And a surprising amount live in Jew York.
I love all Jews, rich, poor, black, white, funny, solemn, artsy, and businesslike. But I have to say, one of the things I really like is when I see Jews enjoying being Jews. Whether it's eating Chinese on Christmas, or kids dressing up as Esther and Mordechai on Purim, or doing a shtik,or lighting Shabbat candles, or calling someone a Meshugenah, I love Jews who love being Jews.
Jews are survivors. In as much as we are Kings of Kvetching, the truth is that we know how to make lemonade out of lemons. Look at Jewish history, look anywhere around the world, and Jews prosper. We get kicked out of one place, and we just go somewhere else and dig in and work and excel. Although we seem to prefer cities (because the Orthodox walk to synagogue) there really is no environment that we can't conquer (consider how we turned deserts into thriving farms in Israel). That's why we are everywhere.
Do you know that when Benedict XVI was elected Pope, that Cardinal Lustiger (a Jew) was one of the Papabile? One of these days it will happen; one of our boys will even be in Peter's chair. Wow, what THAT will do for Catholic-Jewish relations.