Michael Shapiro encourages Jews to bask in the light of their people's historical contributions to religion, science, politics, the arts and civilisation in general. For each of the 101 topics presented in this book, he offers a reason to be proud of Jewish achievements. The diverse subjects discussed here include the Ten Commandments, festivals, holy days, the Six Day War, the Catskills, Yiddish, Jewish mothers - and, of course, chicken soup, often affectionately referred to as Jewish penicillin'.'