Annie Londonderry

Annie Londonderry was the first woman to bicycle around the world. She was a Jewish Latvian immigrant to...

Gmar Chatima Tova

Gmar Chatima Tova – May you be sealed in the Book of Life #YomKippur  Photo: Noam Chen

Mandy Patinkin

Watch as Mandy Patinkin discovers that his family members were victims of the Holocaust, contrary to what he...

Louis Armstrong

a Jewish Star necklace for most of his life? Armstrong was born in New Orleans on August 4,...

Leonard Nimoy

Leonard Nimoy discusses the Jewish connection to the Vulcan salute he used on Star Trek. Video: Yiddish Book...

Shana Tova

Wishing everyone a very happy, healthy and sweet new year! Shana Tova

Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen was born in Montreal on September 21, 1934. By 1973, Cohen was an international star. In...

Mark Twain

A note from Mark Twain about the Jewish people, published in the year 1899: “If the statistics are...

Danny Lewin

31 year old American Israeli Danny Lewin was the first victim of the September 11th attacks. Born in...

The Kooples

It’s New York Fashion Week! Rabbi Joshua Metzger with The Kooples – the Elicha Family – in town for the...

1972 Olympics, Munich

September 5, 1972, is known as the darkest day in Olympic history: the date of the Munich Massacre....

Shaul Ladany

On September 5-6, 1972, 11 Israelis were killed in an attack known as the Munich Massacre. During the...

Yemenite Bride

In this photo (taken in the Yemenite Jewish community in Israel) a bride is helped by an older...

LAX > TLV

LAX > TLV Morning prayers in the sky Photo: Benjamin Ilulian

Judith Love Cohen

Judith Love Cohen was a NASA engineer who helped create the Abort-Guidance System, used to rescue the Apollo...

Solvay Conference, 1927

The most intelligent picture ever taken; the world’s most notable physicists at the Solvay Conference, in Brussels, Belgium,...

The Stiller Family

Amy, Anne, Jerry and Ben; the Stiller family in New York City, 1980. Photo: Lynn Goldsmith

Mildred Kirschenbaum

My mother, Mildred Kirschenbaum, was born August 25, 1923 in Brooklyn, NY. Her parents were immigrants from Poland...

Mordechai and Yenta

I am 67. I just read this letter that my mother wrote about her grandparents. I never knew...

Golda and Morris

Newlyweds Golda Meir and her husband Morris Meyerson in Chicago, 1918. Photo: UWM Libraries

Levi Strauss

Here’s some Jewish history behind the invention of jeans. Levi Strauss was born as Loeb Strauss, to a...

Azriel and Azriel

“This is my son Azriel Rifkin (left), who is named after my Grandfather Azriel Shnay Z”L (right), a...

Paul Rudd

Before he was famous, Paul Rudd was a Bar Mitzvah DJ! Rudd was born on April 6, 1969,...

Leonard Fournette

Yesterday, Super Bowl Champion and NFL running back, Leonard Fournette, made a surprise visit to upstate NY at Camp...

Bess Myerson

Just months after the revelations of the Holocaust’s devastation, Bess Myerson was crowned the first (and only) Jewish...

Martin Greenfield

Happy Birthday to the world-renowned Master Tailor, Martin Greenfield! Born Maximilian Grünfeld on August 9, 1928, in Pavlovo,...

Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr was considered one of the most beautiful women in Europe. She was born as Hedwig Eva...

Ken!

“How do you say yes in Hebrew?” Ken!

Zinayida Segal

“The Nazis occupied our village when I was only 12 years old. At first they didn’t realize we...

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