- Jonathan Pollard
Jonathan Jay Pollard (born August 7 1954 in South Bend, Indiana) is a convicted Israeli spy and a former United States Naval civilian intelligence analyst. Pollard waived the right to trial in return for restrictions on sentencing, pleaded guilty and was convicted on one count of spying for Israel, receiving a life sentence in 1986 with a recommendation against parole. Israel publicly denied that Pollard was an Israeli spy until 1998, … - Hyman G. Rickover
Admiral Hyman George Rickover, U.S. Navy, (January 27, 1900 – July 8, 1986) was known as the "Father of the Nuclear Navy", which as of July 2007 had produced 200 nuclear-powered submarines, and 23 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and cruisers, though many of these U.S. vessels are now decommissioned and others under construction. With his unique personality, political connections, responsibilities and depth of knowledge regarding naval nuclear propulsion, … - Jeremy Michael Boorda
Jeremy Michael Boorda was an admiral of the United States Navy and the 25th Chief of Naval Operations (CNO). Boorda is celebrated for being the first (and so far, only) CNO to have risen to the position from the enlisted ranks. - 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, … - Tibor Rubin
Tibor "Ted" Rubin (born June 18,1929) is a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor who immigrated to the United States in 1948, and was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Korean War by President George W. Bush on September 23, 2005. Rubin is a resident of Garden Grove, California, the same hometown of Medal of Honor Nominee Michael A. Monsoor. Rubin was repeatedly nominated for various medals and awards, … - Samuel A. Goldblith
Samuel A. Goldblith (May 5, 1919-December 28, 2001) was an American food scientist. While involved in World War II, he studied malnutrition, and later was involved in food research important for space exploration. - Wesley Clark
Wesley Kanne Clark (born December 23 1944) is a retired four-star general of the United States Army. Clark was valedictorian of his class at West Point, was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford where he obtained a degree in PPE, and later graduated from the Command and General Staff College with a master's degree in military science. He spent 34 years in the Army and the Department of Defense, receiving many military decorations, … - Jack Ruby
Jacob Rubenstein, who legally changed his name to Jack Leon Ruby in 1947, was a Dallas businessman and nightclub owner. He was convicted of the November 24, 1963 murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, two days after Oswald's arrest for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He successfully appealed his conviction and sentence of death. As a date for his new trial was being set, he took ill and died. - Hank Greenberg
Henry Benjamin "Hank" Greenberg, nicknamed "Hammerin' Hank," was an American baseball player whose Major League Baseball (MLB) career spanned the the 1930s and 1940s. Though Greenberg's MLB career lasted from 1930 until 1947, he only appeared in a game in 13 of those seasons. A first baseman primarily for the Detroit Tigers, Greenberg was one of the premier power hitters of his generation. - Barry Farber
Barry Farber (born 1930) is a conservative U.S. radio talk show host, author and language-learning enthusiast. In 2002, industry publication "Talkers magazine" ranked him the 9th greatest radio talk show host of all time. He has also written articles appearing in the "New York Times, Reader's Digest," the "Washington Post, "and the Saturday Review. - Judah Touro
Judah Touro (Newport, Rhode Island, June 16, 1775 - New Orleans, January 13, 1854) was an American businessman and philanthropist. - Haym Solomon
Haym Solomon (or Salomon) (1740-1785) was a prime financier of the American side during the American Revolutionary War against the United Kingdom. A Jew, he was born in Leszno (Lissa), Poland, the son of a rabbi. He died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. - Sam Dreben
Sam Dreben (June 1, 1878 - March 14, 1925), sometimes misspelled "Drebben", and known as "The Fighting Jew", was a highly decorated soldier in the US army and a mercenary who fought in a variety of wars and revolutions. - Barney Ross
Barney Ross, born Dov-Ber Rasofsky (December 23, 1909-January 17, 1967), was an American three-time world boxing champion and a war hero during World War II. - Edward Ellsberg
Edward Ellsberg (November 21, 1891 - January 24, 1983) was an officer in the U.S. Navy and a popular author. Ellsberg was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and grew up in Colorado. He graduated from the US Naval Academy, B.Sc, 1914; and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M.Sc., 1920. He received an honorary Eng.D. from University of Colorado in 1929. Ellsberg was commissioned in the Navy in 1914 and served on active duty until 1926. - Mickey Marcus
David Daniel Marcus (22 February 1901-10 June 1948), commonly known as Mickey Marcus, was an American United States Army colonel who assisted Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and who became Israel's first Major General. Marcus is the best known Israeli Machal (the Hebrew acronym for "Mitnadvei CHutz Laaretz"/"volunteers from outside Israel") soldier, … - David Greenglass
David Greenglass (b. 2 March 1922 in New York City) was an atomic spy for the Soviet Union - Jack H. Jacobs
Jack H. Jacobs (born August 2, 1945 in Brooklyn, New York) is a retired Colonel in the United States Army and a Medal of Honor recipient for his heroic actions during the Vietnam War. He currently serves as a military analyst for MSNBC and previously worked as an investment manager. - Morris Cohen
Morris Cohen a.k.a. in London as Peter Kroger (2 July 1910 - 23 June 1995), was born in New York. His father was from an area near Kiev in present-day Ukraine, and his mother was born in Vilnius in present-day Lithuania. Cohen received an athletic scholarship as an outstanding rugby player to attend Columbia University. - Uriah P. Levy
Uriah Phillips Levy was the first Jewish Commodore of the United States Navy and a veteran of the War of 1812. At the time, Commodore was the highest rank obtainable in the U.S. Navy and would be roughly equivalent to the modern-day rank of Admiral. During his tenure, he ended the Navy's practice of flogging and fought against anti-Semitism found in the service. Levy is also known for his purchase and restoration of Thomas Jefferson's estate, Monticello, … - Loveman Noa
David Bernard Loveman Noa (5 October 1878 - 26 October 1901) was an officer in the United States Navy. He was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee to Jewish immigrants, Ismar Noa (1836-1906) of Breslau, Poland; and Rose B. Loveman (1842-1923) of Hungary. His siblings were: Ernestine Noa (1871-1951); Bianca Noa (1874-1945) who married Albert Hodges Morehead, Sr. (1852-1922); and Wallace Noa (1876-1908). Noa was appointed to the Naval Academy as a midshipman on September 5, 1896. - Joe Gould
Joe Gould was the American manager and good friend of boxer James J. Braddock, who in 1935 upset Max Baer to take the world heavyweight championship. Later, Gould, who was of Jewish descent, played a role in having Braddock fight Joe Louis rather than Max Schmeling, in order to prevent a propaganda victory by the Nazi regime. Gould, it could be argued, pulled off one of the most astute deals in sport business history. - Jonas Phillips
Jonas Phillips (1736-1803), was the first of the Phillips family to settle in America. A founder of Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia, Phillips was the father of twenty-two children and the grandfather of Uriah Phillips Levy, the first Jewish Commodore in the United States Navy. - Edward S. Salomon
Edward Selig Salomon (December 25, 1836 - July 18, 1913) was a Prussian immigrant to the United States who served as a Union brigadier general in the American Civil War and later became governor of Washington Territory and a California legislator. - Ben L. Salomon
Benjamin Lewis Salomon (September 1, 1914 - July 7, 1944) was a United States Army surgeon who defended his aid station, allowing the safe evacuation of the wounded, killing 98 enemy troops before being killed during the Battle of Saipan in World War II. In 2002, Salomon was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. Salomon's Medal of Honor is one of many that were delayed or denied to Jewish soldiers under circumstances that are often described as anti-Semitic or racist. - Maurice Rose
General Maurice Rose (November 26, 1899 - March 31, 1945) was an American military officer in the United States Army during World War I and World War II. The son and grandson of Rabbis, General Rose was at the time the highest ranking person of Jewish descent in the US Army. He was married twice and had two sons. The Third Armored Division official history of World War II, published after Rose had been killed in action states "He was over six feet tall, erect, dark haired, … - Paul Logasa Bogen
Paul Logasa Bogen (March 15, 1915 - June 4 1972) was a United States Army soldier. He served in WWII in the European theatre-Normandy/Brittany/N. France the Ardennes/Rhineland. Later he served as a senior U.S. Army Colonel during the Vietnam War. He was the son of Dr. Issac Louis Bogen, who discoverer of the aerosol delivery of asthma medication, and Ida Ruth "Bogen" Goldhammer-sister and are the niece and nephew respectively to library innovator, … - Francis Salvador
Francis Salvador (1747 - August 1, 1776), was the first American Jew to be killed in the American Revolution. Salvador was born in London, but emigrated to America from London, where his great-grandfather, Joseph Salvador, was a prominent businessman, and leader of the local Portuguese-speaking Sephardic Jewish community. - Sidney Shapiro
Sidney Shapiro (born December 23, 1915) is an American-born author and translator who has lived in China since 1947. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he is of Jewish ethnicity. He resides in Beijing, and is a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Council. Shapiro has held citizenship of the People's Republic of China since 1963, before the Cultural Revolution. He is a member of the People's Political Consultative Conference, … - Beatrice Arthur
Beatrice Arthur (born Bernice Frankel, May 13, 1922; alternately billed as Bea Arthur) is an Emmy and Tony Award winning American comedienne, actress and singer. She is known for her distinctive deep voice, acid wit and prominent stature, standing almost 5 ft 10 in (1.77 m). In a career spanning five decades and encompassing film, television, and theater, … - Adolph Marix
Adolph Marix (April 24, 1848-1919), was an American officer in the United States Navy, who served in the Spanish-American War. The former executive officer of the battleship "USS Maine", he served as recorder on the court of inquiry which investigated the ship's explosion in 1898. He eventually rose to the rank of vice admiral. - Julius Ochs Adler
Julius Ochs Adler (December 3, 1892-October 3, 1955) was a U.S. publisher, journalist, and United States Army General. He was the president and publisher of "The Chatanooga Times", and general manager of "The New York Times" from 1935 until 1955. He became general manager at the Times after the death in 1935 of his uncle, Adolph Ochs. Julius Adler was an officer and decorated veteran of World War I, served in the Army Reserve between the two world wars, … - Hank Bergman
Hank Bergman was an undefeated amateur boxer and a highly decorated combat veteran of World War II. Later, he invented the "Sling-Shot Punch" which was used by his son, Sherman Bergman, a professional kickboxer. - Frederick C. Salomon
Frederick C. Salomon (April 7, 1826 - March 8, 1897) was a German-Prussian immigrant to the United States who served as a Union brigadier general in the American Civil War. Salomon had settled in Wisconsin, where he was the chief engineer with Manitowoc and Wisconsin railroad. In 1861 he joined the Missouri 5th Infantry and was present at Wilson's Creek. He was appointed colonel of the 9th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment, and made a brigadier general in 1862. - Jacob Hirschorn
Jacob Hirschorn (born in Fuerth, Bavaria, in 1830) was a Jewish-American immigrant from Germany who served in the Mexican War and wrote a dramatic memoir entitled "The Mexican War. Reminiscences of a Volunteer" from which the following information and quotations are taken. Hirschhorn immigrated to the U.S. at age 16, leaving his sister and widowed mother behind. He frequented a cafe on Broadway in New York where "the best class of French and German" drank cognac. - John Bertram Oakes
John Bertram Oakes (b. April 23, 1913-April 5, 2001) an iconoclastic and influential journalist known for his early commitment to the environment, civil rights, and opposition to the Vietnam War, was born in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, the second son of George Washington Ochs Oakes and Bertie Gans. The creator of the modern op-ed page and editor of the "New York Times" editorial page from 1961 to 1976, his was an idealistic and progressive American voice. - Leopold Karpeles
Leopold Karpeles (1838-1909) was a flagbearer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Born in Prague, his family moved to Texas when Leopold was young. When war broke out and Texas seceded, he moved away, feeling no association with the Confederate States of America. Karpeles was awarded the Medal of Honor for rallying retreating troops, inducing them to check the enemy's advance while under heavy fire on May 6, 1864, during the Battle of the Wilderness. - Herbert Sobel
Herbert M. Sobel (January 26, 1912 - September 30, 1987) was an officer in the United States Army during World War II. He was initially the commanding officer of Company "E" in the 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, the unit that is the subject of the book "Band of Brothers" by author Stephen Ambrose. In the BBC/HBO miniseries adaptation of the book, Captain Sobel was portrayed by actor David Schwimmer. - Robert Rosenthal
Lieutenant Colonel Robert "Rosie" Rosenthal (June 111917 - April 20 2007) was a highly-decorated pilot in the Eighth Air Force of the United States Army Air Forces in World War II, … - Max Dimont
Max I. Dimont (born Maximilian Israel DiMont) (August 12, 1912-March 1992) was a Finnish-American historian and author. Born to a Jewish family in Helsinki, Finland, Dimont came to the United States in 1930. He taught himself the English language by reading Shakespeare, the Bible, and American plays translated into Finnish. After serving with U.S. Army intelligence in World War II, …
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