Moment Magazine: ‘How Has Jewish Thought Influenced Science?’
In 2014, Moment magazine published an extraordinary article titled “How Has Jewish…
In 2014, Moment magazine published an extraordinary article titled “How Has Jewish…
Allan “Bud” Selig, 85, was commissioner of American Major League Baseball from 1992, when he was named acting commissioner, to 2015, when he retired. Selig was credited for the enormous rise in MLB revenues and attendance during his long tenure. He weathered a number of storms while commissioner, chief among them a steroid scandal involving…
At 48, Eric Garcetti is the youngest mayor in Los Angeles history and the city’s first Jewish mayor…
Although Jews comprise only 0.2% — that’s one-fifth of one percent — of the world’s population, more than one-fifth of all Nobel Prize recipients have been Jewish. To put it another way, 902 Nobel Prizes had been awarded as of 2017, and 203 of those had gone to Jewish people. Jews have won prizes in…
A noted legal historian described fifty-five-year-old Jeffrey Rosen as “the nation’s most widely read…
Rita Rudner, 65, has been an American stand-up comedy star for more than three decades. She is a mainstay of comedy…
The Met Cloisters, a museum in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan, is displaying objects from the Colmar Treasure, a medieval Jewish family’s trove of exquisite decorative pieces that remained hidden for some 500 years. The Cloisters — a branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art — focuses on architecture, sculpture, and decorative arts from…
Israeli serial entrepreneur Yaron Schwarcz believes 3-D printing and robotic construction…
The “Piano Man” Billy Joel became a successful recording artist back in the 1970s — and he has continued enjoying an impressive music career ever since. The now 70 year old’s numerous hit songs include “Just the Way You Are,” “Vienna,” “Only the Good Die Young,” “She’s Always a Woman,” and “Scenes form an Italian…
David Geffen, 76, is a powerful player in both Hollywood and the music industry: He was instrumental in founding Asylum Records, Geffen Records, DGC Records, and DreamWorks SKG. Additionally, Geffen is a prodigious philanthropist to various causes. A multibillionaire, his contributions — adding up to hundreds of millions of dollars — have included to the…
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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