Ezra Levin: Co-founder of Indivisible, Activist for Progressive Government
Political activist Ezra Klein is co-founder and co-executive director of Indivisible, a nonprofit…
Political activist Ezra Klein is co-founder and co-executive director of Indivisible, a nonprofit…
Jonathan Zittrain is a professor of Internet law and the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School. He is also a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, a professor of computer science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and co-founder and director of Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet…
Lesley Stahl, 78, is a prominent T.V. journalist whose career has spanned decades. Since 1991 she has been a regular on the CBS series 60 Minutes. In addition, she has served as moderator on Face the Nation (1983 — 1991) and host of 48 Hours Investigates (2002 — 2004). Stahl has written two books: Reporting…
Larry Kramer (June 25, 1935 – May 27, 2020) was a longtime, trailblazing AIDS and LGBT activist who fought against the stigmatizing of people with the disease, for public awareness about it, and for government support to combat it. He was instrumental in the founding of Gay Mens Health Crisis (GMHC) and AIDS Coalition to…
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Beverly Sills
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Inventor of the mobile phone, “Father of the Internet,” inventor of the video game cosole, inventor fo the laser, inventor of the gramophone, creator of the Barbie Doll, creator of the cruise ship, “Father of Immunology,” inventor fo the modern condom (!), a prime minister of the U.K., a three-time prime minister of France, a president of Switzerland and the primary financier of the American Revolution?
We knew you could guess… all of them are (or were) Jews!
To learn about these and many more AmazingJews, watch a compilation put together by JewOfTheWeek.net in 2015 and posted on YouTube. >>
Nobel Prizes
Although Jews are less than two-tenths of one percent of the world’s population, more than 20% of Nobel Prize winners have been Jewish. Source: Google
Polio Vaccine
Millions and millions of people worldwide have been spared the ravages of poliomyelitis — including paralysis and even death — thanks to research conducted by Jewish scientist Dr. Jonas Salk and his team. The Salk vaccine entered widespread use in the U.S. in 1955. Source: Wikipedia
Miss Liberty
The words “…give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…” on the Statue of Liberty were written by Emma Lazarus, a Jew. Source: BuzzFeed
Blue Jeans
Levi Strauss, an immigrant from Germany, invented his blue jeans in 1873. Source: BuzzFeed
Start-Up Nation
Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship in the world. It has the highest rate of entrepreneurship among women and people over 55 in the world. Source: BuzzFeed