Know Any Good Jewish Money Jokes?
Part of what my co-author, Levi Brackman, and I are trying to do with our book "Jewish Wisdom for Business Success", is to open up the public debate about Jews and money. The only way to avoid wondering why there are so many Jews on Wall Street and in the corner offices of corporations and on the rolls of philanthropy is to make the subject verboten. For some reason that's what our society has chosen to do.
Stifling public discussion leads to only one thing: the inevitable disentanglement of a subject from truth. While publicly discussing Jews and money might be uncomfortable for some, repression leads to far worse things (like mistaken assumptions, incorrect analysis of data and ,um, genocide).
Levi and I feel that there's no mystery here. The statistically relevant trendline of Jewish success in business is not due to "smart" genes or to a secret Yiddish cabal that controls the levers of power. It's the religion itself. And our attempt to prove that hypothesis is what our book is about.
As part of our attempt to open up the debate, we've decided to launch a video contest. We want you to video-record you telling your funniest joke about Jews and money. Then send in your video by email (samjaffe (at) gmail.com) or send us a Youtube link. We will be posting the best videos on both www.gatesofemporia.com and www.levibrackman.com. Once we've collected a suitable number of entries, the three winners will get a free autographed copy of "Jewish Wisdom for Business Success".
All you have to do is to include the line: "This is my entrant for the Jewish Wisdom for Business Success Joke Contest" either at the beginning or end of the video. The video should be no longer than 3 minutes (hopefully a lot shorter than that). And make sure you include an email or phone number which we can use to contact you if you win.
The jokes will be judged on the humor of the joke and the quality and effect of its delivery. And for the I.Q.-challenged, we don't consider anti-semitic jokes to be funny. Save it for the Klan rally.
Stifling public discussion leads to only one thing: the inevitable disentanglement of a subject from truth. While publicly discussing Jews and money might be uncomfortable for some, repression leads to far worse things (like mistaken assumptions, incorrect analysis of data and ,um, genocide).
Levi and I feel that there's no mystery here. The statistically relevant trendline of Jewish success in business is not due to "smart" genes or to a secret Yiddish cabal that controls the levers of power. It's the religion itself. And our attempt to prove that hypothesis is what our book is about.
As part of our attempt to open up the debate, we've decided to launch a video contest. We want you to video-record you telling your funniest joke about Jews and money. Then send in your video by email (samjaffe (at) gmail.com) or send us a Youtube link. We will be posting the best videos on both www.gatesofemporia.com and www.levibrackman.com. Once we've collected a suitable number of entries, the three winners will get a free autographed copy of "Jewish Wisdom for Business Success".
All you have to do is to include the line: "This is my entrant for the Jewish Wisdom for Business Success Joke Contest" either at the beginning or end of the video. The video should be no longer than 3 minutes (hopefully a lot shorter than that). And make sure you include an email or phone number which we can use to contact you if you win.
The jokes will be judged on the humor of the joke and the quality and effect of its delivery. And for the I.Q.-challenged, we don't consider anti-semitic jokes to be funny. Save it for the Klan rally.
posted by Sam Jaffe at
9:33 AM
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