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...felt sick to my stomach when I read how Abramoff got the Coushatta Indians to trust him by suggesting that he knew the pain, loss and mistreatment of the tribe because of his birthright as an Orthodox Jew. And then the lobbyist scammed them for millions. I can tell you that Abramoff's actions in no way reflect the heritage, teachings, honor and dignity of the Jewish faith that I was raised in. Abramoff is a poseur, disgracing other Jews by his deceitful actions. SHARON ZEIDAN Los Angeles...
Furthermore, as reported recently by USA Today, 80 percent of 10th graders expected to attend college in 2003, a 21 percent increase from 1990. Again, this change in American culture correlates with a common perception that American Jews are more likely to receive a college degree than a non-Jew...
...course no stereotype necessarily applies. Not every Jew is a pessimist, and only 75 percent of American Jews receive a college diploma according to the 2004 National Jewish Population Survey. Popular culture has found a representation of its changing self in trite Jewish stereotypes, and it has again pigeonholed Jews into those characteristics...
Abramoff told the tribal council he brought a special understanding to their plight. As an Orthodox Jew, "he understood how native Americans have been mistreated, been misled, because his people, the Jews, had also been done that way," William Worfel, then a member of the council, recalls him saying. If the Coushattas gave him enough money, Abramoff promised, he could make their problems go away. He and his partner Michael Scanlon, a onetime press secretary for congressional leader Tom DeLay who ran his own public relations firm, came through, attacking the tribe's political opponents, blitzing the state with television...
...Harvard’s campus, Huma Farid ’06 reported this November that a group of women yelled “filthy Jew-hater” at her because of her Muslim background. At the time of the verbal attack, Farid was wearing the hijab, or head scarf, indicating her Muslim faith...