‘Wolf: A Story of Hate’ by Zeev Scheinwald With Ella Scheinwald, Preface by Ella Scheinwald
“Wolf: A Story of Hate” is the true story of Zeev Sheinwald, who during World War II was…
“Wolf: A Story of Hate” is the true story of Zeev Sheinwald, who during World War II was…
Talia Lavin — a 31-year-old journalist, anti-fascist, and granddaughter of Holocaust survivors…
Professor of Jewish History and prolific author Rafael Medoff’s book The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust is a sobering reminder of why Jewish people must never depend on others to protect or rescue them from catastrophic threats. Its revelations and conclusions should shock and dismay all…
The blood libel — the accusation that Jews murder Christian children to use their blood in religious rituals, especially for baking Passover matzos — is one of history’s most pernicious and long-lived antisemitic tropes. Dr. Magda Teter has conducted extensive research on the subject and authored the book Blood Libel: On the Trail of an…
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…
Deborah E. Lipstadt, 72, is a renowned expert on modern Jewish history, antisemitism, and the Holocaust. For more than 25 years, she has taught those subjects as a professor at Atlanta’s Emory University. Lipstadt’s published works include Denying the Holocaust (1993), History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier (2005), and The…
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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