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THE
WHY, WHAT, AND WHO OF THIS WEBSITE
Although
there are scores of websites that purport to
characterize the Jews and their impact on the world,
nearly all of them are sponsored by groups whose
ultimate objectives vis-à-vis the Jews and the State
of Israel range from defamation to outright
elimination. Many of the classic works of the
anti-Semitic canon, once confined to the fever
swamps, have become widely available via the
Internet. To this has been added a vast body
of anti-Zionist propaganda that frequently traffics
in anti-Semitic tropes and eliminationist
rhetoric. The purpose of this website is to
provide an online resource that accurately
describes the Jewish contribution to the cultural,
scientific, and technological evolution of
civilization.
This contribution is
multifaceted and includes Monotheism, the Bible,
Judaism and Christianity, and thereby the moral
foundations of Western civilization; the concept of
linear (vs. cyclical) time, from which follows the
possibilities of freedom, progress, and hope; medical
advances that have saved the lives of more than 1.5
billion people; the Haber process, without which forty
percent of the world’s population could not be fed;
much of twentieth century physics, and thereby much of
the scientific basis of the physical-layer technology
underpinning the third and fourth industrial
revolutions; the work of 200+ Nobel Prize winners
(which absent the Holocaust and widespread numerus
clausus restrictions on access to higher
education and employment, would likely have been 300+
Nobel Prize winners); the $120 trillion international
bond market; the Broadway musical; the American film
industry; and the invention or co-invention of the
radio antenna, nuclear power, the transistor, the
laser, holography, the atomic clock, NMR spectroscopy
(the basis of MRI), antibiotics, chemotherapy,
monoclonal antibodies, genetic engineering, the
artificial heart valve, the heart pacemaker and
defibrillator, flexible endoscopy, phacoemulsification
cataract surgery, cybernetics, the von Neumann
computer architecture, the computer spreadsheet, the
word processor, BASIC, COBOL, Ada, LISP, linear
programming, public-key cryptography, blockchain,
artificial intelligence, quantum computing, cellular
telephony, the Internet, Google, and ChatGPT, to name
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