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Gothmog

(145,130 posts)
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 10:38 PM Jan 2019

Congress is now 3 times more Jewish than the United States as a whole

This was posted by one of the members of the executive committee for the Texas state Democratic Party https://www.jta.org/2019/01/03/politics/congress-is-now-3-times-more-jewish-than-the-united-states-as-a-whole?fbclid=IwAR1E2c2KlWdH-mZUDAT-3evOUluzxdSWCqrVOnqjU3FfiYazLz5ndemhhb4#.XC-vN6kpMgA.facebook

More than 6 percent of the new Congress is Jewish, with 34 Jews among the total of 535 lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.

Jews make up 2 percent of the U.S. population, so Congress as a whole is more than thrice as Jewish as the country in general, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center on religion in the new Congress, which was inaugurated Thursday.

The number is even larger in the Senate, where eight of the 100 members are Jewish. That’s 8 percent, for the math challenged.
This Congress has four more Jews than its predecessor, which had 30 Jewish members. But it’s far from the most Jewish Congress ever. That was the 1993 Congress, which boasted 51 Jews — nearly 10 percent of the total.
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Congress is now 3 times more Jewish than the United States as a whole (Original Post) Gothmog Jan 2019 OP
hopefully not too many Joe Lieberman types and more Adam Schiffs mucifer Jan 2019 #1
33% Jewish on SCOTUS. All liberal. House of Roberts Jan 2019 #2
Good. Behind the Aegis Jan 2019 #3
Given Jewish reps MosheFeingold Jan 2019 #4

MosheFeingold

(3,051 posts)
4. Given Jewish reps
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 01:28 PM
Jan 2019

Were just accused of dual loyalty by a certain new lawmaker who also called for the “one state solutions” (aka genocide of Jewish people in Israel), it’s probably good we are there.

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