1. Joe Lieberman

    Joseph Isadore Lieberman (born February 24, 1942) is an American politician from Connecticut. Lieberman was first elected to the United States Senate in 1988, and was elected to his fourth term on November 7, 2006. In the 2000 U.S. presidential election, Lieberman was the Democratic candidate for Vice President, running alongside presidential nominee Al Gore, becoming the first Jewish candidate on a major American political party presidential ticket.

  2. Sandy Koufax

    Koufax attended Brooklyn's Lafayette High School. While there, he was better known for basketball and than for baseball. When he started high school, school sports were not available because the New York school teachers were refusing to supervise extracurricular activities without monetary compensation. As an alternative to school sports, Koufax started playing basketball for a local Jewish Community Center team.

  3. Arnold Eisen

    Arnold (Arnie) Eisen, Ph.D. (1951-) is Koshland Professor of Jewish Culture and Religion and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1986. Prior to teaching at Stanford, he taught at Tel Aviv University and Columbia University. Eisen has been appointed the seventh Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, replacing Rabbi Dr. Ismar Schorsch. Eisen will be the second non-rabbi, after Cyrus Adler, …

  4. Meyer London

    Meyer London (1871 - 1926) was one of two Socialist Party members elected to the United States Congress. London was born in Kalvarija, Lithuania (then part of the Russian Empire) in 1871. In 1891, he emigrated to the United States, taking up residence in New York's largely Jewish Lower East Side. London became a labor lawyer representing labor unions. He ran for Congress three times as a Socialist and was defeated by Tammany Hall-supported Democrats, but in 1914, …

  5. Lindsey Vuolo

    Lindsey Eve Vuolo (born October 19, 1981) is an American model best known for her appearance in "Playboy" as the November 2001 Playmate. She graduated from Pennsbury High School in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, in 2000 and later attended Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She was named "Sports Night Queen" her senior year.

  6. Adam Lamberg

    Adam Matthew Lamberg (born September 14, 1984) is an American actor, perhaps best known playing David "Gordo" Gordon in the Disney Channel series "Lizzie McGuire" from 2001 to 2004. Lamberg was born in New York City to Suzanne, a public high school teacher, and Marc Lamberg. He attended P.S. 183 on the upper east side. His father is Jewish and his mother is French Canadian; Lamberg considers himself a "cultural Jew".

  7. Jason Bedrick

    Jason Bedrick (born June 5 1983) is a member of the New Hampshire state legislature. He is a Republican representing Windham, New Hampshire. He is also an Orthodox Jew. Bedrick is the first Orthodox Jew to hold elective office in New Hampshire, which has fewer than ten Orthodox Jewish families among its 1% Jewish population. New Hampshire has had several prominent Jewish elected officials, such as Paul Hodes and Warren Rudman, but no others have been Orthodox.

  8. Jonathan Bornstein

    Jonathan Rey Bornstein (born November 7, 1984 in Torrance, California) is an American soccer defender and midfielder, who currently plays for Chivas USA of Major League Soccer. He started his college soccer career at Cal Poly Pomona, and played there for three years before transferring to UCLA for the 2005 season. He was taken by Chivas in the fourth round at the 2006 MLS SuperDraft.

  9. Olga Taussky-Todd

    Olga Taussky Todd (August 30, 1906, Olomouc, then Austria-Hungary - October 7, 1995, Pasadena, California) was a Czech-American Jewish mathematician. She worked first in algebraic number theory, with a doctorate at the University of Vienna supervised by Philipp Furtwängler. During that time in Vienna she also attended the meetings of the Vienna Circle. Later, she started to use matrices to analyze vibrations of airplanes during World War II, …

  10. Charlie White

    Charlie White (born 1972, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a Los Angeles-based artist.

  11. Mortimer L. Schiff

    Mortimer Loeb Schiff (1877 - 1931) was a notable early Boy Scouts of America (BSA) leader. His son John M. Schiff was also involved with the BSA. Schiff was the only son of the German-Jewish American banker and philanthropist Jacob Schiff and his wife Therese. While he worked as a partner in the financial firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. from 1900 until his death in 1931, he also devoted much of his time to the development of scouting in America.

  12. Billy Wirth

    Billy Wirth (born June 23, 1962) is an American actor, film producer, and artist, perhaps best-known for his role in the 1987 film, "The Lost Boys". Wirth was born in New York City to a Jewish American father and a Native American mother. He attended Brown University. There, he was discovered by the noted photographer Bruce Weber, and began a modeling career in New York. He moved to California in the 1980s to pursue an acting career, …

  13. Lauren Storm

    Lauren Marlene Storm (born January 2, 1987) is an American actress. Storm was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her father is German Lutheran and her mother is Jewish, and Storm was raised in the Jewish religion. She serves on the Board of Directors of two charity organizations. Kids With A Cause and Olive Crest. At age 16, she graduated from the Excelsior School of Los Angeles.

  14. Tessa Kennedy

    Tessa Georgina Kennedy (born 7 December 1938) is a shipping heiress and British interior designer of Croatian and Anglo-Irish descent. In 1958 she eloped with the artist, Dominic Elwes, with whom she had three sons: actor Cary Elwes, film producer Cassian Elwes, and artist Damian Elwes. At age 29, during her marriage, she dated Mel Ferrer. Her second, and current husband is the Jewish-American, Hollywood executive Elliott Kastner.

  15. Dave Spector

    Dave Spector (デーブ・スペクター born in Chicago, Illinois) is one of the more visible "foreign celebrities" (gaijin tarento) in Japan. He is a Jewish American. He studied abroad at Sophia University in 1972. He has lived in Japan since 1983. He appears regularly as a commentator on several different Japanese television programmes (such as 'Soko made itte, iinkai').

  16. Solomon Stanwood Menken

    Solomon Stanwood Menken (1870 - 1954) was an attorney in the United States best known for having founded the National Security League. Menken was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1870 to Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Menken, who owned a dry goods store. The family moved to New York City when Menken was a boy. He attended the City College of New York but transferred to Cornell University, graduating in 1890. He later received a Bachelor of Laws from Columbia University.

  17. Susan Bernard

    Susan Bernard (born 11 February 1948 in Los Angeles, California) was "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the Month for its December 1966 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli. Susan is the daughter of Bruno Bernard, a celebrity photographer and Holocaust survivor, and Ruth Brand, a stage actress and director. She had a sporadic film and television career, …

  18. Walter Heiman

    Walter J. Heiman (Essen, Germany, March 12, 1901 - University City, Missouri, March 18, 2007) was a Jewish American man whom at the time of his death had become one of the last surviving veterans of the First World War. Born and raised in Germany, he enlisted as a private in the German Air Force in March 1918, at 17 years of age, after finishing high school. He was sent to an air base in Hanover for flight training, but the war ended before he finished training.

  19. Edward Jacobson

    Edward Jacobson (Born 17 June 1891, New York City - Died 25 October 1955, Kansas City, Missouri) was an American-Jewish businessman. He was also a U.S. Army associate, business partner, and friend of President Harry S. Truman. When Jacobson first heard about what was happening to the Jews in Germany, before and during World War II, he took to discussing it with Truman. After he heard the post-war reports regarding the Nazi Holocaust and its survivors, …