NEW! U.K.: | “The first half of 2022 saw a dramatic decrease in the number of antisemitic incidents recorded in the United Kingdom but also saw antisemitism shift from the Internet to in-person incidents, according to a Community Security Trust (CST) report. According to CST’s Antisemitic Incidents Report for January until June of 2022, the…
If you are under the misapprehension that there are limits to crazy conspiracy theories about the Jewish people, think again. One noted UFOlogist and purveyor of wild-and-wacky ideas is Linda Moutlon-Howe, an “investigative journalist” who has claimed, among many other things, that the U.S. government is in cahoots with extraterrestrials. Her ideas have…
Bari Weiss, 36, is an opinion editor at The New York Times and author of the 2019 book How to Fight Antisemitism, which garnered a National Jewish Book Award. The 2018 mass murder at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh — the very same congregation where her bat mitzvah was held -– was a…
A frequently heard view from many historians — Muslin historians in particular — has been that Jews living under Islamic rule fared far better than their coreligionists living under Christian rule. While that may have been true to an extent, the bar for comparison set by Christians was abysmally low. During the millennium of Muslim…
Dr. Philip Fernbach is a cognitive scientist and professor of marketing at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In addition, he is co-director of the Center for Research on Consumer Financial Decision Making, an affiliate of the Institute of Cognitive Science, and of the Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility. In his TedTalk “Why do we…
James Loeffler is Professor of Jewish History at the University of Virginia. His books include The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire and Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century. Loeffler’s writings have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Tablet,…
Adolf Eichmann (March 19, 1906 – June 1, 1962) was a member of the Nazi SS who became known (accurately or not) as “the architect of the Holocaust.” He planned and oversaw the deportation of European Jews to ghettos and concentration camps, where they ultimately met their deaths. In 1960, Eichmann was captured in Argentina…
For the past 14 years, Muhammad Ahmad Hussein has been the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. During his tenure he has made many incendiary statements, including justifying Palestinian suicide bombings, claiming there never was a Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount (called Haram al-Sharif by Muslims), and publicly quoting a Jew-hating hadith (sayings attributed to the…
In early May, hundreds of demonstrators gathered in downtown Chicago to protest the anti-COVID-19 lockdown order by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzger, who is Jewish. One protester, wearing an American flag protective mask, carried a sign with the words “Arbeit Macht Frei, JB.” The German slogan, which means “Work sets you free,” was displayed prominently at…
Click here for more NEWS >> New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, 69, recently incurred the anger of the Jewish community in the nation’s largest city and elsewhere because of what he tweeted after hundreds of ultra-Orthodox mourners gathered for the funeral of a notable rabbi. (The tweet is contained in the…
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