People tend to remember those sorts of things... Also, it's not like there are a bunch of Jews who play city roulette every decade and move to a major city. People tend to stick to the cities they're born in, or at the least the countries they're born in.
I'd be curious to see where the quizmaster got this information from. Growing up in Johannesburg, South Africa - there is a very large Jewish community, so much so that there are a number of Jewish schools all over. Not saying the figures are wrong, I'd just be interested to see how large the Jewish population in Johannesburg is.
Take a look at this website - http://www.citypopulation.de/Israel.html
Non-Jews are about 15-20% of the total population, but the overwhelming majority live in one of the 3 major urban areas (Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa) or in urban areas with minimal numbers of Jews (Nazareth, for instance).
Baltimore and D.C. are often included in the same metropolitan area (though sometimes they aren't), but the quiz specifies that it's the city itself excluding metro area
In 1939 Warsaw would have been 2nd on this list. In fact, many of the top cities would be in Poland, Ukraine, and the Baltic States. It should be remembered that it was not only the SS who played a role in changing this but also Nazi collaborators who organized pogroms against the Jews. Footage of this happening during Operation Barbarossa can still be found.
Hey Quizmaster! How do you put images in quizzes, like in KoljiVriVoda's Partial Flag Image quizzes? I would like to do some quizzes like those myself.
Beersheba is wrong. According to Wikipedia, the population of Beersheba includes 177,000 Jews. Beersheba "Metropolitan Area" - which is a massive area that stretches out across the desert to include the towns of Sderot, Arad and Dimona, has 212,000 Jews, still a lot less than the 381,900 figure shown in this quiz.
I really don't get where the numbers come from. You say Wikipedia but they seem to think Tel Aviv is a city and so is Ramat Gam (they are right). Where would Netanya be? Haifa (60km away), Tel Aviv (30km away)? There are 200,000 people there who would love to sell their apartments for Tel Aviv prices.
I think you folks attempting to either condemn or defend "religion" need to check out Unitarian Universalism. They do not have a creed because they don't expect everyone to believe the same way. They do have covenants which they trust their congregants to promote. The first is to respect the inherent dignity and worth of every human. The 7th is to have respect for the "interdependent web of all existence." Read them all and then defend your view that "Religion of any kind is a cancer of our civilization" or that religion can't be a "choose your own adventure." UU includes Buddhists and atheists, Christians and humanists. I do agree with Kalba... that recognizing good and evil does not require the presence of "God." I think we are capable of a somewhat "objective secular morality." K is also correct that enormous evil has been done in the name of religion throughout history. But Amma 14's response is excellent.
Unitarianism seems like nonsense to me, too. I mean, some of what they preach sounds nice at first blush, but... the many religious traditions they claim are equally deserving of respect and reverence, and worth drawing inspiration and wisdom from, are all mutually contradictory, and also usually dogmatic and opposed to true wisdom or enlightenment. So... makes no sense to try and incorporate all of them. Just a bunch of superficial flowery mumbo jumbo that ignores and sugar-coats the harm that such belief systems do to the world and individuals.
I remember back when I was a devout Christian myself, writing a research paper on cults, my first exposure to Universalism was through Christian books that painted it as a dangerous cult. That was probably the worst research paper I ever wrote. Had some pretty bad sources.
There has to be some irony in Buenos Aires, the capital of a country that took in numerous Nazis after the war, being on this list, *especially* since many of the Jewish people in the city also came after the war
Non-Jews are about 15-20% of the total population, but the overwhelming majority live in one of the 3 major urban areas (Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa) or in urban areas with minimal numbers of Jews (Nazareth, for instance).
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However, we don't approve most image quizzes because of a variety of issues including
1) Copyright restrictions (the main one)
2) Images that are larger than necessary
I've missed Montréal, Atlanta and Be'er Sheva, while I've guessed cities as San Diego and Buenos Aires.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_population_by_country#Jewish_population_by_city
Thanks to all for food for thought!
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I remember back when I was a devout Christian myself, writing a research paper on cults, my first exposure to Universalism was through Christian books that painted it as a dangerous cult. That was probably the worst research paper I ever wrote. Had some pretty bad sources.