Dean Kremer (pronounced KRAY-mer) is a 27-year-old Israeli–American pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles. (Both his parents are Israeli.) He made his MLB debut in September 2020. Previously, Kremer pitched for the Team USA baseball team in the 2013 Maccabiah Games in Israel, winning a gold medal. Members of Kremer’s extended family live in Israel, a…
At the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, billionaire businessman and philanthropist David Rubenstein (74, pictured right)) interviewed acclaimed biographer and journalist Walter Isaacson (71) about six geniuses Isaacson has profiled in best-selling biographies: Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin, Steve Jobs, Leonardo DaVinci, Albert Einstein, and — most recently–– Elon Musk. It made for…
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif) — who passed away on Sept. 29, 2023 at the age of 90 — was a trailblazing American politician. She has been described as “a titan of US political history who notched countless legislative achievements” in her long Senate career. She was the first woman to chair the Senate Rules Committee…
Louise Glück was an acclaimed American poet and essayist. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature: Judges praised “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.” Her other awards include the Pulitzer Prize, National Humanities Medal, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Bollingen Prize. From 2003 to…
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!
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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