I dated a pretty Jewish young woman for a while. It went so far as to me getting the sit-down from her dad about this-and-that, the kids to be, and so forth. She eventually married another guy, Jewish, had kids, and lived happily ever after. I am happy for them. I have fondest memories of dating her.
They are a powerful and influential minority group in the USA.
In the former USSR the Jews were a very formidable underground anti-Soviet group.
In the former 3rd Reich they were not. They thought it could not happen there. And then it did. Their worst nightmare since the Spanish inquisition.
In Israel they do not mess around, they cannot afford to, they are armed to the hilt, everyone, boys and girls, walking around Tel Aviv with their uzi's every day.
It seems to me that the lesson that the Jews have taught each of us is that you must be armed, at all times, when you are surrounded by enemies.
The modern enemies of modern America are criminals. Ergo we could benefit by learning a lot from the Jews of Israel right about now.
As the economy gets worse, the crime problem will also get worse. And that's not even considering the usual drug addicted offenders or the mentally ill psycho's between 15 and 25.