OOOOOOOOOOO Quote: “I’ve got a nice car. I love my job. I’ve got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I’ve been in movies, I’ve written books — I don’t know how that all happened.” | “When you reach a certain age, and people see you…
In the 1920s, Mendel “Max” Rosenstock became known as “Max the Strongman” and “The Strongest Man in the World.” A Romanian Jew who immigrated to the U.S., Rosenstock toured the country performing amazing feats of strength. What made him even more extraordinary was that he reportedly stood five-feet-two-inches tall. (In 1931, the Jewish Daily Forward…
Tikkun Olam (“repairing the world’) is an important tenet in Judaism — and that includes with regard to environmental degradation and sustainable growth. All streams of the Jewish religion are concerned about ecology. Here we present one Torah-centered view from Aish HaTorah (“Fire of the Torah”), an Orthodox educational organization and yeshiva. See the article…
Jon Ossoff, 33, will become U.S. Senator from the state of Georgia. He’ll join fellow Democrat Rev. Raphael Warnock, who also was victorious in the runoff election. With both Democrats winning, the Senate will have a 50-50 split between Republicans and Democrats, and incoming Democratic Vice-President Kamala Harris will cast the deciding vote in the…
OOOOOOOOOOO Quote: “OOOOOOOOOOO” Sources: The Jewish Virtual Library Read “Jews in Islamic Countries: Tunisia” >> Read “Tunisia: Jewish population determined to stay despite anti-Semitic violence” >> OOOOOOOOOO. >> OOOOOOOOOO. >> Photo: Shutterstock
UPDATE | Jan. 7, 2021 | Israel has now inoculated about 1.3 million citizens, or more than 14 percent of the population. The United States has inoculated some 5 million people, or less than 2% of the population. Although the Israeli vaccination effort got off to a blazing, world-leading start, the program hit a snag…
Julie Taymor (68) is a theater, opera, and movie director and writer. Her stage adaptation of The Lion King has been seen by more than 90 million people in 100 cities around the world. It received 11 Tony Award nominations; Taymor garnered Tony Awards for Best Director and Costume Designer. The production has been honored…
UPDATE | Jan. 6, 2021 | President-elect Joe Biden reportedly has decided to nominate Merrick Garland to be Attorney General of the United States. Merrick Garland (68) served as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit beginning in 1997. From February 2013 to…
Judy Chicago (81) is a pioneering feminist artist whose most well-known works include The Dinner Party, International Honor Quilt, The Birth Project, Powerplay, and The Holocaust Project. During the 1970s, she founded the first feminist art program in the United States at California State University Fresno (formerly Fresno State College) and acted as a catalyst…
When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Werner Reic lived with his family in Berlin. He later fled to Yugoslavia, but when the Nazis occupied that country…
To learn about these and many more AmazingJews, watch a compilation put together by JewOfTheWeek.net in 2015 and posted on YouTube.