- Philip Roth
Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933, Newark, New Jersey) is an American novelist. He gained early literary fame for the 1959 collection "Goodbye, Columbus", grabbed headlines with his 1969 bestseller "Portnoy's Complaint", and has continued to write noted literary works, many of which featured his fictional alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman. The Zuckerman novels started with "The Ghost Writer" in 1979, … - Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph.D (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, and a prolific author and lecturer. He is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, considered to be one of the most significant contributions to the field of linguistics made in the 20th century. - Norman Finkelstein
Norman G. Finkelstein (born December 8 1953) is an American professor of political science and author. A graduate of Binghamton University, he received his Ph.D in Political Science from Princeton University. He has held faculty positions at Brooklyn College, Rutgers University, Hunter College, New York University, and most recently, DePaul University, where he is an assistant professor since 2001. Finkelstein was denied tenure at DePaul in June 2007, … - Daniel Pipes
Daniel Pipes (born September 9, 1949) is an American historian and counter-terrori sm analyst who specializes in the Middle East. He has written or co-written 18 books, maintains a blog, and lectures around the world presenting his analysis of world trends. His work has attracted both admiration and criticism as a result of his view that Islamism is incompatible with democracy, freedom, multiculturalis m, and human rights. - 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. - Woody Allen
Woody Allen is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. His large body of work and cerebral film style, mixing satire, wit and humor, have made him one of the most respected and prolific filmmakers in the modern era. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, philosophy, psychology, Judaism, … - Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow, born Solomon Bellows, (Lachine, Quebec, Canada, June 10, 1915 - April 5, 2005 in Brookline, Massachusetts) was an acclaimed Canadian-born American writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976 and the National Medal of Arts in 1988. Bellow is best known for writing novels that investigate isolation, spiritual dissociation, and the possibilities of human awakening. Bellow drew inspiration from Chicago, his adopted city, … - Alan Dershowitz
Alan Morton Dershowitz (born September 1, 1938) is an American political figure and criminal law professor at Harvard Law School known for his extensive published works, career as an attorney in several high-profile law cases, and commentary on the Arab-Israeli conflict. He has spent most of his career at Harvard Law School, where, at the age of 28, he became the youngest full professor in the history of Harvard, … - Albert Einstein
This German born physicist is considered one of the world's greatest thinkers in history. Not only did he shape the way people think of time, space, matter, energy, and gravity but he also was a supporter of Zionism and peaceful living. Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm Germany, and spent most of his youth living in Munich, where his family owned a small electric machinery shop. He attended schooling in Munich, which he found unimaginative and dull. - Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, musician, and poet who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. Much of Dylan's most recognized work dates from the 1960s, when he became an informal documentarian and a reluctant figurehead of American unrest. A number of his songs, such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'", … - Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart is a nine-time Emmy-winning American comedian, satirist, actor, writer, author, and producer. He is perhaps best known as the host of Comedy Central’s "The Daily Show" and for his political satire. Stewart started off as a stand-up comedian but later moved on to television, hosting "Short Attention Span Theater" for Comedy Central. He then went on to host his own show on MTV, called "The Jon Stewart Show". - Henry A. Kissinger
Newly declassified State Department documents obtained by the National Security Archive under the Freedom of Information Act show that in October 1976, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and high ranking U.S. officials gave their full support to the Argentine military junta and urged them to hurry up and finish the "dirty war" before the U.S. Congress cut military aid. - Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman is an American progressive broadcast journalist and author. A 1984 graduate of Harvard University, Goodman is best known as the principal host of Pacifica Radio's "Democracy Now!" program, where she has been described by the Los Angeles Times as "radio's voice of the disenfranchised left". Coverage of the peace and human rights movements — and support of the independent media — are the hallmarks of her work. - Elie Wiesel
Eliezer Wiesel, KBE (commonly known as Elie Wiesel, born September 30, 1928) is a Romania-born American novelist, political activist, and Holocaust survivor of Hungarian Jewish descent. He is the author of over 40 books, the best known of which is "Night", a memoir that describes his experiences during the Holocaust and his imprisonment in several concentration camps. Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. - Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg KBE (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director and producer. Spielberg is a three-time Academy Award winner and is the highest grossing filmmaker of all time, with an estimated net worth of $3 billion. As of 2006, "Premiere" listed him as the most powerful and influential figure in the motion picture industry. "TIME" named him in the '100 Greatest People of the Century'. - David Horowitz
The David Horowitz Freedom Center was founded in the 1988 by political activist David Horowitz and his long-time collaborato... ... The David Horowitz Freedom Center was founded in the 1988 by political activist David Horowitz and his long-time collaborato... - Daniel Pearl
Daniel Pearl was an American journalist who was kidnapped and murdered in Karachi, Pakistan. At the time of his kidnapping, Pearl had been investigating the case of Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, and alleged links between Al Qaeda and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). In March 2007, at a closed military hearing in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed reportedly boasted that he had personally beheaded Pearl. - Jonah Goldberg
Jonah Jacob Goldberg (born March 21, 1969), is an American conservative commentator. Goldberg is known for his contributions on politics and culture to "National Review Online", where he is the editor-at-large. He also frequently appears on television, on such shows as "Good Morning America", "Crossfire", "Nightline", "Hardball with Chris Matthews", "Larry King Live" and "Your World with Neil Cavuto". - Arthur Miller
Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American literature and cinema for over 61 years, writing a wide variety of plays, including celebrated plays such as "The Crucible", "A View from the Bridge", "All My Sons", and "Death of a Salesman", which are still studied and performed worldwide. - Bernard Malamud
Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 - March 18, 1986) was an American writer. - Tony Kushner
Mr. Kushner is a leading playwright and a major voice in American Theatre who has won a Pulitzer Prize for drama, two Tony Awards for Best Play and an Emmy. ... Tony Kushner has been hailed as one of the leading playwrights of his generation and is a major voice in American Theatre. - Seymour Hersh
Seymour Myron "Sy" Hersh (born April 8, 1937 Chicago) is an American Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and author based in Washington, DC. He is a regular contributor to "The New Yorker" magazine on military and security matters. His work first gained worldwide recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer (November 21, 1902 (see notes below) – July 24, 1991) was a Nobel Prize-winning Polish born American writer of both short stories and novels. He wrote in Yiddish. - Cynthia Ozick
In a quiet and perhaps inscrutable way, Cynthia Ozick has achieved acclaim and adulation that most certainly places her in the front ranks of the great living American writers. She was born and raised in the Bronx, attended Hunter College High School, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from New York University and earned her master's degree at Ohio State University. She is the author of numerous highly regarded works of fiction and cogitation. - Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt was a German Jewish political theorist. She has often been described as a philosopher, although she always refused that label on the grounds that philosophy is concerned with "man in the singular". She described herself instead as a political theorist because her work centers on the fact that "men, not Man, live on the earth and inhabit the world." - Jonathan Safran Foer
Writer Jonathan Safran Foer grew up in Washington, D.C., and attended Princeton University. After graduation he worked at a number of jobs including as a morgue assistant, receptionist, math tutor, ghostwriter, and archivist. He was awarded the Zoetrope: All Story Fiction Prize in 2000, and his stories have appeared in the Paris Review and Conjunctions , and he also edited Convergence of Birds , an anthology inspired by Joseph Cornell . - Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman, born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel is a Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-nominated Israeli-American actress. - Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926 - August 5, 1962), was a Golden Globe Award-winning American actress, singer, model and pop icon. She was known for her comedic skills and screen presence, going on to become one of the most popular movie stars of the 1950s and early 1960s. At the later stages of her career, she worked towards serious roles with a measure of success. - Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks (born June 28, 1926) is an Academy Award-winning American director, writer, comedian, actor and producer best known as a creator of broad film farces and comedy parodies. - Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett Johansson (born November 22, 1984) is an American actress. She rose to fame with her role in 1998's "The Horse Whisperer" and subsequently gained critical acclaim for her roles in "Ghost World", "Lost in Translation" and "Girl with a Pearl Earring", the latter two earning her Golden Globe Award nominations in 2003. - David Wurmser
David Wurmser is a Swiss-American dual citizen and the Middle East Adviser to US Vice President Dick Cheney. Wurmser, a neoconservative, previously served as special assistant to John R. Bolton at the State Department and was a former research fellow on the Middle East at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). - Charles Krauthammer
Charles Krauthammer, (born 13 March 1950), is a Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist and commentator. Krauthammer appears regularly as a guest commentator on "Fox News". His print work appears in the "Washington Post", "Time" magazine and "The Weekly Standard". - Larry King
Larry King (born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger on November 19, 1933) is an iconic award-winning American writer, journalist and broadcaster. He currently hosts a nightly interview program on CNN called "Larry King Live", one of the longest running talk shows on air. - Abraham Foxman
Abraham Henry Foxman (born 1940) is the current National Director and chairman of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. - Wolf Blitzer
Wolf Blitzer (born March 22, 1948 in Buffalo, New York) is an American journalist and author. He has been a "CNN" reporter since 1990. Blitzer is currently the host of the newscast "The Situation Room" and the Sunday talk show "Late Edition". Blitzer previously hosted "Wolf Blitzer Reports", which was replaced by "The Situation Room". - Scooter Libby
I. Lewis ("Scooter") Libby, Jr. (born August 22, 1950) is a Jewish-American lawyer and former top aide to U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney. Libby was Cheney's Chief of Staff and Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs from 2001 to 2005. His "constant presence behind the scenes in the Bush administration" brought him the nickname "Dick Cheney's Dick Cheney." During the George H. W. Bush administration, … - Barbra Streisand
Barbra Joan Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an Academy Award-winning American singer, theatre and film actress, composer, liberal political activist, film producer and director. She has won Oscars for Best Actress and Best Original Song as well as multiple Emmy Awards, Grammy Awards, Golden Globe Awards. Streisand has ranked as the best selling female album artist of all-time in the United States, according to the RIAA, for over thirty years. - Allen Ginsberg
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 - April 5 1997) was an American poet. Ginsberg is best known for "Howl" (1956), a long poem about the self-destruction of his friends of the Beat Generation and what he saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in United States at the time. - Dennis B. Ross
Dennis Ross Ross is a distinguished fellow and counselor for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. For more than twelve years, Ross played the leading role in shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process and in dealing directly with the the parties in negotiations. A highly skilled diplomat, Ambassador Ross was this country's point man on the peace process in both the Bush and Clinton administrations. - Ben Stein
Benjamin Jeremy Stein (born November 25, 1944) is an Emmy Award-winning American lawyer, law professor, actor, comedian, game show host and former White House speechwriter. He is the son of noted economist and writer Herbert Stein. His sister, Rachel, is a writer.
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