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   Vice President Joe Biden said:   
      
   "Jewish heritage has shaped who we are - all of us - as much or more   
   than any other factor in the last 223 years. And that's a fact," Biden   
   told a gathering of Jewish leaders on May 21 in Washington, DC. "The   
   truth is that Jewish heritage, Jewish culture, Jewish values are such   
   an essential part of who we are that it's fair to say that Jewish   
   heritage is American heritage," he also said.   
      
   Biden knows what's he talking about. He was a US Senator for 26 years,   
   held important posts in Congress, and was twice a US presidential   
   candidate. Few men have been more deeply involved in Washington   
   politics, or are more intimately familiar with the realities of power   
   in American public life.   
      
   Even though Jews make up only one or two percent of the US population,   
   the Jewish role in American cultural and political life has been   
   "outsized" and "immense," Biden said.   
      
   "You make up eleven percent of the seats in the United States   
   Congress," he told his Jewish audience. He might also have mentioned   
   that three of the nine members of the US Supreme Court are Jewish, and   
   that Jews are vastly overrepresented in other high-level federal,   
   state and city government posts, including chairman of the Federal   
   Reserve System, and as the mayors of America's three most populous   
   cities.   
      
   "The Jewish people have contributed greatly to America. No group has   
   had such an outsized influence per capita," he also said. Biden went   
   on to speak about the Jewish role in shaping popular attitudes with   
   regard to race relations, the role of women in society, and "gay   
   rights," and thereby in changing policies, laws and behavior.   
      
   "I believe what affects the [social- political] movements in America,   
   what affects our attitudes in America, are as much the culture and the   
   arts as anything else ... It wasn't anything we [politicians]   
   legislatively did," he went on. "It was [such television shows as]   
   'Will and Grace,' it was the social media. Literally. That's what   
   changed peoples' attitudes. That's why I was so certain that the vast   
   majority of people would embrace, and rapidly embrace" same-sex   
   marriage.   
      
   "Think - behind of all that, I bet you 85 percent of those changes,   
   whether it's in Hollywood or social media, are a consequence of Jewish   
   leaders in the industry. The influence is immense, the influence is   
   immense," he said.   
      
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