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Sign on Nobel Laureates Boulevard in Rishon LeZion saluting Jewish Nobel laureates. Of the 965 individual recipients of the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences between 1901 and 2023, [1] at least 216 have been Jews or people with at least one Jewish parent, representing 22% of all recipients. Jews comprise only 0.2% of ...
List of Jewish anarchists; List of Jewish chess players; List of Jewish economists; List of Jewish feminists; List of Jewish historians; List of Jewish mathematicians; List of Jewish scientists; List of Jewish United States Supreme Court justices; List of Jews in politics; List of Jews in sports; List of Jews in the performing arts. List of ...
In the aftermath, most Jewish population is annihilated (about 580,000 killed) and Hadrian renames the province of Judea to Syria Palaestina, and attempts to root out Judaism. 136 Rabbi Akiva is martyred. 138 With Emperor Hadrian's death, the persecution of Jews within the Roman Empire is eased and Jews are allowed to visit Jerusalem on Tisha B ...
Angela Warnick Buchdahl, American Reform Jewish Rabbi, converted to Orthodox Judaism at age 21. She was not raised within the Buddhist faith; however, her mother is Buddhist so by Orthodox Jewish law she was not considered Jewish, but she was raised Jewish and so by Reform Jewish law she has always been Jewish.
The following is a list of people who were in the position of the leaders of the Jewish nation, heads of state and/or government in the Land of Israel. Because of the position of the Land of Israel in Judaism, the leaders of the inhabitants of the land had a priority status also over Diaspora Jewry, although there were periods when this status weakened due to the weakening of the Jewish ...
"for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people" [1] Literature: 1978 Menachem Begin "for the peace treaty concluded between Israel and Egypt" [2] Peace: 1994 Shimon Peres "for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East" [3] Yitzhak Rabin: 2002 Daniel Kahneman
Hillel the Elder (110 BCE – 10 CE), a famous Jewish religious leader and one of the most important figures in Jewish history, associated with the development of the Mishnah and the Talmud; Josephus (37–100), Jewish-Roman historian; James the Just (d. 69), Jewish-Christian Bishop of Jerusalem
The Cabinet of the United States, which is the principal advisory body to the President of the United States, has had 47 Jewish American members altogether. Of that number, 27 different Jewish American individuals held a total of 27 permanent cabinet posts, having served as the heads of the federal executive departments; 20 different Jewish Americans have held 21 cabinet-level positions, which ...