Washington – Ever since their mad dash out of Egypt bound for the Promised Land, Jews have been on the move — and they continue to be, far more than any other religious group, according to a new study.
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One in four of the world’s Jews has migrated from one country to another, compared to 5 percent of Christians and 4 percent of Muslims who have left their native lands.
The findings are part of a comprehensive new study on religion and global migration, released by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, which tracked the journeys of the world’s 214 million migrants.
“The world Jewish community is consolidating,” said Jonathan Sarna, a professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis University who did not work on the study. “Jews are abandoning Third World countries where historically they had been persecuted and moving to large and generally free First World countries.”
No other major religious group approached the 25 percent migration rate of the Jews, said Phillip Connor, the senior researcher on the study. On average, he said, only 3 percent of the world’s population migrates.
The vast majority of world Jewry lives in one of two countries. Of the 13.3 million Jews worldwide, 43 percent live in Israel and 39 percent live in the United States.
Why don’t they say the reason why they are migrants?
We were and are chased out if every country due to persecutions and virulent antisemitism. Its not that the “jews have ants in the pants” and love running from country to country.
The percentages of Jews which were quoted in the above article for both EY and the USA, are misleading, since not all the Jews referred to are are Halachically Jewish. There are trhousands of Russians in EY, who are technically not Jews, although there may have been Jewish lineage going back several generations. The same holds true for the USA (i.e. offspring of a mixed marriage, where the Mother is not Jewish).
Avreich1, we are still in galus, and you are playing with people’s lives with your rhetorical comment, even more absurd given the rockets raining down on a significant portion of the Zionist paradise in Eretz Hakodesh, Hashem Yishmor.
The Yetzer Hara to worship this Egel Hazahav is so great, that even in the midst of murderous rockets from the savages raining down in the Zionists paradise, “Avreich1” advises to come to Eretz Yisrael and be subject to this Zionist paradise and its murderous hordes of savages surrounding, and even inside, Israel.
Unfortunately, Hashem has sent yet another dangerous reminder to the Zionists regarding the fallacy of their “kochi viotzem yadi” and, of course, of how the Zionists should have listened to the gedolim of the time and not founded their travesty of a state.
B”H, Eretz Yisrael is the land that Hashem is “doresh osah”, and even the goyim realize we are, B”H, seeing nissim geluyim from Hashem, but it is amazing that the Zionists can’t resist worshipping their Avoda Zara now, instead of being makir tov to Hashem, even at this time.
Once again, please, Hashem Yishmor, and may we all be zoche to the geula shileima bimheira viyameinu Amein.
Ever since Hashem said to our father Avruhum
וַיֹּאמֶר יְ־הֹוָ־ה אֶל אַבְרָם לֶךְ לְךָ מֵאַרְצְךָ וּמִמּוֹלַדְתְּךָ וּמִבֵּית אָבִיךָ אֶל הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר אַרְאֶךָּ
And Hashem said to Avruhum, “Go forth from your land and from your birthplace and from your father’s house, to the land that I will show you. We are following our father.