Steven Breyer (82) has served as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme court since 1994, after being nominated by then-President Bill Clinton. In his 2005 book Active Liberty, Breyer argued that the judiciary should seek to resolve issues in a manner that encourages popular participation in governmental decisions. Reportedly, he is being urged to…
Thomas “Tom” Goldstein (50-51) is an attorney known for his frequent appearance before the United States Supreme Court. Indeed, over the past 15 years he has served as one of the lawyers in just under 10% of the cases argued before the High Court. Goldstein is also the co-founder of SCOTUSblog, the most widely read…
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…
Attorney Andrew A. Weissmann (62) became the chief of the criminal fraud section of the U.S. Department of Justice in 2015. Two years later he was appointed to a management role on the 2017 Special Counsel team headed by Robert Mueller. The Muller investigation into President Donald Trump ended in 2019, after which Weissmann went…
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,…
Benjamin “Ben” Ginsberg (67–68) is an author and eminent, longtime Republican lawyer. He served eight years as counsel to the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and the National Republican Congressional Committee. Recently, Ginsberg wrote an op-ed piece that appeared in The Washington Post; the article refuted President Donald Trump’s bogus claims about…
Attorney Elie Honig, 45, is a legal scholar and an analyst on the law for CNN, where he has his own show called Cross Exam with Elie Honig. Previously, he was the Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Assistant Attorney General of New Jersey. Honig successfully prosecuted numerous mobsters and…
Pamela S. Karlan, 61, is a professor at Stanford Law School and an expert on voting rights and political process. From 2014 to 2015, Karlan was U.S. Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Voting Rights in the United States Department of Justice Civil Division. A vocal critic of President Donald J. Trump, she testified at his…
Jonathan Zittrain is a professor of Internet law and the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School. He is also a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, a professor of computer science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and co-founder and director of Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet…
Ben Ferencz, the last living prosecutor from the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi war criminals, recently became a centenarian — a wonderful milestone in an amazing life. Born in Hungary, his family emigrated to the U.S. to escape antisemitism. In Nuremberg, Ferencz was, among other things, the U.S. Army’s chief prosecutor of S.S. Einsatzgruppen officers who…
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