48 Percent Of U.S. Billionaires Are Jewish

[RickHolland]

Jewish Americans are the most powerful and influential ethnic group in America. Jewish Americans make up 2 percent of the U.S. population yet comprise 40 percent of U.S. billionaires.

18% of jewish households have a net worth of $1 million or more. More than 55% of all Jewish Adults received a college degree and 25% earned a graduate degree.

More than 60% of all employed Jews are in one of the three highest status job categories: professional or technical (41%), management and executive (13%) and business and finance (7%).

Over 45% of large gifts made to charity are made by Jewish Americans. Over 50% of Jewish Americans live in just four states: New York, New Jersey, Florida and California.

Jewish Billionaires

Lawrence Ellison
Net Worth:$25.0 billion

Sheldon Adelson
Net Worth:$20.5 billion

Sergey Brin
Net Worth:$18.7 billion

Larry Page
Net Worth:$18.6 billion

Michael Dell
Net Worth $17.2 billion

Steve Ballmer
Net Worth $15.2 billion

Carl Icahn
Net Worth $14.5 billion

Michael Bloomberg
Net Worth:$11.5 billion

George Soros
Net Worth:$9.0 billion

Samuel Newhouse
Net Worth $8.5 billion

Source: Forbes Magazine
Jewish Media Executives

Rupert Murdoch
CEO of News Corporation

Robert A. Iger
CEO of the Walt Disney Company

Philippe P. Dauman
CEO of Viacom

Jeff Zucker
CEO of NBC Universal

David Westin
President of ABC News

Donald Graham
CEO of the Washington Post

Mortimer Zuckerman
Editor-In-Chief of U.S.News & World Report

Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr
Publisher of The New York Times

Mel Karmazin
CEO of SIRIUS Satellite Radio

Joanne Lipman
Editor-In-chief of Condé Nast Portfolio

Jann Wenner
Publisher of Rolling Stone Magazine

Source: Wikipedia
Jewish Investment Bankers

Richard S. Fuld, Jr.
CEO of Lehman Brothers

Lloyd C. Blankfein
CEO of Goldman Sachs

Charles R. Schwab
Founder of the Charles Schwab Corporation

Prof. Stanley Fischer
Governor of the Bank of Israel

Bob Zoellick
President of the World Bank

Ben Bernanke
Chairman of the Federal Reserve

Alan D. Schwartz
CEO of Bear Stearns

Bruce Wasserstein
CEO of Lazard LLC

Dr. Josef Ackermann - [123 People]*
CEO of Deutsche Bank

Jean Claude Trichet
President of the European Central Bank

James Dimon
CEO of JPMorgan Chase

Blake Grossman
CEO of Barclays Global Investors

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[Steven L. Akins]

Not only that, but at least half of the richest Americans in Forbes list of the 400 Richest Americans are Jews.

Compare the Jerusalem Post's list of the World's 50 Richest Jews to the names of the top 100 wealthiest people on Forbes 400 list of Richest Americans:

http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/Jew...aspx?id=187386

Larry Ellison, Michael Bloomberg, Sergey Brin, Lawrence (Larry) Page, Steven Ballmer, George Soros, Michael Dell, Mikhail Fridman, John Paulson, and Roman Abramovich, Ronald Perelman, Carl Icahn, George Kaiser, Joseph Safra, Sheldon Adelson, James Simons, German Khan, Serge Dassault, Len Blavatnik, David and Simon Reuben, Alain and Gerard Wertheimer, Philip Green, Sammy Ofer and family, Steven Cohen, Viktor Vekselberg, Alexander Abramov, Eli Broad, Dorothea Steinbruch, Ira Rennert and Michael Kadoorie, David Geffen, Stephen Schwarzman, Isak Andic, Ralph Lauren, Samuel Newhouse Jr., Micky Arison, Leonid Mikhelson, Henry Kravis, Lester Crown, Leonard Lauder, Richard S. LeFrak, Donald Newhouse, George R. Roberts, Bernard Sherman, Samuel Zell, Pyotr Aven, Frank Lowy and family, Arnon Milchan and Leonard Stern.

http://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/

(Note: I have highlighted the names below of Jews that also appear in the above list, however I suspect that several of the names that are not highlighted are probably secular/non-practicing Jews by ethnicity)

Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Larry Ellison, Charles Koch, David Koch, Christy Walton, George Soros, Sheldon Adelson, Jim Walton, Alice Walton, S. Robson Walton, Michael Bloomberg, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, John Paulson, Michael Dell, Steve Ballmer, Forrest Mars, Jacqueline Mars, John Mars, Paul Allen, Phil Knight, Carl Icahn, Donald Bren, Anne Cox Chambers, Ronald Perelman, Abigail Johnson, James Simons, George Kaiser, Len Blavatnik, Harold Simmons, Jack Taylor, Steve Cohen, Harold Hamm, Rupert Murdoch, James Goodnight, Philip Anschutz, Andrew Beal, Steve Jobs, Patrick Soon-Shiong, Samuel Newhouse, Ray Dalio, Edward Johnson, Charles Ergen, Richard Kinder, Eli Broad, Leonard Lauder, Pierre Omidyar, Eric Schmidt, Ralph Lauren, Sam Zell, Jim Kennedy, Richard LeFrak & Family, David Tepper, Blair Parry-Okeden, Donald Newhouse, Ira Rennert, Charles Butt, David Geffen, Jeffrey Hildebrand, Richard DeVos, John Menard, Charles Johnson, Ray Lee Hunt, Leonard Lauder, Bruce Kovner, Stephen Schwarzman, Micky Arison, Leonard Stern, Henry Kravis, Haim Saban, Daniel Ziff, Dirk Ziff, Robert Ziff, Sumner Redstone , John Paul DeJoria, David Green, William Koch, Roger Wang, Leslie Wexner, Henry Kravis, Gordon Moore, Robert Bass, Jin Sook & Do Won Chang, Trevor Rees-Jones, John Arnold, Dustin Moskovitz, Henry Ross Perot, John Sall, Charles Schwab, Dannine Avara, Gayle Cook, Scott Duncan, Milane Frantz, Bruce Halle, George Roberts, Randa Williams, Ann Walton Kroenke, Ronald Lauder, Ted Lerner, Patrick McGovern, Leon Black, Ron Burkle, Paul Tudor Jones, Stanley Kroenke, Daniel Och, Edward Lampert, Stephen Ross


In looking at the above, it should be noted that Jews account for only 2.5% of the United States' population.

[Rick Ronsavelle]

They sure know how to make money. . . . . . .

[RebelView]

This data reinforces my own personal experience. In the 50's my area was all wealthy wasp, but they've since been almost entirely displaced by jews.

[Steven L. Akins]

Originally Posted by RebelView

This data reinforces my own personal experience. In the 50's my area was all wealthy wasp, but they've since been almost entirely displaced by jews.

The Jews got busy making money as soon as they got off the boat here in America. The following are just a few examples of how the Jews cornered the market in a few areas of the American economy.

Retail Department Store chains:

Lazarus Department Stores - founded by Simon Lazarus, an Ohio Jew who established The F&R Lazarus & Co., an operation which blossomed into what is today known as Macy's, Inc, a major retail holding company in the U.S. In 1850, Lazarus, a rabbinical scholar, arrived in Columbus, and in 1851 he opened the Lazarus store. Assisted by his wife Amelia and sons Fred and Ralph, Simon and his store gradually began to prosper. Simon Lazarus was once described as "a good man, a gentle man, a scholar--and no merchant,"--and Simon's own grandson, the late Robert Lazarus, Sr., was the man who said it. By 1870, industry improvements (primarily attributable to the mass manufacture of men's uniforms for the Civil War), led the family to expand the business to include ready-made men's civilian clothing and eventually a complete line of merchandise. Simon Lazarus served as the first Rabbi of Central Ohio's oldest Reform synagogue, Temple Israel.
Later Simon sons, Fred Lazarus, Sr. and Ralph Lazarus, joined the business, adding many innovative marketing techniques. After Simon's death in 1877, his widow Amelia continued running the store with their two sons. After Amelia's death in 1899, the store was renamed The F&R Lazarus & Company and positioned the company for rapid expansion of the company. In 1928, the company purchased The John Shillito Company department store in Cincinnati. In 1929, Federated Department Stores, Inc., was organized in Columbus, Ohio, as a holding company for founding members F&R Lazarus & Company, its subsidiary The John Shillito Company, William Filene's Sons & Company and Abraham & Straus department stores. The group was led by Fred Lazarus, Jr., whose namesake company was by then the dominant retail store in Columbus. The Lazarus family pioneered many shopping firsts such as the concept of "one low price" (in which no bargaining was required); theirs was also the first department store with escalators and the first air conditioned store in the country. The family also successfully lobbied President Franklin Roosevelt to permanently set the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving, thereby ensuring a longer Christmas shopping season in those years in which November had 5 Thursdays.

Abraham & Straus (or A&S) was a major New York City department store, based in Brooklyn. Founded in 1865 by Abraham Abraham, the son of a Jewish immigrant from Bavaria. The chain, which became part of Federated Department Stores, in 1929 is now part of Macy's. Abraham's father was Judah Abraham, left Bavaria in 1837 and married Sarah Sussman en route to the United States. Soon after arrival, Judah Abraham opened a store on Murray Street in New York. In 1843 Abraham Abraham was born. He had delicate health, and wanted to be a violinist. During the Civil War, he ran away to Chicago to enlist, but was brought back by his father. At 14, he worked at Hart & Dettlebach of Newark, along with Simon Bloomingdale and Benjamin Altman for $1 a week. Abraham opened Wechsler & Abraham in Brooklyn in 1865 at 285 Fulton Street. The company later became Abraham & Straus. He became a Brooklyn philanthropist, establishing the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital, among many other causes. In 1890, he commissioned a house, now demolished, at 800 St. Mark's Avenue in Brooklyn. Among Abraham's many notable descendants are grandson Donald B. Straus, an educator, author, and advisor, great-great-granddaughter Nina Rothschild Utne, a magazine publisher, and great-great-great-grandson Arthur Bradford, an author and director.

Macy's Inc. was founded as Federated Department Stores in 1929 in Columbus, Ohio. Federated was originally a department store holding company for Abraham & Straus, F&R Lazarus & Company (including its Cincinnati division, then known as The John Albert Macy Company) and William Filene's Sons of Boston. Bloomingdale Brothers joined the organization in 1930. Federated moved its corporate offices to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1945.
Over the next few decades, Federated expanded nationwide, adding Rike Kumler of Dayton, Ohio (merged into Shillito's in the 1980s to become Shillito-Rike's); Burdines of Miami, Florida; John Albert Macy Jr. of Atlanta, Georgia; Foley's of Houston, Texas; Sanger Brothers and A. Harris, both of Dallas, Texas (which was merged with Sanger Brothers to form Sanger-Harris); Boston Store of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; MainStreet of Chicago, Illinois; Bullock's, of Los Angeles; I. Magnin, of San Francisco, California; Gold Circle; and Richway Discount Department Stores of Worthington, Ohio. In 1982, Federated acquired the Twin Fair, Inc. discount store chain based in Buffalo, New York and merged it with Gold Circle.[4] Federated was the successor to the Lazarus operation begun in Columbus, Ohio, in 1851. Lazarus family members served in prominent positions within Federated through the 1980s. In the mid-1930s, a modern merchandising standard was set when Fred Lazarus (son of Simon) arranged garments in groups of a single size with a range of style, color and price in that size, rather than the other way around. Lazarus based this technique upon observations made in Paris. Fred Lazarus Jr. also convinced President Franklin D. Roosevelt that changing the Thanksgiving holiday from the last Thursday of November the fourth Thursday, extending the Christmas shopping season, this would be good for the nation's business. An Act of Congress perpetuated the arrangement in 1941. After this date "Black Friday" became a nation wide sensation, becoming the most profitable day for Macy's nation wide. Other companies tried to follow suit but failed to overcome what John Albert Macy had in mind. Various Lazarus family members also held key positions on Federated's board and within its various divisions—namely, Foley's, Filene's, Lazarus and Shillito's. As of January, 2002, Robert Lazarus Jr. was the only family member still with an official role at Federated, serving as assistant to Ron Klein, then chairman and CEO of the Rich's/Lazarus/Goldsmith's operating unit of Federated, now Macy's South. In 1983 it sold most of its infrastructure to JMB Realty.

Limited Brands (formerly known as The Limited, Inc.) is an American apparel company based in Columbus, Ohio. In 2009 it reported 9.04 billion dollars in revenue for the last fiscal year. In 1912 Bella Cabakoff emigrated with her parents from Russia to Columbus, Ohio to escape persecution. At 21, she became the youngest buyer for the Lazarus department store chain. However, after spending over 20 years with Lazarus, in 1951 she and her husband Harry Wexner opened a women's clothing store named Leslie's (after their son) on State Street. This store became the training ground for Leslie Wexner. In 1963 he borrowed $5,000 from his aunt and $5,000 from the bank and opened a store at the Kingsdale Shopping Center in Upper Arlington. This store was named "The Limited" because the store focused on clothing for younger women, unlike his parents' general merchandise store. Later in 1964, Bella and Harry closed their store to join their son in his venture.
The original board consisted of only the three family members and long time friend of Harry and Bella, Jim Waldron, (who served as Senior Vice President): Bella Wexner (who served as secretary until her death in 2001), Harry as chairman (who served until his death in 1975) and Leslie who succeeded his father as the chairman and later became CEO. He and his family continue to control 17% of LTD. In 1969, Wexner took The Limited Brands public, listed as LTD on the NYSE. In 1977, The Limited moved into its main headquarters on Morse Road in Columbus, Ohio, where it still operates from today.
The 1980s started a string of acquisitions: In 1982, the Victoria's Secret brand, store, and catalogue were purchased from Roy Raymond for $4 million. Also in 1982, 207 Lane Bryant stores were purchased. In 1985, a single Henri Bendel store was purchased for $10 million and 798 Lerner stores for $297 million. Finally, in 1988, 25 Abercrombie & Fitch stores were purchased for $46 million. The Limited then phased out its ownership of the A&F brand in 1996, when it was spun off into a publicly-traded company. The 1990s saw the initial development of the Limited Too, Bath & Body Works, Structure, and Victoria's Secret Beauty. Later in 1998, several Bath & Body Works stores were converted to The White Barn Candle Company stores to begin a home fragrance brand. On August 3, 2007, Limited Brands transferred 75% ownership of its flagship Limited chain to buyout firm Sun Capital Partners Inc. In 2010, the remaining shares were sold to Sun Capital Partners Inc.

Leslie "Les" H. Wexner (born September 8, 1937 in Dayton, Ohio) is an American businessman from Columbus, Ohio, and currently chairman and CEO of the Limited Brands corporation. Wexner was born to Russian Jewish immigrants in Dayton, Ohio. He attended The Ohio State University, majoring in business administration. He became a member of Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity. He briefly attended law school, but left to help his parents run their store in a suburban Columbus, Ohio, shopping center. In 1963, Les Wexner borrowed $5,000 from his aunt to start 'The Limited' (so named because the store focused on clothing for younger women, unlike his parents' general merchandise store). The Limited opened its first store in the Kingsdale Shopping Center in Upper Arlington. Wexner's parents closed their store one year later in 1964, and joined their son at 'The Limited'. Wexner took Limited Brands public in 1969, listed as LTD on the NYSE. Over the years he built a large retailing and marketing conglomerate, which currently includes: Victoria's Secret, Pink (Victoria's Secret), Bath & Body Works, Henri Bendel, C. O. Bigelow, The White Barn Candle Company, and La Senza. Previous brands that have spun off include: Lane Bryant, Abercrombie & Fitch, Lerner New York, The Limited Too (now Tween Brands, Inc.), Structure 9, Aura Science, The Limited (separation from Limited Brands by sale of 75% to Sun Capital Investments, made official as of August 3, 2007), Express (separation from Limited Brands by sale of 75% to Golden Gate Capital, made official as of July 6, 2007). Allegations have been made that Wexner's The Limited Inc. has used slave labor both in the United States and abroad[2]. These charges have been made particularly against Victoria's Secret which is part of The Limited Inc. and owned by Leslie Wexner.[3][4]

J.W. Mays, Inc. is a real estate firm based in Brooklyn, New York, United States. From 1927 until 1988 the company ran a chain of discount department stores in the area surrounding New York City referred to as simply Mays, with stores located in three of New York City's five boroughs and Long Island. The chain grew from a Brooklyn women's clothing store founded by Joe Weinstein, a Russian Jewish immigrant, in 1924. In 1927 Weinstein incorporated the company, and added his initials. The reason why he chose the name to begin with was because, as Weinstein said, "it reminded me of the countryside and the flowers and the springtime".[1]
Mays grew throughout the 1950s and 1960s. It's slogan, "Every Day A Sales Day", was imprinted, in big red, script lettering, on every white paper shopping bag, and every white cardboard shopping box. Mondays were "super-sales" days, and stores were especially crowded then. Weinstein was aggressive in his competition against other discount retailers such as Ohrbach's and Alexander's, as well as the higher end department stores. At one point Weinstein discussed a merger between Mays and his two main discount competitors, but it never came to be.[2] At the company's peak in the 1970s, Mays operated nine stores. At that time the company had about 5,000 employees. By the late 1970s, it started losing market share to other discount retailers, and in 1982 the store declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company closed five locations that operated outside the city, leaving one store in Manhattan, two stores in Queens, and the original store in Brooklyn. In 1987, Mays closed one of its two stores in Queens (Glen Oaks), leaving three in the chain. The chain continued on but announced on December 28, 1988 that they would be closing the remaining three stores in the chain immediately, with the final sale occurring on December 31 of that year. Beginning on January 1, 1989, J.W. Mays, Inc. reincorporated as the real estate company that it currently does business as.

Neiman Marcus, formerly Neiman-Marcus, is a luxury specialty retail department store operated by the Neiman Marcus Group in the United States. The company is headquartered in the One Marcus Square building in Downtown Dallas, Texas,[1] and competes with other department stores such as Saks Fifth Avenue, Barneys New York, Lord & Taylor, Nordstrom, Von Maur and Bloomingdale's. The Neiman Marcus Group also owns Bergdorf Goodman specialty retail department stores on Fifth Avenue in New York City and a direct marketing division, Neiman Marcus Direct, which operates catalogue and online operations under the Horchow, Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman names. Herbert Marcus, Sr., a former buyer with Dallas' Sanger Brothers department store, had left his previous job to found a new business with his sister Carrie Marcus Neiman and her husband, A. L. Neiman, then employees of Sanger Brothers competitor A. Harris and Co.. In 1907 the trio found themselves with $25,000 from the successful sales-promotion firm they had built in Atlanta, Georgia, and two potential investments into which to invest the funds. Opting to reject the unknown "sugary soda pop business," the three entrepreneurs chose instead to return to Dallas to found a retail business rather than take a chance on the fledgling Coca-Cola company.[2] For this reason, early company CEO Stanley Marcus was quoted in 1957 as saying in jest that Neiman Marcus was "founded on bad business judgment."[3] The store, established on September 10, 1907, was lavishly furnished and stocked with clothing of a quality that was not commonly found in Texas. Within a few weeks, the store's initial inventory, mostly acquired on a buying trip to New York made by Carrie, was completely sold out. Oil-rich Texans, welcoming the opportunity to flaunt their wealth in more sophisticated fashion than was previously possible, flocked to the new store. In spite of a nationwide financial panic set off only a few weeks after its opening, Neiman Marcus was instantly successful, and its first several years of operation were quite profitable.[4] In 1914 a fire destroyed the Neiman Marcus store and all of its merchandise. A temporary store was set up and opened in 17 days.[5] By the end of 1914, Neiman Marcus opened in its new, permanent location at the corner of Main Street and Ervay Street. With the opening of the flagship Neiman Marcus Building, the store increased its product selection to include accessories, lingerie, and children's clothing, as well as expanding the women's apparel department. In its first year at the new building, Neiman Marcus recorded a profit of $40,000 on sales of $700,000, nearly twice the totals reached in its last year at the original location.[4] In 1927 the store expanded and Neiman Marcus premiered the first weekly retail fashion show in the United States. Neiman Marcus Direct conducts both print catalog and online operations under the Neiman Marcus, Horchow and Bergdorf Goodman brand names. Under the Neiman Marcus brand, Neiman Marcus Direct primarily offers women's apparel, accessories and home furnishings. Horchow offers upscale home furnishings, linens, decorative accessories and tabletop items. Horchow, a furniture brand owned by Neiman Marcus, is sold in a limited number of Neiman Marcus locations. There are also Horchow Finale Stores, with two locations. Though Horchow items are also found in Neiman Marcus Last Call stores, the Horchow Finale stores focus on furniture & home items. The two remaining Horchow Finale Stores are in the Dallas, Texas area. The original Horchow Finale location closed in 2009 to make way for the George W. Bush Presidential Library. The Inwood Village location of Horchow Finale became a showcase Neiman Marcus Last Call in March 2010.

Lyman G. Bloomingdale (1841–1905) was a Jewish-American businessman who in April 1872, with his brother Joseph, founded Bloomingdales Department Store on 56th Street in New York City. The son of a Bavarian Jew, Benjamin Bloomimgdale, Lyman and his brother Joseph and were trained in the retailing of ladies clothing at their father's store. Going into business for themselves, the Bloomingdale brothers' new store sold a wide variety of European fashions, anchored through their own buying office in Paris. Their success resulted in the business outgrowing its premises and in 1886 they relocated operations to its famous present-day location at 59th Street and Third Avenue where Bloomingdale became one of the most widely recognized brand names in the world. Brother Joseph Bloomingdale retired from the business on New Years Day 1896 but Lyman remained involved until his death in 1905 at Elberon, New Jersey. A benefactor to a variety of causes and cultural institutions, in 1901 Lyman Bloomimgdale donated a Washington Allston painting to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art[1] and in his will written in 1904, left $100,000 for charitable purposes. Lyman's son, Samuel J. Bloomingdale, took over as head of the department store and proved a very capable manager and an astute marketing innovator who significantly expanded the business. Grandson Alfred S. Bloomingdale. Bloomingdale's is an American department store owned by Macy's, Inc. (formerly Federated Department Stores). Bloomingdale's started in 1861 when brothers Joseph and Lyman G. Bloomingdale started selling hoop-skirts in their Ladies Notions' Shop on Manhattan's Lower East Side. The pair were sons of Benjamin Bloomingdale, a Bavarian-born salesman who had lived in North Carolina and Kansas, and settled in New York City. In 1872 the Bloomingdale brothers opened their first store at 938 Third Avenue, New York City. Bloomingdales' biggest competitors are Lord & Taylor, Neiman Marcus, & Saks Fifth Avenue. Bloomingdale's also competes with Nordstrom and Von Maur.

Saks Fifth Avenue - is a luxury American specialty store owned and operated by Saks Fifth Avenue Enterprises (SFAE), a subsidiary of Saks Incorporated. It competes in the high-end specialty store market in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, i.e. 'the 3 B's' Bergdorf, Barneys, Bloomingdale's and Lord & Taylor. The company headquarters and the company-designated flagship store are in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.[2][3] Saks Fifth Avenue is the successor of a business founded by Andrew Saks in 1867 and incorporated in New York in 1902 as Saks & Company. Andrew died in 1912 and in 1923 Saks & Co. merged with Gimbel Brothers, Inc., operating as a separate autonomous subsidiary. On September 15, 1924, Horace Saks and Bernard Gimbel opened Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City. When Bernard's brother Adam Gimbel became President of Saks Fifth Avenue in 1926 after Bernard's sudden passing, the company took on national aspirations. The very first branch store opened in 1851 in the city of Palm Beach, Florida as a resort store, followed by a Southampton, New York resort store in 1928. The first full-line year-round Saks store was opened in Chicago in 1929, followed by another resort store in Miami Beach, Florida. In 1938 Saks expanded to the West Coast, opening in Beverly Hills, California. By the end of the 1930s Saks Fifth Avenue had a total of 10 stores, including resort locations such as Sun Valley, Mount Stowe and Newport. More full-line stores followed with Detroit in 1940 and Pittsburgh in 1949. In downtown Pittsburgh, the company moved to its own freestanding location approximately one block from its former home on the fourth floor in the downtown Gimbel's flagship. The San Francisco location opened in 1952. More expansion followed from the 1960s through the 1990s including Texas, the Midwest, and the South. BATUS Inc. acquired Gimbel Bros., Inc. and its Saks Fifth Avenue subsidiary in 1973 as part of its diversification strategy. In 1990, BATUS sold Saks to Investcorp S.A., which after investing in the company and weathering the early 1990s recession took Saks public in 1996 as Saks Holdings, Inc. In 1998, Saks Holdings Inc. was acquired by Proffitt's, Inc., then the parent company of Proffitt's among other department stores. Upon closing of the acquisition, Proffitt's, Inc. changed its name to Saks Incorporated. In 2005 vendors filed against Saks alleging unlawful chargebacks. The SEC formally investigated the complaint and Saks settled with the SEC in 2007.[4]
In August 2007 the United States Postal Service began an experimental program selling the plus Zip Code extension to businesses. The first company to do this was Saks Fifth Avenue which received the zip code of 10022-SHOE for the eighth floor shoe department in its flagship Fifth Avenue (Manhattan) store.[5] Today, the New York flagship store accounts for a significant amount of the entire chain's annual revenue. Since 2000, Saks has closed a number of locations, including White Plains, Garden City, and Southampton in New York, as well as other suburban, and "downtown" location around the country. The focus has been to have a smaller number of stores in each key market, and thus make those stores destinations within their respective markets. As an example, the Saks 5th Avenue location at the Shops at Prudential Center in Boston, is the only Saks 5th Avenue stores in the greater Boston metropolitan area, and the location in Bala-Cynwd is the only location in the greater Philadelphia market [6]. The chain's strategy for international expansion focuses on underserved luxury markets. Its first international location, operated under license by SFAE, opened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, courting the wealth of the oil-rich Middle East. Other locations now include the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and two stores in Mexico City. A new store is planned for Kazakhstan. In January 2009, the company opened a second location in Saudi Arabia, in the city of Jeddah.[7] and coming soon opening in Puerto Rico in Plaza Internacional, the opening of this stores and this grand mall is estimated in finally 2012.

Rich’s Department Stores - Founded in 1867 by Morris Rich, a Hungarian Jewish immigrant who grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, who had borrowed $500 from his brother Emanuel and opened M. Rich Dry Goods general store in 1867. The store was at 36 Whitehall Street, and was run by Morris Rich. It was renamed M. Rich & Co. in 1871, when his brother Emanuel joined him; it was again renamed M. Rich & Bros. in 1876 when the third brother Daniel joined. In 1872 it moved across the street to the corner with Hunter Street (now MLK Street), and in 1881 to 54 and 56 Whitehall Street, later adding 52 in 1906. In 1901 it became a true department store by dividing merchandise into separated sections, and was incorporated as M. Rich & Bros. Co. It became simply Rich's in 1924. Two innovative ideas that Rich tried were the barter system and a credit system. Daniel's son Walter succeeded his uncle Morris as Rich's president from 1926 to 1947, and was succeeded by the grandson of Morris Rich Richard H. Rich. Under the leadership of Richard Rich, affectionately known as Dick Rich, Rich's began expansion in the 1950s. Rich's had moved outside the Atlanta area for its first new store in 1955 when a store in Knoxville Tennessee was opened. Rich's opened its first suburban store at Lenox Square in 1959, Georgia's first shopping mall. The open-air mall shared space with the other major Atlanta department store, Davison's. That same year Rich's also opened a store at Belvedere Plaza Shopping Center, a large two-level strip mall in Belvedere Park near Decatur and more recently famous for its "wigs and beepers" store. Rich's sold off its Knoxville store to Miller's, as it re-focused on its Georgia stores. Rich's most aggressive expansion was during the 1960s and 1970s. Four more stores opened in the Atlanta area in the 1960s, two of those enormous three story full line stores. While this expansion resulted in continued success of the chain, it chipped away at the business of the downtown store. By this time, Rich's was the leading regional department store in the country, though it remained largely unknown by the general public outside of Georgia. This would soon change, however. Throughout the 1970s, four more Rich's locations opened in Georgia including one in Augusta, the first in the state outside of Atlanta. Rich's also began an aggressive expansion with stores in Alabama and South Carolina. Also, there were plans much later in the early 1990s to expand Rich's into Charlotte, but these were scrapped. Of all the stores out of state, stores opened in Greenville, Columbia and Birmingham with two (adding a third in 1986) in Birmingham, creating stiffer competition in the city against regional chains Pizitz, Loveman's and Parisian. This expansion also strained the company financially, and the sudden death of Richard Rich in 1975 threw the company into turmoil. It was rumored that the surviving descendants were incapable of running the company, and the store was ultimately sold out to Federated Department Stores (now known as Macy's, Inc.).

Pizitz Department Stores - Founded by Louis Pizitz, a Jewish immigrant from Belaus, in 1899 on the site of its flagship building in downtown Birmingham. At its peak it operated 12 other stores, mostly in the Birmingham area with several locations in Huntsville and other Alabama cities. It was sold to McRae's in December 1986, and all former Pizitz stores became McRae's. Many of the former Pizitz former locations are now closed, but the Pizitz family (via Pizitz Management Group) still owns the buildings of most of its former stores. This became an issue when the McRae's chain was sold to Belk Department Stores of Charlotte, North Carolina in 2005.

Parisian Department Stores - Founded in 1880 by Jewish sisters Bertha and Estella Sommers under the name Parisian Dry Goods & Millinery Company. The Sommers sisters moved the store three times and sold it in 1911 to Jewish businessmen Louis Gelders and G. W. Beringer, who renamed it The Parisian Company. Lauren Bloch, the store's general manager, bought it in 1918 and renamed in Bloch's Parisian. Carl Hess, a German immigrant, and William Holiner bought the store in the early 1920s and moved it to a large building on the corner of 3rd Avenue North and 18th Street in Birmingham in 1928. The Great Depression pushed the company into receivership and near demise in 1932. The store moved into the remodeled Roden Block on 2nd Avenue North in 1937 and this remained the flagship store until 1989. The business eventually emerged from receivership and grew in the 1940s and 1950s under the management of Carl's son Emil. In October 1950 the store received a major renovation that included excavation of a storage basement and a mezzanine-level men's store. The new entrance, clad in plate glass and Alabama marble, featured the nation's first installation of "Pittcomatic" touch-action hydraulically-operated doors, as well as backlit plexi-glass and neon signage. Hess and Lenny Salit (son-in-law of William Holiner) developed a popular interest-free credit program in the 1950s, and the store was one of the first in the country to offer free gift wrapping, free shipping and a liberal return policy. Parisian opened a second store at Five Points West in 1963. Though expectation were low, their early foray into the suburbs was an immediate hit. The company opened a third store in Vestavia Hills in 1965 and the fourth, at Eastwood Mall, in 1969. For many years the company's corporate offices and warehouse were located in a former Dolly Madison bakery adjacent to the railroad tracks at 26th Street and 11th Avenue North. In the 1970s, Parisian added stores in Huntsville, Montgomery and Florence. Parisian's owners took the company public in 1983, raising $22.5 million for expansion. Parisian anchored major mall developments, including Bel Air Mall in Mobile and Madison Square Mall in Huntsville, both of which opened in 1984. A second offering in 1986 raised an additional $18 million, allowing the chain to expand into Dothan, Pensacola, Chattanooga and Atlanta. Beginning in 1988, Jon Coffelt was commissioned to paint over 100 original works for Parisian by store designer Jim Mitchell, helping launch the artist's career. Hooker Company, an Australian investor, bought Parisian in 1988 for $250 million and pledged $125 for an aggressive store expansion. Hooker filed for bankruptcy during the late 1980s economic downturn. Donald Hess, who had taken over operations from father, Emil, bought the chain Parisian back and — heavy with debt — sold a 45% interest to Lehman Brothers in 1990, which injected $35 million into the company. Parisian opened nine new stores 1992 and opened five more stores in 1993, stretching its footprint into Detroit and Nashville. Parisian joined Proffitt's Inc., in 1996. In September of 1998, Proffitt’s, Inc. and Saks Holdings, Inc. completed a merger transaction where Saks Fifth Avenue and its Off 5th outlet stores became the Saks Fifth Avenue Enterprises division of Proffitt’s, Inc. At that time, Proffitt’s, Inc. was renamed Saks, Inc. At its height, Saks, Inc. operated more than 250 mid-level to high end department stores under its Saks Fifth Avenue Enterprises group, the Parisian division, the Northern Department Store Group (Younkers, Herberger's, Carson Pirie Scott, Bergner's, Boston Store), and its Southern Department Store Group (Proffitt's and McRae's), plus more than 50 Club Libby Lu specialty shops. The Proffitt's and McRae's stores were sold in 2005 to Belk, Inc of Charlotte, North Carolina. In 2006, Saks' Parisian division, headed by President and CEO Toni Browning, operated 38 stores in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Particularly in larger markets, Parisian was placed in a marketing tier between the luxury-oriented Saks chain and the company's other more moderate nameplates.


Loveman’s Department Stores - Founded by A. B. Loveman, a Jewish immigrant from Hungary, who opened his first general merchandise store in Greensboro, Alabama, in the late 1860s. In 1887 he relocated to Birmingham and opened A. B. Loveman's Dry Goods Emporium at 1915 2nd Avenue North. He was soon joined by Moses Joseph of Selma and the store became Loveman & Joseph. In 1889, with the addition of Emil Loeb, the company became Loveman, Joseph, & Loeb. Loveman, Joseph, & Loeb constructed a large new department store in 1890 facing 19th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenue North. The store was expanded in 1899. By 1911, Loveman's was known as the largest, most magnificant department store south of the Ohio River. It advertised over 60 individual departments and served as a state textbook depository. In 1917, an add-on known as the Loveman's Annex was built between the main building and the the site later occupied by the Alabama Theatre. In 1923, after Loveman's son Joseph took over the company, a majority ownership stake was acquired by the newly-formed City Stores Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (now CSS, Inc.). The holding company also took control of New Orleans, Louisiana's Maison Blanche Co. and Memphis, Tennessee's B. Lowenstein, Inc. It serviced all of its stores through a central buyer, but operations were kept under the local control of the individual chains. The downtown store was destroyed in a massive fire which started in the sub-basement on March 10, 1934, sparing only the exterior of the Annex. The store reopened within a few weeks at a temporary location in the former Parisian building a block away while a new Loveman's building was built on the site of the fire. Material salvaged from the demolished building was used by the Civil Works Administration to begin construction of municipal shops near the Birmingham Jail. The new store, completed in 1935, featured a bold, clean art-deco style. A clock on the corner of 19th Street and 3rd Avenue became a popular landmark and meeting place. The new store was one of the first in the United States to be fully air conditioned and the first in Alabama to have an escalator.
Comptroller Orville Schanbacher was named president of the company in 1947. In June 1949 Loveman's opened a new "store for the home" facing 2nd Avenue North, connected to the 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors of the main store by a bridge over the alley. Other stores opened in Bessemer and Montgomery. During the Civil Rights Movement, Loveman's was one of the many downtown stores picketed to promote the hiring of more African American clerks. Under president John Breyer the retailer and completed a major remodeling of its downtown store in 1969 and added a 400-space parking deck in 1970. Breyer also extended the store to new locations at West Lake Mall and Western Hills Mall in 1969 and 1970, respectively. Another Century Plaza location debuted in 1976. Its opening was marked by a balloon launch and the slogan, "a whole lotta store!", which was adopted by the entire chain until complaints from school teachers led to a change. Other stores were located in Huntsville and Montgomery. Loveman's parent, the City Stores Company, filed for Title XI bankruptcy in 1979 and sought a buyer to take control of the Loveman's chain as a whole. Sharp rises in prime lending rates and uncertainty about the wider economy left that effort fruitless. On April 2, 1980 President Jerry Sklar announced that all stores would close that week. The last day of business was Saturday, April 5. The firm's 700 employees, 500 of which worked in the Birmingham area, were let go with modest severance packages based on tenure. The Century Plaza and Western Hills Mall locations, complete with their inventories, were purchased by rival Pizitz and reopened within weeks (opening the way for Pizitz' departure from Eastwood Mall). Four other locations (downtown, Bessemer, Montgomery and Huntsville) held liquidation sales at the end of April. The Birmingham Public Library board evaluated the possibility of taking over the downtown store for a new central library. The 1935 Loveman's building downtown was renovated in 1998 as the home of the McWane Science Center.

The Motion Picture industry:

In 1903 the four Warner brothers bought a used Edison Kinetoscope projector for $1,000 and repaired it. They began showing what they called the "magic lantern pictures" on the walls in beer halls. 1909 Edison's General Film Co. sued Warner Brothers for violating their copyright to the motion picture machine and forced them to close their company. At that time, the Warners and other Jews were making illegal films in Brooklyn. They fled Edison's private detectives for Los Angeles where lax laws let them steal the film business away from Thomas Edison. Later this same skullduggery occurred once again. Two gentile inventors. Lee De Forrest and Theodore Case, came up with the "talking machine" sound system. The same Jewish producers also stole this invention and the Jew Al Jolson came out with the first "talkie" film - "The Jazz Singer."

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. is an American producer of film and television entertainment. One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York City. Warner Bros. has several subsidiary companies, including Warner Bros. Studios, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Warner Bros. Television, Warner Bros. Animation, Warner Home Video, New Line Cinema, TheWB.com, and DC Comics. Warner owns half of The CW Television Network. The corporate name honors the four founding Warner brothers (born "Wonsal" or "Wonskolaser") to a family of Polish Jews from the village of Krasnosielc - Harry (born Hirsz), Albert (born Aaron), Sam (born Szmul), and Jack (born Itzhak), who emigrated from Poland, which was at that time part of the Russian Empire, to London, Ontario, Canada. The three elder brothers began in the movie theatre business, having acquired a movie projector with which they showed films in the mining towns of Pennsylvania and Ohio. They opened their first theater, the Cascade, in New Castle, Pennsylvania in 1903. (The site of the Cascade is now the Cascade Center, a shopping, dining and entertainment complex honoring its Warner Bros. heritage.) In 1924, movie theater magnate Marcus Loew had a problem. He had bought Metro Pictures Corporation (founded in 1916) and Goldwyn Pictures (founded in 1917) to provide a steady supply of films for his large theater chain, Loew's Theatres. However, these purchases created a need for someone to oversee his new Hollywood operations, since longtime assistant Nicholas Schenck was needed in New York to oversee the theaters. Loew addressed the situation by buying Louis B. Mayer Pictures on April 16, 1924. Because of his decade-long success as a producer, Mayer was made a vice-president of Loew's and head of studio operations in California, with Harry Rapf and Irving Thalberg as heads of production. For decades MGM was listed on movie title cards as "Controlled by Loew's, Inc."

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., or MGM, is an American media company, Mayer Pictures involved primarily in the production and distribution of films and television programs. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures. In 1924, movie theater magnate Marcus Loew had a problem. He had bought Metro Pictures Corporation (founded in 1916) and Goldwyn Pictures (founded in 1917) to provide a steady supply of films for his large theater chain, Loew's Theatres. However, these purchases created a need for someone to oversee his new Hollywood operations, since longtime assistant Nicholas Schenck was needed in New York to oversee the theaters. Loew addressed the situation by buying Louis B. Mayer Pictures on April 16, 1924. Because of his decade-long success as a producer, Mayer was made a vice-president of Loew's and head of studio operations in California, with Harry Rapf and Irving Thalberg as heads of production. For decades MGM was listed on movie title cards as "Controlled by Loew's, Inc." Though Loew's Metro was the dominant partner, the new studio inherited Goldwyn's studios in Culver City, California, the former Goldwyn mascot Leo the Lion (which replaced Metro's parrot symbol), and the Goldwyn corporate motto Ars Gratia Artis ("Art for Art's Sake"). Also inherited from Goldwyn was a runaway production, Ben–Hur, which had been filming in Rome for months at great cost. Mayer scrapped most of what had been shot and relocated production to Culver City. Though Ben–Hur was the most costly film made up to its time, it became MGM's first great public-relations triumph, establishing an image for the company that persisted for years. Also in 1925, with the success of both The Big Parade and Ben–Hur, MGM surpassed Universal Studios as the largest studio in Hollywood, a distinction it would maintain for over 30 years. Marcus Loew died in 1927, and control of Loew's passed to Nicholas Schenck. In 1929, William Fox of Fox Film Corporation bought the Loew family's holdings with Schenck's assent. Mayer and Thalberg disagreed with the decision. Mayer used political connections to persuade the Justice Department to delay final approval of the deal on antitrust grounds. During this time, in the summer of 1929, Fox was badly hurt in an automobile accident. By the time he recovered, the stock market crash in the fall of 1929 had nearly wiped Fox out and ended any chance of the Loew's merger going through. Schenck and Mayer had never gotten along (Mayer reportedly referred to his boss as "Mr. Skunk") , and the abortive Fox merger increased the animosity between the two men.

Universal Pictures (sometimes called Universal City Studios or Universal Studios for short), a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is one of the six major movie studios. Founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, a German-Jewish immigrant from Laupheim who settled in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where he managed a clothing store. On a buying trip in 1905 to Chicago, he was struck by the popularity of nickelodeons. One story has Laemmle watching a box office for hours, counting patrons and calculating the day's take. Within weeks of his Chicago trip, Laemmle gave up dry goods to buy the first of several nickelodeons. For Laemmle and other such entrepreneurs, the creation in 1908 of the Edison-backed Motion Picture Trust meant that exhibitors were expected to pay fees for Trust-produced films they showed. Based on Edison's patent for the electric motor used in cameras and projectors, along with other patents, the Trust collected fees on all aspects of movie production and exhibition, and attempted to enforce a monopoly on distribution. It was believed that the productions were meant to be used for another company but the firm turned Universal down.are in New York City. Universal Pictures is the second-longest-lived Hollywood studio; Viacom-owned Paramount Pictures is the oldest by a month.

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation – also known as 20th Century Fox, or simply Fox – is one of the six major American film studios. The studio is a subsidiary of News Corporation, the media conglomerate owned by Rupert Murdoch. The company was founded on May 31, 1935, as the result of the merger of Fox Film Corporation, founded by a Jew named William Fox (Fuchs) in 1915, and Twentieth Century Pictures, founded in 1933 by Darryl F. Zanuck, Joseph Schenck, Raymond Griffith and William Goetz. The Fox Film Corporation was formed in 1915 by the Jewish American theater "chain" pioneer William Fox, who formed Fox Film Corporation. When rival Marcus Loew died in 1927, Fox offered to buy the Loew family's holdings. Loew's Inc. controlled more than 200 theaters as well as the MGM studio (whose films are currently distributed internationally by Fox). When the family agreed to the sale, the merger of Fox and Loew's Inc. was announced in 1929. But MGM studio-boss Louis B. Mayer, not included in the deal, fought back. Using political connections, Mayer called on the Justice Department's anti-trust unit to block the merger. Fortunately for Mayer, Fox was badly injured in a car crash in the summer of 1929, and by the time he recovered he had lost most of his fortune in the fall 1929 stock market crash, putting an end to the Loew's merger. Over-extended and close to bankruptcy, Fox was stripped of his empire and ended up in jail. Fox Film, with more than 500 theatres, was placed in receivership. A bank-mandated reorganization propped the company up for a time, but it was clear a merger was the only way Fox Film could survive. Under the new president Sidney Kent, the new owners began negotiating with the upstart but powerful independent Twentieth Century Pictures in the early spring of 1935. Twentieth Century Pictures was an independent Hollywood motion picture production company created in 1933 by Joseph Schenck, the former president of United Artists, Darryl F. Zanuck from Warner Brothers, William Goetz from Fox Films, and Raymond Griffith. Financial backing came from Schenck's older brother Nicholas Schenck and the father-in-law of Goetz, Louis B. Mayer, the head of MGM Studios. Company product was distributed by United Artists, and was filmed at various studios. Joe Schenck and Fox management agreed to a merger; Spyros Skouras, then manager of the Fox-West Coast theaters, helped in the merger (and later became president of the new company). Although it was still much smaller than Fox, Twentieth Century was the senior partner in the merger. At first, it was expected that the new company would be called "Fox-Twentieth Century." However, 20th Century brought more to bargaining table besides Schenck and Zanuck. It was profitable and had more talent than Fox, the new company was called The Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, and began trading on May 31, 1935.

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment. The studio, founded in 1919 as Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film Sales by brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and Joe Brandt, released its first feature film in August 1922. It adopted the Columbia Pictures name in 1924 and went public two years later. In its early years a minor player in Hollywood, Columbia began to grow in the late 1920s, spurred by a successful association with director Frank Capra. Following a reorganization, partner Brandt was bought out, and Harry Cohn took over as president. In an effort to improve its image, the Cohn brothers renamed the company Columbia Pictures Corporation in 1924. Cohn remained head of production as well, thus concentrating enormous power in his hands. He would run Columbia for the next 34 years, the second-longest tenure of any studio chief, behind only Warner Bros.' Jack Warner. In an industry rife with nepotism, Columbia's was particularly notorious. Columbia's product line consisted mostly of moderately budgeted features and short subjects including comedies, sports films, various serials, and cartoons. Columbia gradually moved into the production of higher-budget fare, eventually joining the second tier of Hollywood studios along with United Artists and Universal.

Paramount Pictures is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. Paramount is consistently ranked as one of the top-grossing movie studios. Paramount Pictures can trace its beginning to the creation in May 1912 of the Famous Players Film Company. Founder Hungarian-born Adolph Zukor, who had been an early investor in nickelodeons, saw that movies appealed mainly to working-class immigrants. With partners Daniel Frohman and Charles Frohman he planned to offer feature-length films that would appeal to the middle class by featuring the leading theatrical players of the time (leading to the slogan "Famous Players in Famous Plays"). By mid-1913, Famous Players had completed five films, and Zukor was on his way to success. That same year, another aspiring producer, Jesse L. Lasky, opened his Lasky Feature show Company with money borrowed from his brother-in-law, Samuel Goldfish, later known as Samuel Goldwyn. The Lasky company hired as their first employee a stage director with virtually no film experience, Cecil B. DeMille, who would find a suitable location site in Hollywood, near Los Angeles, for his first film, The Squaw Man. Beginning in 1914, both Lasky and Famous Players released their films through a start-up company, Paramount Pictures Corporation, organized early that year by a Utah theatre owner, W. W. Hodkinson, who had bought and merged several smaller firms. Hodkinson and actor, director, producer Hobart Bosworth had started production of a series of Jack London movies. Paramount was the first successful nation-wide distributor; until this time, films were sold on a state-wide or regional basis. Not only was this inefficient, but it had proved costly to film producers. Also while Famous Players and Lasky were privately owned Paramount was a corporation so the other two companies were merged into Paramount. Soon the ambitious Zukor, unused to taking a secondary role, began courting Hodkinson and Lasky. In 1916, Zukor maneuvered a three-way merger of his Famous Players, the Lasky Company, and Paramount. The new company, Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, grew quickly, with Lasky and his partners Goldfish and DeMille running the production side, Hiram Abrams in charge of distribution, and Zukor making great plans. With only the exhibitor-owned First National as a rival, Famous Players-Lasky and its "Paramount Pictures" soon dominated the business.

[Steven L. Akins]

As a direct result of Jewish nepotism in the Hollywood Motion Picture industry, Jews have always been disproportionately over-represented in the field of acting and entertainmet:

A Partial list of Jewish actors and actresses (and their real names):

Paula Abdul
Jack Albertson (Harold Albertson)
Jason Alexander (Jay Scott Greenspan)
Woody Allen (Allen Stewart Konigsberg)
Ed Ames (Edmund Dantes Urick)
Adam Arkin
Allan Arkin
Tom Arnold
David Arquette
Rosanna Arquette
Beatrice Arthur (Bernice Frankel)
Ed Asner
Bronco Billy Anderson (Maxwell Henry Aronson)
Lauren Bacall (Betty Joan Perske)
Barbara Bain (Millicent Fogel)
John Banner
Ellen Barkin
Roseanne Barr
Barbara Barrie (Barbara Ann Berman)
Julian Beck
Richard Belzer
Richard Benjamin
Jack Benny (Benjamin Kubelsky)
Amber Benson
Robby Benson (Robin David Segal)
Elizabeth Berkley
Milton Berle (Milton Berlinger)
Sandra Bernhard
Mayim Bialik
Craig Bierko
Jack Black
Michael Ian Black (Michael Ian Schwartz)
Mel Blanch (Melvin Jerome Blank)
Yasmine Bleeth
Tom Bosley (Thomas Edward Bosley)
Zach Braff
Matthew Broderick
Adrien Brody
Mel Brooks (Melvin Kaminsky)
Lenny Bruce (Leonard Alfred Schneider)
George Burns (Nathan Birnbaum)
Red Buttons (Aaron Chwatt)
James Caan
Susan Cabot (Harriet Shapiro)
Sid Caesar (Isaac Sidney Caesar)
James Callis
Dyan Cannon (Samile Diane Friesen)
Eddie Cantor (Edward Israel Iskowitz)
Kate Capshaw (Kathleen Sue Nail)
Lisa Bonet
Helena Bonham Carter
Lee J. Cobb (Leo Jacob)
Scott Cohen
Mindy Cohn
Joan Collins
Katie Couric
Peter Coyote (Rachmil Pinchus Ben Mosha Cohon)
Billy Crystal
Jamie Lee Curtis
Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz)
Rodney Dangerfield (Jacob Cohen)
Larry David
Sammy Davis Jr.
Dustin Diamond
Neil Diamond
Michael Douglas
Jerry Douglas (Gerald Rubenstein)
Kirk Douglas (Issur Danielovitch)
Rachel Dratch
Fran Drescher
Richard Dreyfus
David Duchovny
Bob Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmerman)
Bob Einstein
Susie Essman
Douglas Fairbanks (Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman)
Peter Falk
Corey Feldman
Harvey Fierstein
Fyvush Finkel (Philip Finkel)
Carrie Fisher
Al Franken (Alan Stuart Franken)
Bonnie Franklin
Stephen Fry
Allen Funt
Dan Futterman
Eva Gabor
Zsa Zsa Gabor (Sári Gábor)
Estelle Getty (Estelle Scher)
John Garfield (Jacob Julius Garfinkle)
Jeff Garlin
Brad Garrett (Bradley Harold Gerstenfeld)
Brian George
Gina Gershon
Jami Gertz
Kathie Lee Gifford (Kathryn Lee Epstein)
Melissa Gilbert
Sara Gilbert
Paul Michael Glaser (Paul Manfred Glaser)
Paulette Goddard (Marion Pauline Levy)
Tracey Gold (Tracey Claire Fisher)
Jeff Goldblum
Elliott Gould (Elliott Goldstein)
Lee Grant (Lyova Haskell Rosenthal)
Lorne Greene (Lyon Himan "Chaim" Green)
Jennifer Grey
Charles Grodin
Christopher Guest
Steve Guttenberg
Buddy Hackett (Leonard Hacker)
Monty Hall (Monte Halperin)
Estelle Harris (Estelle Nussbaum)
Mary Hart
Nina Hartley
Laurence Harvey (Laruschka Mischa Skikne)
Goldie Hawn
Anthony Heald
Jessica Hecht
Dan Hedaya
Barbara Hershey (Barbara Lynn Herzstein)
Steven Hill (Solomon Krakovsky)
Judd Hirsch
Dustin Hoffman
Judy Holliday (Judith Tuvim)
John Houseman (Jacques Haussmann)
Leslie Howard (Leslie Howard Steiner)
Amy Irving
Peter Jacobson
Sam Jaffe (Shalom Jaffe)
Ron Jeremy
Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson)
Madeline Kahn (Madeline Gail Wolfson)
Toni Kalem
Carol Kane
Gabe Kaplan
Andy Kaufman
Julie Kavner
Danny Kaye (David Daniel Kaminsky)
Lainie Kazan (Lanie Levine)
Alan King (Irwin Alan Kniberg)
Harvey Keitel
Richard Kind
Robert Klein
Kevin Kline
Richard Kline
Jack Klugman (Jacob Joachim Klugman)
Walter Koenig
Susan Kohner
Harvey Korman (Harvey Herschel Korman)
Stepfanie Kramer
Marc Kudisch
Lisa Kudrow
Hede Lamar (Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler)
Martin Landau
John Landis
Michael Landon (Eugene Maurice Orowitz)
Louise Lasser
Piper Laurie (Rosetta Jacobs)
Linda Lavin
Marc Lawrence (Max Goldsmith)
Steve Lawrence (Sidney Liebowitz)
Carol Leifer
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Michael Lembeck
Al Lewis (Albert Meister)
Eugene Levy
Daniel Day-Lewis
Jerry Lewis (Jerome Levitch)
Richard Lewis
Shari Lewis (Sonia Phyllis Hurwitz)
Paul Lieberstein
Judith Light
Hal Linden (Harold Lip****z)
Peggy Lipton
Philip Loeb
Peter Lorre (László Löwenstein)
Tina Louise (Tina Blacker)
Courtney Love (Courtney Michelle Harrison)
Jon Lovitz
Joan Lunden (Joan Elise Blunden)
Joshua Malina
Camryn Manheim (Debra Frances Manheim)
Cindy Margolis
Julianna Margulies
Brett Marx
The Marx Bothers: Grocho, Chico, Harpo, Gummo & Zeppo (Julius, Leonard, Adolph, Milton & Herbert Marx)
Bill Macy (Wolf Marvin Garber)
Howie Mandel (Howard Michael Mandel)
Dinah Manoff
Ross Martin (Martin Rosenblatt)
Jackie Mason (Yacov Moshe Maza)
Richard Masur
Marlee Matlin
Walter Matthau (Walter John Matthow)
Melanie Mayron
Paul Mazurka (Irwin Mazursky)
Debra Messing
Dina Meyer
Bette Midler
Larry Miller
Sasha Mitchell
Chesty Morgan (Lillian Wilczkowsky)
Shelly Morrison (Rachel Mitrani)
Rick Moranis (Frederick Allan Moranis)
Rob Morrow
Victor “Vic” Morrow
Don Most
Jan Murray (Murray Janofsky)
Judd Nelson
Barry Newman
Laraine Newman
Paul Newman (Paul Leonard Newman)
Leonard Nimoy
Ken Olin
Frank Oz
Sarah Jessica Parker
Mandy Patinkin (Mandel Bruce Patinkin)
Rhea Perlman
Ron Perlman
Sean Penn
Jeremy Piven
Kevin Pollak
Natalie Portman (Natalie Hershlag)
David Proval
Rain Pryor
Gilda Radner
Ted Raimi
Harold Ramis
Tony Randall (Arthur Leonard Rosenberg)
Charlotte Rae (Charlotte Rae Lubotsky)
Carl Reiner
Rob Reiner
Paul Reiser
Paul Reubens (Paul Rubenfeld)
Adam Rich
Peter Riegert
Don Rickles (Donald Jay Rickles)
Ron Rifkin (Saul M. Rifkin)
Joan Rivers (Joan Molinsky)
Doris Roberts (Doris Mae Meltzer)
Tanya Roberts (Victoria Leigh Blum)
Edward G. Robinson (Emanuel Goldenberg)
Alan Rosenberg
Lilian Roth (Lillian Rutstein)
Paul Rudd
Katie Sagal
Bob Saget
Adam Sandler
Ben Savage
Fred Savage
Rebecca Schaeffer
Richard Schiff
Rob Schneider
David Schwimmer
Kyra Sedgwick
George Segal
Steven Seagal
Peter Sellers (Richard Henry Sellers)
Jerry Seinfeld
Rod Serling (Rodman Edward Serling)
Jane Seymour (Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg)
Garry Shandling
William Shatner
Wallace Shawn
Harry Shearer
Ally Sheedy
Dinah Shore (Frances Rose Shore)
Pauly Shore
Gene Simmons
Richard Simmons
Ron Silver
Jonathan Silverman
Phil Silvers (Philip Silver)
Helen Slater
Joey Slotnick
Wendie Jo Sperber
Brent Spiner
Susan Strasberg
Jerry Stiller (Gerald Isaac Stiller)
Harold J. Stone (Harold Hochstein)
The Three Stooges: Larry, Curly, Moe & Shemp Howard (Louis Feinberg, Jerome, Moses & Samuel Horwitz)
Jill St. John (Jill Arlyn Oppenheim)
Ben Stein (Benjamin Jeremy Stein)
David Steinberg
Howard Stern
Jon Stewart (Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz)
Barbara Streisand
Ben Stiller
Jeffrey Tambor
Elizabeth Taylor
Stephen Tobolowsky
Mel Torme (Melvin Howard Torma)
Robert Trebor (Robert Schenkman)
Mike Wallace (Myron Leon Wallechinsky)
Eli Wallach
Jessica Walter
Samuel Wanamaker (Samuel Watmacher)
Zoe Wanamaker
Jack Warden (John Warden Lebzelter)
Lesley Ann Warren
Stephen Weber
Mae West (Mary Jane West)
Henry Winkler
Gene Wilder (Jerome Silberman)
Anson Williams (Anson William Heimlick)
Debra Winger
Shelly Winters (Shirley Schrift)
Scott Wolf
Ed Wynn (Isaiah Edwin Leopold)
Abe Vigoda (Abraham Charles Vigoda)

[Steven L. Akins]

And, let us not forget the Jews who have found their way to the top in the businesses of finance and government:

World Bank President: James D. Wolfensohn

Federal Reserve System Chairman: Alan Greenspan

Economic Policy Institute President: Larry Mishel
Vice President: Ross Eisenbrey

International Futures and Options Exchange CEO: Hugh Freedberg

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) Chairman: Nickolas J. Neubauer

New York Board of Trade Acting President, CEO, Chairman, and Chairman
of the Board: Charles H. Falk
Vice Chairman of the Board: Frederick W. Schoenhut

American National Standards Institute (ANSI) President and CEO: Mark
W. Hurwitz

American Corn Growers Association CEO (in 2000): Gary Goldberg

Electronic Retailing Association Chairman: Linda A. Goldstein

Gemological Institute of America President: Lee Berg

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Previous) Chairman: Arthur
Levitt
Secretary: Jonathan G. Katz
Commissioner: Cynthia A. Glassman
Commissioner: Harvey J. Goldschmid

Direct Marketing Association President: H. Robert Weintzen

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments Chairman of the Board:
Richard Danzig

National Economic Council Chairman: Stephen Friedman

Turnaround Management Association Chairman: Randall S. Eisenberg
Penultimate Chairman: Melanie Rovner Cohen

American Council for Capital Formation President: Mark A. Bloomfield

Business Council for Sustainable Energy Chairman: Scott A. Wiener

Consumer Energy Council of America President: Ellen Berman

Consumers Union Director: Gene Kimmelman
Policy Analyst: Adam Goldberg


Jews in George Bush's Administration:

Richard Perle, Bush foreign policy advisors, he is the chairman of the
Pentagon's Defense Policy Board.

Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Defense Secretary, and member of Perle's
Defense Policy Board, in the Pentagon.

Douglas Feith, Under Secretary of Defense and Policy Advisor at the
Pentagon.

Edward Luttwak, Member of the National Security Study Group of the
Department of Defence at the Pentagon.

Henry Kissinger, Pentagon Advisors

Dov Zakheim, Under Secretary of Defense, Comptroller, and Chief
Financial Officer (CFO) for the Department of Defense.

Kenneth Adelman, Pentagon Advisors

Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff.

Robert Satloff, U.S. National Security Council Advisor

Elliott Abrams, National Security Council Advisor.

Marc Grossman, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.

Richard Haass, Director of Policy Planning at the State Department and
Ambassador at large.

Robert Zoellick, U.S. Trade Representative

Ari Fleischer, Official White House Spokesman for the Bush (Jr)
Administration.

James Schlesinger, One of many Pentagon Advisors,

David Frum, White House speechwriter

Joshua Bolten, White House Deputy Chief of Staff

John Bolton, Under-Secretary of State for Arms Control and
International Security.

David Wurmser
Special Assistant to John Bolton (above), the under-secretary for arms
control and international security.

Eliot Cohen, Member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board

Mel Sembler, President of the Export-Import Bank of the United
States.

Michael Chertoff , Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal
Division, at the Justice Department.

Steve Goldsmith, Senior Advisor to the President, and Bush's Jewish
domestic policy advisor.

Joseph Gildenhorn, Bush Campaign's Special Liaison to the Jewish
Community.

Christopher Gersten, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary,
Administration for Children and Families at HHS.

Mark Weinberger, Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
for Public Affairs.

Samuel Bodman, Deputy Secretary of Commerce. He was the Chairman and
CEO of Cabot Corporation in Boston, Massachusetts.

Bonnie Cohen, Under Secretary of State for Management.

Ruth Davis, Director of Foreign Service Institute

Daniel Kurtzer, Ambassador to Israel.

Cliff Sobel, Ambassador to the Netherlands.

Stuart Bernstein, Ambassador to Denmark.

Nancy Brinker, Ambassador to Hungary

Frank Lavin, Ambassador to Singapore.

Ron Weiser, Ambassador to Slovakia.

Mel Sembler, Ambassador to Italy.

Martin Silverstein, Ambassador to Uruguay.

Lincoln Bloomfield, Assistant Secretary of State for Political
Military Affairs.

Jay Lefkowitz, Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the
Domestic Policy Council.

Ken Melman, White House Political Director.

Brad Blakeman, White House Director of Scheduling.


Jews in the Obama Administration:


David Axelrod (2009-2011) Senior Advisor to the President

Jared Bernstein (2009-2011) Chief Economist and Economic Policy
Advisor to the Vice President

Danielle Borrin (2009- ) Special Assistant for Intergovernmental
Affairs and Public Engagement to the Vice President

Rahm Emanuel (2009-2010) Chief of Staff

Lee Feinstein (2009) Campaign Foreign Policy Advisor

Gary Gensler (2009- ) Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading
Commission

Elena Kagan (2009-2010) Solicitor General of the United States

Ronald Klain (2009-2011) Chief of Staff to the Vice President

Jacob Lew (2010- ) Director of the Office of Management and Budget

Eric Lynn (2009- ) Middle East Policy Advisor

Peter Orszag (2009-2010) Director of the Office of Management and
Budget

Dennis Ross (2009- ) Special Advisor for the Gulf and Southwest Asia
to the Secretary of State

Mara Rudman (2009- ) Foreign Policy Advisor

Mary Schapiro (2009- ) Chair of the Securities and Exchange
Commission

Dan Shapiro (2009- ) Head of Middle East/North Africa desk at the
National Security Council; U.S. Ambassador to Israel

Susan Sher (2009-2011) First Lady's Chief of Staff

Steven Simon (2011- ) Head of Middle East/North Africa desk at the
National Security Council

Gene Sperling (2011- ) Director National Economic Council

James B. Steinberg (2009- ) Deputy Secretary of State

Lawrence Summers (2009-2011) Director National Economic Council

Mona Sutphen (2009-2011)

[Edson]

I wonder why this is? Do you think it's because jews are very cliqish and like to only help other jews get rich?

[N.B. Forrest]

Originally Posted by Edson

I wonder why this is? Do you think it's because jews are very cliqish and like to only help other jews get rich?

Yes. Kikes do have the highest average IQ of all races (which mostly manifests itself in their infamous ability to befuddle & defeat the "goyim" with verbal jewshit), but the main reason they succeed by far is their racial nepotism: once they get in top control positions in major institutions, they heavily promote their own kind - at the expense of more talented & deserving Whites; this is why you see, for example, the hugely disproportionate number of jews with degrees from elite Ivy League schools, which of course means they get the top, highest-paying, and above all, nation-controlling jobs.