Doris Roberts (November 4, 1925 — April 17, 2016) had a successful acting career on television and in film lasting some six decades. Roberts, who garnered five Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award, was best known as the overbearing Marie Barone on the popular sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, which aired for nine seasons.…
Ronald (Ron) Wyden (D), 71, has served as the U.S. Senator from Oregon since 1996. From 1981 to 1996 he was a member of the House of Representatives. Wyden is the Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee. In May 2017, he co-sponsored — with Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin, who also is Jewish — Senate…
What Yiddish has been to Ashkenazi Jews, Ladino has been to Sephardic Jews. Perhaps more correctly called Judeo-Spanish, Ladino is a Romance language based on Old Spanish and influenced by several other languages. Although not widely used today, it is still spoken by small Sephardic minorities in more than 30 countries. The story of Ladino…
Daniel Goleman, 74, is an author and journalist whose column about the brain and behavioral science appeared in The New York Times…
Until recently, 60-year-old Geoffrey Berman was United States Attorney for the powerful
Marc Benioff, 55, is an Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Salesforce, a cloud-based…
One word often used to describe 93-year-old Herbert Lust: eccentric. Educated to be a university literature professor — his profession for years — Lust eventually found himself working on Wall Street, a sojourn that made him an investment banking tycoon. Since then he has become one of the world’s premier art collectors, who has raised…
Rosalind Franklin (July 25, 1920 — April 16, 1958) was an English chemist and crystallographer whose research made an enormous contribution to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite. Like many women in the scientific field, much of what she achieved was not acknowledged during her lifetime but recognized…
Bryan Schwartz is an Oakland, California–based attorney who specializes in civil rights…
For more than seven decades, Carl Reiner made Americans and people around the world laugh.
WOW! FACTS
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