- David Klinghoffer
David Klinghoffer is a controversial author and essayist, and a Senior Fellow of the Discovery Institute, an organization that supports the concept of intelligent design as an alternative to evolution. He is also a frequent contributor to National Review and a columnist for the Jewish weekly newspaper The Forward. Klinghoffer is a practicing Orthodox Jew who has written a spiritual memoir about his journey from Reform Judaism to becoming "ba'al tshuva" (Hebrew, …
- Dov Hikind
Dov Hikind is an American politician in the state of New York. He is a Democratic New York State Assemblyman. Hikind is an Orthodox Jew representing Brooklyn's Assembly district 48 which has many Orthodox Jews living in it. He has held this position since 1982 and has been very vocal about racial profiling, terrorism, and Antisemitism in his district, which includes Borough Park. Hikind hosts a weekly talk radio show every Saturday night, which discusses various local, …
- Uri Lupolianski
Uri Lupolianski (born 1951) is the current mayor of Jerusalem. He is a member of the United Torah Judaism party and is the first Haredi Jewish person to be elected to the position of mayor. Lupolianski was elected a Jerusalem City Council member in 1989. He has held the positions of lead Deputy Mayor, Chairperson of the Planning and Building committee and was responsible for the Family Services and Community Portfolio.
- Simcha Felder
Simcha Felder, an Orthodox Jew, is a member of the New York City Council from Brooklyn. A Democrat, he represents the 44th Council District, which encompasses parts of Borough Park, Midwood and Bensonhurst. Felder is Chair of the Council's Committee on Governmental Operations, a position that he has held since January 2006. Most notably, the committee has provided oversight of the City Board of Elections implementation of the Help America Vote Act.
- Mordechai ben David
Mordechai Werdyger, generally known as Mordechai Ben David or MBD is known as "The King of Jewish Music", and has produced a record amount of Jewish albums, many of them hits. His father David Werdyger) was a popular Jewish singer and cantor originally from Cracow and is a "Schindler" Jew.
- Herman Wouk
Herman Wouk (born May 27, 1915) is a bestselling American author with a number of notable novels to his credit, including "The Caine Mutiny", "The Winds of War", and "War and Remembrance". Herman Wouk was born in New York City into a Jewish family that had emigrated from Russia. After a childhood and adolescence in the Bronx and a high school diploma from Townsend Harris High School, he earned an B.A. from Columbia University in 1934, …
- Eli Yishai
Eliyahu (Eli) Yishai (in Hebrew אליהו (אלי) ישי) (born December 26, 1962) is an Israeli politician and head of the Shas party. He is married and has seven children.
- Faye Kellerman
Born in St. Louis, USA in 1952, Faye Kellerman is the author of the "Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus" crime novel series, as well as three non-series books, "The Quality of Mercy", "Moon Music" and "Straight into Darkness". She attended UCLA where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theoretical Mathematics in 1974. Four years later she received her Doctorate of Dental Surgery degree. At that time she "fully intended to pursue a career as a dentist".
- Yeshayahu Leibowitz
Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903-1994) was an Israeli scientist, philosopher and public figure noted for his outspoken and often controversial opinions regarding morals, ethics, politics, and religion.
- Ben Shapiro
Ben Shapiro (born 1984 in Burbank, California) is an Orthodox Jew and conservative political columnist and author.
- Hyam Maccoby
Hyam Maccoby (1924-2004) was a British scholar, dramatist, and Orthodox Jew specializing in the study of the Jewish and Christian religious tradition. In retirement he moved to Leeds, where he held an academic position at the Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Leeds. Maccoby was known for his theories of the historical Jesus and the historical origins of Christianity Maccoby also wrote extensively on the phenomenon of ancient and modern Anti-Semitism.
- Shlomo Goren
Shlomo Goren (1917-1994), was a former Orthodox Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel. Goren, born "Gorenchik", was born in Zambrow, Poland and immigrated to British administered Palestine with his family in 1925. He served in the Israel Defense Forces during three wars, wrote several award-winning books on Jewish law, and was appointed Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv in 1968. Rabbi Goren served as Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1973- 1983, …
- Lev Leviev
Lev Leviev President Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS Israeli entrepreneur and philanthropist, Lev Leviev was born in the then Soviet city of Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 1956. His father, Rabbi Avner and his mother Chana Leviev were prominent members of the Bukharian Jewish community. At the age of fifteen in 1971 his family emigrated to Israel.
- Hershel Schachter
Rabbi Hershel Schachter (born 1941) is a Rosh Yeshiva at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), Yeshiva University, in New York City. He is a noted Talmudic scholar and a prominent posek for the kashruth division of the Orthodox Union along with Rabbi Yisroel Belsky. At the age of 22, Rabbi Schachter was appointed as an assistant to the renowned Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik. Rabbi Schachter earned his B.A. from Yeshiva College, …
- Jason Biggs
Jason Matthew Biggs (born May 12, 1978) is an American actor who obtained wide fame in 1999 for his role as Jim Levenstein in the "American Pie" series of teen films.
- Robert Aumann
Yisrael Robert John Aumann (born June 8, 1930) is an Israeli mathematician and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He works at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Aumann was awarded the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for "having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis". He shared the prize with Thomas Schelling.
- Moses Montefiore
Sir Moses Haim Montefiore, 1st Baronet (October 24, 1784-July 28, 1885) was one of the most famous British Jews in the 19th century. Montefiore was a financier, stockbroker, philanthropist and also the Sheriff of London.
- David Flusser
David Flusser was the professor of Early Christianity and Judaism of the Second Temple Period at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and a recipient of the national Israel Prize in 1980 for his academic achievements. Lawrence Schiffman, chairman of the Skirball department of Hebrew and Judaic studies at New York University, …
- Moshe Sherer
Rabbi Moshe Sherer was the Chairman of Agudath Israel of America, a Haredi Jewish communal organization in the United States loosely affiliated with the international World Agudath Israel. He was an active presence in the United State's capital for better than half-a-century, advocating the interests and articulating the views of Orthodox Jewry. In 1988 he created the only full-time Orthodox Jewish government affairs office in Washington D.C.
- Esther Jungreis
Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis is the founder of the international Hineni movement in America. A Holocaust survivor, she has made it her life's mission to bring back Jews to Orthodox Judaism.
- Gary Schaer
Gary Schaer (born September 11 1951) is an American Democratic Party politician who serves in the New Jersey General Assembly where he represents the 36th legislative district, having taken office on January 10 2006. Schaer is the first Orthodox Jew in the New Jersey Legislature. Schaer was elected to the Assembly on November 8 2005, and took the seat of Republican Paul DiGaetano, …
- Yissocher Frand
Rabbi Yissocher Frand is an American orthodox rabbi and author. He is a "rosh yeshiva" (senior lecturer) at Ner Yisrael "yeshiva" in Baltimore, MD. Raised in Seattle, Washington he is the brother of Erwin Frand, he attended Ner Yisrael as a student and progressed to become a "maggid shiur" (lecturer). He is currently well known within the Orthodox Jewish community as a skilled orator, and has given hundreds of invited lectures over the past decades.
- Lawrence Schiffman
Lawrence H. Schiffman is the Ethel and Irvin A. Edelman Professor in Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University (NYU). He is a scholar in the field of Dead Sea Scrolls research. His major interests are Dead Sea Scrolls; Jewish religious, political, and social history in late antiquity; the history of Jewish law and Talmudic literature. As an Orthodox Jew, Dr. Schiffman brings an Orthodox perspective to the field of Judaic studies, for example, …
- Baruch Marzel
Baruch Marzel is an American-born Israeli, Orthodox Jew and radical right-wing politician. He lives in the Jewish community of Hebron with his wife and nine children. He is the leader of the Religious Zionism-orientated Jewish National Front party. He claims he was the "right hand man" of Rabbi Meir Kahane, acting as spokesman for the American Rabbi's Kach organization for ten years until it was outlawed in Israel and the US as a terrorist organization.
- Ronald Perelman
Ronald Owen Perelman (born January 1, 1943) is an American billionaire investor that made his fortune buying beleaguered corporations and re-selling them later for enormous profits. Once the richest man in America, he is now tied for 40th place with an estimated wealth of USD$7 billion. He has invested in the grocery, cigar, licorice, makeup, car, photography, television, camping, security, lottery, jewelry, banks, and comic book industries.
- Nechama Leibowitz
Nechama Leibowitz (1905 in Riga, Latvia - 12 April 1997 in Jerusalem) was a noted Israeli biblical scholar and commentator, who rekindled an intense interest in the study of the Bible and its commentaries among Jews everywhere. Leibowitz was born to an Orthodox Jewish family in Riga, two years after her elder brother, the philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz.
- Yishai Fleisher
Yishai Fleisher is program director at Arutz Sheva's Israel National Radio and co-founder of Kumah - American's Return to Zion. 1 Fleisher was born in Haifa, Israel, to Russian Jewish immigrants, and was raised in the United States before embarking on a campaign to promote mass Aliyah that included his own emigration in 2003. Fleisher hosts a daily news talk show on Israel National Radio 2 that deals with Neo-Zionism, …
- Effie Eitam
Efraim (Effie) Eitam (Fein) (b. June 25, 1952), is an Israeli politician. Eitam is a Knesset member, head of the Renewed Religious National Zionist party, and the former leader of the National Religious Party. He serves on the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committees. An orthodox Jew (Hebrew: חזר בתשובה), he wasborn on Kibbutz Ein Gev and received a secular education. When he was old enough, Eitam joined the Israeli Defence Forces.
- Eliyahu Rips
Eliyahu Rips (born 1948) - is an Israeli-Latvian mathematician known for his research in geometric group theory. He achieved public notoriety as a result of coauthoring a paper on the Bible codes. Rips grew up in Latvia (then part of Soviet Union). He was the first high school student from Latvia to participate in the International Mathematical Olympiad.
- Dmitry Salita
Dmitry Salita ("Star of David"; born April 4, 1982) is a Ukrainian-born boxer from New York City in the junior welterweight division. He has a 27-0-1 record, with 15 KOs. He is, and his reach is 69". He is a practicing Orthodox Jew, and does not fight on the Sabbath or Jewish holidays.
- Joseph Gutnick
Joseph Isaac Gutnick (sometimes referred to as Diamond Joe) is an Australian businessman and a well known Jewish philanthropist. He is well known for his leadership of Western Mining Corporation and other resource and mining businesses. He is also an ordained Rabbi. He is a former president of the Melbourne Football Club. He is famous in legal circles for suing Dow Jones, …
- Dov S. Zakheim
Dov S. Zakheim is a former official of the United States government. Zakheim earned his bachelor's degree in government from Columbia University in 1970, and his doctorate in economics and politics at St. Antony's College, Oxford University. He has been an adjunct professor at the National War College, Yeshiva University, Columbia University and Trinity College, where he was presidential scholar.
- Michael Berenbaum
Michael Berenbaum (b. 1945) is an American scholar, professor, writer, and film-maker, who specializes in the study of the memorialization of the Holocaust. He is perhaps most famous for his work as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and as such should be considered the creator of the museum.
- Stuart Pankin
Stuart Pankin (born April 8, 1946) is an American film and television actor. Pankin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended Dickinson College and Columbia University. One of his earliest film appearances was as asthmatic musician/magician Dudley Laywicker in "Hollywood Knights". Pankin played Earl Sinclair in the TV sitcom "Dinosaurs". Pankin was also an anchor on HBO's "Not Necessarily the News" and has appeared in numerous TV commercials.
- Frieda Fromm-Reichmann
Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (October 23, 1889 - 1957) was a German psychiatrist and contemporary of Sigmund Freud who emigrated to America during World War II. She was born to Alfred and Klara Reichmann on 1889 in Karlsruhe, Germany. She was raised in an Orthodox middle-class German Jewish family. She was the eldest daughter in a family of all girls. Because Alfred Reichmann had no son, Frieda was granted privileges other Orthodox Jewish women were not allowed.
- Shlomo Benizri
Shlomo Benizri (born 7 February 1961) is an Israeli politician and member of the Shas party. From 1996-2001, he served as Deputy Health Minister, Health Minister, and Labor and Social Welfare Minister. On March 29, 2006, he was charged by the State Prosecutor's Office with accepting bribes and breaching the public trust. He allegedly accepted favors worth millions of shekels from his friend, contractor Moshe Sela, …
- Effi Eitam
Efraim (Effie) Eitam (Fein) (born 25 June 1952), is an Israeli politician. Eitam is a Knesset member, head of the Renewed Religious National Zionist party, which forms part of the National Union, and the former leader of the National Religious Party. He serves on the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committees. An orthodox Jew, he was born on Kibbutz Ein Gev and received a secular education. When he was old enough, Eitam joined the Israeli Defence Forces.
- Rena Sofer
Rena was born in Arcadia, California. She moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania when her parents divorced. Her father is an orthodox Jewish Rabbi. Her mother teaches psychology. She was discovered at age 15 by a NY talent agent. She appeared on "Another World" (1964)" for a short time and then went to "Loving" (1983/I)", where she played Rockie McKenzie . Her present role as Lois Cerullo Ashton on "Gen ... show all Rena was born in Arcadia, California.
- Mayer Twersky
Rabbi Mayer E. Twersky (b. October 17, 1960) is one of the Roshei Yeshiva at The Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University. His popular lectures emphasize a combination of penetrating conceptual analyses and deep ethical imperatives. Rabbi Twersky hails from the well-known chasidic family of Chernobyl. He is the younger son of Isadore Twersky and is a distant cousin of Rabbi Abraham Twerski. Other cousins include the Grand Rabbis of Chernobyl, …
- Joel B. Wolowelsky
Dr. Joel B. Wolowelsky is Dean of the Faculty at the Yeshivah of Flatbush high school, and an author on topics pertaining to the role of women in Judaism and halakhic medical ethics. He is the Associate Editor of "Tradition, the Journal of Jewish Thought" and of the "Toras HoRav Foundation", which is bringing to print the unpublished works of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. He currently teaches mathematics and ethics at the Yeshivah of Flatbush high school.