Yeah, I don't get the Jewish thing at all (I'd never heard that before today). Aside from the obvious tie-in with the Bajorans, if I were to go looking for stereotyped Jews in ST I'd probably go with the Romulans. But in any case, the Ferengi represent greedy capitalist pig-dogs while the humans represent what we are supposed to one day become. I'm just of the opinion that we're a helluva lot further away (and in many ways thankfully) from the perfect humans than we are the Ferengi, Klingons, Cardassians and Romulans. The Ferengi are the Hu-mons while we're, I don't know, the Metrons or some shit.