Albanian PM Edi Rama: ‘[Fighting] Antisemitism Is a Cause for Everyone’
Edi Rama has served as the 33rd and current prime minister of Albania since 2013 and…
Edi Rama has served as the 33rd and current prime minister of Albania since 2013 and…
In early May of this year, a Haredi resident of the Belgium port city of Antwerp was the intended victim of an assault. (In 2022, there have been numerous antisemitic attacks in Antwerp, where some 18,000 Jews — most of them haredi — live.) This time, the perpetrator got more than he bargained for: The…
Samuel del Campo (1882 – 1960) was a Chilean diplomat during the Second World War. From 1941 until Chile joined the Allies in 1943, he worked in…
In late July, President Joe Biden nominated Lipstadt to be the United States Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating anti-Semitism.
Dr. Deborah E. Lipstadt is a Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Atlanta. She is also…
Faye Schulman was a resistance fighter and photographer who chronicled…
Princess Alice is among the Righteous of the Nations, non-Jews who have been honored by Israel for saving Jews…
Henryk Ross (1910 – 1991) was a Polish Jewish photographer employed by the Department of Statistics for the Jewish Council in the Łódź Ghetto during WQorld War II. Ross also managed to document Nazi atrocities, including children digging for scraps of food and large groups of Jews being led to deportation and being loaded into…
Miss France 2021 — the 91st edition of the French national beauty pageant — took place on Dec. 19, 2020. The winner of the competition was Amandine Petit, who represented the region of Normandy. The first runner-up was April Benayoum, 21, a model and winner of the title Miss Provence. After Benayoum alluded to her…
Taylor Nichols, M.D., a young Jewish doctor, was confronted with an ethical dilemma in the Northern California emergency room where he works: He was called upon to treat a seriously ill patient with multiple tattooed swastikas and other hate symbols on his body. The man implored Dr. Nichols, “Don’t let me die, doc.” A heartwarming…
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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