// Ruth Handler: The Woman Who Created the Barbie Doll and Co-founded the Mattel Toy Company
Ed note: With all the hoopla about the recently released “Barbie” movie, we thought this was the time to turn the spotlight on Barbie’s “Jewish mother.”
Ed note: With all the hoopla about the recently released “Barbie” movie, we thought this was the time to turn the spotlight on Barbie’s “Jewish mother.”
Focusing on the history of Jewish life in the American capital city and the surrounding metropolitan area…
Susan Polgar is a renowned Hungarian-American chess grandmaster….
Michael (Mike) Leven, 83, had a stellar business career, but now in his later years he has turned his attention to his love of the Jewish people and Israel. Inspired by Warren Buffet and Bill Gates’ Giving Pledge, Mike co-founded the Jewish Future Pledge, “a worldwide movement inspiring Jews of all backgrounds to commit that…
Amy Spitalnick, 36, spearheaded a four-year-long legal battle…
The audience members — including cameos by Samuel L. Jackson and Lin-Manuel Miranda…
Jack Howard Jacobs , 76, is a retired colonel in the United States Army and a Medal of Honor recipient for his actions during the Vietnam War. On March 9, 1968, he was working as the assistant battalion advisor for the South Vietnamese army’s 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division. During a mission…
Meir has become part of NASA’s Artemis program, which aims to return humans — including possibly a woman — to the Moon by 2025.
Jared Isaacman — a 38-year-old self-made billionaire — was one of four civilian astronauts on the recent Inspiration4 historic space flight. He was the Mission Commander of the three-day space excursion as well. In addition to being the founder of Draken International and Shift4 Payments (where he’s the CEO), he has numerous extraordinary achievements to…
In the First World War, an estimated 100,000 German Jews served in their country’s army, of whom 12,000 were killed in action…
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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