Why have the Jewish people, who seem to have benefited greatly from capitalism, contributed disproportionately to socialist literature? Although the question remains unanswered, Dr. Milton Friedman, a secular Jew himself, offers some fascinating observations.

Dr. Friedman gave a lecture entitled, "Capitalism and the Jews" at the University of Chicago in 1978. Listen here:
http://www.law.uchicago.edu/audio/by/...

For a contemporary neoconservative point of view, read "Why Are Jews Liberals?" by Norman Podhoretz, also Jewish, in the Wall Street Journal:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001...

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/art...

http://pajamasmedia.com/ronrosenbaum/...

From the American Thinker:
"The Anti-Defamation League pushes a leftist agenda in the guise of fighting anti-Semitism and bigotry."
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/1...

Also, FrontPage Magazine has a good article titled, 'See No Anti-Semitism, Hear No Anti-Semitism.' Read it here:
http://frontpagemag.com/2010/03/01/se...

Excerpt from "The Open Mind" - A Nobel Laureate on the American Economy (1977)
http://www.thirteen.org/openmind/publ...