1. Sports Shemitahs
April- September, 2015

2. What are Jewish People known For?
Intelligence…
Who is the symbol of intelligence?
A Jewish guy born in Ulm, Germany…

3. How many Jews are there?
Jews currently make up approximately 0.2% of the world's population
and 2% of the US population.

4. 23% of all Nobel Prize Winners…
At least 194 Jews and people of half- or three-quarters-Jewish ancestry have been awarded the Nobel Prize,
accounting for 23% of all individual recipients worldwide between 1901 and 2014,
and constituting 36% of all US recipients during the same period. 

5. In the scientific research fields of Chemistry, Economics, Physics, and Physiology/Medicine,
the corresponding world and US percentages are 27% and 39%, respectively. 

6. Women and organizations…
Among women laureates in the four research fields, the Jewish percentages (world and US) are 35% and 50%, respectively. 
Of organizations awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 23% were founded principally by Jews or by people of half-Jewish descent. 

7. And recently?
Since the turn of the century (i.e., since the year 2000), Jews have been awarded 27% of all Nobel Prizes and 29% of those in the scientific research fields.