the South but ranged throughout the country; this time, it concerned itself not only with blacks but also with Catholics, Jews, communists, unionists, immigrants, agitators, and other disrupters of the status quo.†
p. 53.2 *Jews = people who believe in or identify with the culture of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions)
- One legal scholar called legalized abortion worse than either slavery (since it routinely involves death) or the Holocaust (since the number of post-Roe abortions in the United States, roughly thirty-seven million as of 2004, outnumber the six million Jews killed in Europe).†
p. 142.7
- Some people change names for economic purposes: after a New York livery-cab driver named Michael Goldberg was shot in early 2004, it was reported that Mr. Goldberg was in fact an Indian-born Sikh who thought it advantageous to take a Jewish name upon immigrating to New York.†
p. 190.5Jewish = of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions) or it's culture
- Goldberg's decision might have puzzled some people in show business circles, where it is a time-honored tradition to change Jewish names.†
p. 190.6
Definition:
the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions -- having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud
The Christian Old Testament closely corresponds to the Hebrew (Jewish) Bible.