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World War I (July 28, 1914 — Nov. 11, 1918) was the most horrific, most deadly conflagration to that point in human history. The “War to End All Wars,” as it was dubbed, took the lives of an estimated 9 million combatants and 13 million civilians. The genocidal antisemitism of the Second World War, an…
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Note: The views expressed are solely those of the featured individuals. They do not necessarily reflect the thinking of Project Star of David. Tomiwa Owolade is a London-based writer and critic of African origin. In the video interview and article linked below, he expresses his thought-provoking and undoubtedly controversial ideas. The interview with Owolade…
The Abraham Accords, which ushered in peace agreements between Israel and four countries — the United Arab Emirates, Bahrein, Sudan, and Morocco — has shown for the first time in decades that peace is possible between the Jewish state and Muslin nations. Other players — Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, for example — may be next.…
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On April 6-8, 1903 — continuing on April 19-21 and later in October 1905 — vicious anti-Jewish attacks, which became known as the Kishinev Pogrom, took place in the Bessarabia Governorate in the Russian Empire. (The location is now Chișinău, the capital of Moldova.) At the time, the antisemitic murders, rapes, and destruction of property…
OOOOO French Jews were outraged in mid-October by the case of a man who spray painted more than 20 swastikas along the rue du Rovili in the heart of Paris. The Paris prosecutor’s office refused to link the incident to antisemitism, claiming that because the vandalism did not specifically deface a historically “Jewish building,” the…
There are an untold number of tragic stories from the Holocaust — indeed, the entire horrific event was an unimaginable tragedy — but one story that has resonated for the past eight decades is the ill-fated voyage of the MS St. Louis. In 1939, the German passenger liner carried more than 900 Jewish refugees fleeing…
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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