Famed movie director, producer, and screenwriter Steven Spielberg, 77, has announced a new project the USC Shoah Foundation is undertaking: documenting the barbaric attack by Hamas terrorists against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. The Shoah Foundation (Shoah means Holocaust in Hebrew) was established by Spielberg in 1994, one year after completing his Academy Award-winning Holocaust…
Dr. Yehudah Pryce served over 16 years incarcerated for a non-violent robbery he was arrested for as a teenager. [Ed note: He was a heavily tattooed gang member.] Since his release from prison on October 22, 2018, he finished his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with an emphasis in social welfare; he graduated with his…
Daniel L. Doctoroff, 65, is an American businessman and former government official. From 2015 to 2021, he served as chief executive officer of Sidewalk Labs, a startup company he helped found that focused on technology for city life. Previously, he was the CEO and president of Bloomberg L.P. Also, he was deputy mayor for economic…
Daniel L. Doctoroff, 65, is a businessman and former government official. From 2015 to 2021, he served as chief executive officer of Sidewalk Labs, a startup company he helped found that focused on technology for city life. Previously, he was the CEO and president of Bloomberg L.P. Also, he was deputy mayor for economic development…
Evan Gershkovich, 32, is an American journalist and reporter at The Wall Street Journal covering Russia. He was detained by Russia’s Federal Security Service on charges of espionage in March 2023, marking the first time a journalist working for an American outlet had been arrested on charges of spying in Russia since the Cold War.…
NOTE: The opinions expressed are soley those of the featured individual. They do not necessarily reflect the views of Project Star of David. Naomi Klein, 53, is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses; support of ecofeminism, organized labor, and leftism; and criticism of corporate globalization, fascism, eco-fascism, and…
Cass Sunstein, 69, is a legal scholar known for his work in constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, and behavioral economics. He is also The New York Times best-selling author of The World According to Star Wars (2016) and Nudge (2008). He was the administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs…
Reconstructionist Judaism is a Jewish movement based on the concepts developed by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan (1881–1983) that views Judaism as a progressively evolving civilization rather than just a religion. The movement originated as a semi-organized stream within Conservative Judaism, developed between the late 1920s and the 1940s, before seceding in 1955 and establishing a rabbinical…
Theodore Maiman (July 11, 1927 – May 5, 2007) was an American engineer and physicist who is widely credited with the invention of the laser. Maiman’s laser led to the subsequent development of many other types of lasers. The laser was successfully fired on May 16, 1960. In a July 7, 1960, press conference in…
Sara Paretsky , 76, is an author of detective fiction, best known for her numerous novels focused on the protagonist V. I. Warshawski, a female private investigator. Paretsky is credited with transforming the role and image of women in the crime novel. She is also considered the founding mother of Sisters in Crime, an organization…
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