Yosef Abramowitz (b. 1964) is a pioneering developer of solar power in Israel. Named by CNN as one of the top six Green Pioneers worldwide, Yosef Abramowitz served as President of the Arava Power Company and is now focused on serving as CEO and President of Energiya Global, which builds solar fields in Africa and…
Sylvan Adams (b. Nov.1, 1958) is a billionaire businessman and philanthropist who left Canada in 2015 and made Aliyah to Israel. He is co-owner of the Israeli cycling team Team Israel Start-Up Nation, which competed in the recent 2020 Tour de France. Adams is Israel’s “self-appointed ambassador-at-large.” In Canada, he was a national and world…
In late September, The Jerusalem Post published a report by Linda Gradstein — titled “Will the coronavirus pandemic make synagogues obsolete?” — about how numerous (non-Haredi) observant Jews in Israel are adapting to the current situation in creative and positive ways. These efforts are enabling Jews to continue praying together while minimizing the risk to…
American Jewish World Service (AJWS) is a nonprofit international development and human rights organization that supports community-based groups in 19 countries in the developing world. AJWS also works to influence U.S. international policies and funding in relation to human rights, global health, and poverty. Robert Bank (pictured) is president and CEO of AJWS. Quote:…
In 2014, Democrat Elizabeth “Libby” Schaaf (54) won her first term as mayor of Oakland with 62.79% of the vote. She was reelected in 2018 with 27% more votes than her opponent. Prior to entering politics, Shaaf was an attorney in Oakland – where she was born and raised – and program director for the…
Dave Aronberg (49) is the Democratic State Attorney for Palm Beach County, Florida and a former member of the Florida Senate. He was elected to the state Senate in 2002 as its youngest member and served there for eight years. Previously, Aronberg worked as a lawyer in both the public and private sectors. In 2012,…
Dan Gelber (60), the mayor of Miami Beach, Fla., is definitely a “chip off the ol’ block.” Pictured is Gelber being sworn in to his mayoral position by his father, 98-year-old Seymour Gelber, who once served in the same position. The younger Gelber, a Democrat, has been at loggerheads with Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis,…
Angela Warnick Buchdahl is the chief rabbi of New York City’s Central Synagogue, a large and prominent Reform congregation. In the powerful and highly personal sermon linked below…
Natan Sharansky (72) is a modern-day hero of the Jewish people: In the 1970s and 1980s, he was a prominent Soviet “refusenik” — mostly Jews who were…
Bird has won a joint-record four WNBA championships with the Seattle Storm (2004, 2010, 2018, 2020)…
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