"Jews make up 2.2 percent of the American population, a percentage that has held steady for the past two decades. The survey estimates there are 5.3 million Jewish adults as well as 1.3 million children being raised at least partly Jewish."
No Jon, the reason that so many Americans are cut, is not because there are so many of us here.
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Cripes, I don't know how a thread on BASEBALL got wound up on romance, Yiddish, and circumcision, but, no, Jon: up until the early 1980's, most kids (60 to 70 per cent) were circumcised in Canada and the U.S.A. - as an hygienic measure. (I'm one of them, so is my b/f, and neither of us is Jewish.)
As an aside - which might amuse Mike - I was in the lunch-line at work one day, and got a shrimp salad. My friend, "L", who is Jewish, said, "Oh, A - that's very
treyf!!!" Being very Scottish, and having NO CLUE what this meant, I phoned my friend "H" - who is a famous doctor in Paris, and who is Jewish, and asked ~ "What the hell does 'treyf" mean?" He said, "A - it is Yiddish for 'not kosher'".
SO, of course, I went back to see "L" the next day, and said, "HEY, what the hell were you expecting, from me? I'm as
treyf as treyf can BE!!! I grew up on a PIG FARM!!! I've eaten every part of a pig that EXISTS - from snouts to ears to feet to tails. I'm a
gentile, so. . . give me a BREAK!!!!"
L. . . dissolved in laughter ;-))))
"A" XOXOXOXOXOXO
P.S. I loved my little pigs, growing up - they were so cute!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_4XWcDSR8w