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Re:Jewish problems by sliverstorm on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @02:25AM (#3097411)
The reason they have been persecuted for so long is because they have survived for so long. Most heavily persecuted groups don't last long.
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Re:Jewish problems by chopsueyar on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @10:05AM (#3098581)
5,772 years so far.

Happy New Year.

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Re:Jewish problems by jganetsk on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @11:43AM (#3099029)
The Jewish calendar year is 5772. That means 5,772 years after Biblical creation. The biblical patriarch Abraham was born in the Jewish calendar year 1948. Going by that as the inception of the Jewish people, they are 3,824 years old. Historians would put the inception of the ancient Israelites at 1200 BCE.
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