National NAACP Takes Over Philadelphia Chapter Following Antisemitism Uproar + More Antisemitism-Related Headlines
The National NAACP has taken over the organization’s Philadelphia chapter due to…
The National NAACP has taken over the organization’s Philadelphia chapter due to…
Click here for more NEWS >> New York magazine’s staff commentator and writer Johnathan Chait (47 or 48) recently penned a disquieting article (to say the least) titled “How Trump Brought Nazis Into Republican Politics.” The article was published on Aug. 31 in New York’s “Intelligencer.” The quotation below from Chait’s piece sums…
The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) was founded in 2004 by Dr. Charles Asher Small…
Rabbi Abraham Cooper is the associate dean and director of Global Social Action Agenda for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, headquartered in Los Angeles.
The USC Shoah Foundation is a nonprofit organization that has recorded and archived tens of thousands of audio and video testimonials by survivors of the Holocaust.
Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara (Jan. 1, 1900 – July 31, 1986) served as vice-consul for Japan in the Lithuanian city of Kovno. During the Second World War, Sugihara helped some 6,000 Jews flee certain death by issuing transit visas to them, enabling them to travel through Japanese territory to safety. He issued the visas in…
On Aug. 4, 2020, Beirut, Lebanon was rocked by a enormous blast considered to be among the most powerful nonnuclear explosions in history. Large swaths of the city were destroyed, some 200 people were killed, thousands were injured, and 300,000 residents were left homeless. The cause of the explosion appeared to be 2,750 tons…
Today there are thought to be more than 150,000 Jews living in Germany -– making the country home to one of the world’s largest Jewish communities. Many among the new German Jews immigrated to the country from the former Soviet Union and Eastern European states. Just as recent years have seen a major upsurge in…
Rabbi Noam Marans, Director of Interreligious and Intergroup Relations for…
Ann Coulter (either 56 or 58) is a far-right media pundit, provocateur, author, columnist, and attorney. She has written 12 books, including High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton; Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right; Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism; and Godless: The Church of…
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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