Harry Litman (64-65) is a former U.S. attorney (Federal prosecutor) and deputy assistant attorney general. He teaches constitutional law and national security law at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law and the University of California at San Diego Department of Political Science. Litman also practices law with Constantine Cannon in San…
Harry Litman is a lawyer, law professor, and legal commentator. He has served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General…
Kenneth Feinberg is an attorney specializing in mediation and alternative dispute resolution.
Dana Michelle Nessel , 53, is a lawyer and politician who serves as the 54th Attorney General of Michigan. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Nessel is the second openly lesbian person elected attorney general of a state in the United States (after Maura Healey of Massachusetts), as well as the first openly…
Cyril Wecht is an attorney, but his major contribution to American legal proceedings has been as a forensic scientist — especially by appearing…
Tamar Frankel, 96, is a renowned legal scholar who has been a professor at Boston University School of Law since 1968.
She is known for representing alleged victims of sexual assault and sexual harassment…
Attorney Marc Elias (52) is an expert in election law, voting rights, and redistricting. He served as general counsel for the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign and the John Kerry 2004 presidential campaign. In 2020 and 2021, on behalf of the Biden campaign and the Democratic National Committee, Elias oversaw the state-by-state response to lawsuits…
Tamar Frankel (95) is a long-time professor at the Boston University School of Law. (She retired from the faculty…
Before there was Judge Judy there was The People’s Court. Although Judge Judith Sheindlin has had the longest-running reality arbitration-based court show in TV history (25 seasons), she did not pioneer the genre. That distinction belongs to Judge Joseph Wapner (Nov. 15, 1919 — Feb. 26, 2017), who presided over the first run of 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