The president of the Brazilian Olympic Committee: Carlos Arthur Nuzman
Carlos Arthur Nuzman (b. 1942) was born in Rio de Janeiro, the grandson of Russian-Jewish immigrants to Brazil. His father was very active in the Jewish community, and served as the president of the More...
Person of the Week: Lawrence Kasdan, the star of ‘I Am Your Father’
Lawrence Edward Kasdan (1949) was born in Miami and raised in a small West Virginia town, where he was often picked on for being Jewish. He intended to become an English teacher, and graduated with a Master’s More...
WATCH Jews of the Week: Krav Maga & The Jewish Bruce Lee
the “Jewish Bruce Lee” Perhaps the best-known Krav Maga expert today is Roy Elghanayan, nicknamed the “Jewish Bruce Lee”. He began his training in Krav Maga and martial arts at an early age, and his More...
America’s First Jewish President?
Bernard Sanders (b. 1941) was born in Brooklyn. He studied political science at the University of Chicago in the 1960s, and was a leader of the Civil Rights Movement on campus, for which he was once arrested. More...
Jews of the Week: Doris and Donald Fisher – The Gap
Donald George Fisher (1928-2009) was born in San Francisco to a middle-class Jewish family. Soon after graduating with a business degree from UC Berkeley, he married Stanford graduate Doris Feigenbaum (b. More...
Jew of the Week: Ahmed Zayat
Ephraim Ahmed Zayat (b. 1962) was born in Cairo to a wealthy Orthodox Jewish-Egyptian family. His father was Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s personal doctor. Zayat studied in the US at Yeshiva More...