For the first time in six decades, Israeli researchers have uncovered additional fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls that date back nearly two millennia. The discovery, which was made in the vicinity of the Dead Sea about 25 miles south of Jerusalem, involved the dangerous exploration of a cave by the Israel Antiquities Authority. It…
Richard Serra is a renowned artist known for his enormous steel sculptures, monumental “installation drawings,” printmaking, performance and video art, and more. The now 82-year-old Serra created the sculpture Berlin Junction as a memorial to those who lost their lives to the Nazi genocide program; it was eventually installed permanently at the Berliner Philharmonie. For…
Zeke Miller is a White House reporter for The Associated Press and president of the White House Correspondents’ Association. Until October 2017 he was the White House correspondent for TIME, where he worked since 2013 as a political reporter covering the White House, national politics, and the 2016 presidential campaign. He previously was the first…
Jacqueline “Jackie” Tabick, a Reform rabbi, became Britain’s first ordained female rabbi (1975). She is the convenor of the Movement for…
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