Ed Jew

Ed Jew

male
Edmund "Ed" Jew is a third generation San Franciscan and a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors representing District 4, which...
Berel Wein

Berel Wein

male
Rabbi Berel Wein,the founder and director of The Destiny Foundation since 1996, has, for over 25 years, been identified with the popularization of...
Menachem Begin

Menachem Begin

male, deceased (1992) (Israel)
"'"' (August 16, 1913 – March 9, 1992) was a Polish-Jewish head of the Zionist underground group the Irgun, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the fi...
Golda Meir

Golda Meir

female, deceased (1978) (Israel)
Golda Meir (born Golda Mabovitz on 3 May 1898, died December 8, 1978, also known as Golda Myerson from 1917-1956), was one of the founders of the...
Roman Polanski

Roman Polanski

male, 76 years old
Roman Polanski (born August 18, 1933) is a film director, writer, actor and producer. After beginning his career in Poland, he became a celebrated...
Norman Geras

Norman Geras

male, 66 years old
In its first two issues Democratiya has carried some of the most thoughtful and serious voices on the threat of terrorism. I welcome Democratiya's...
Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt

female, deceased (1975)
Hannah Arendt was a German Jewish political theorist. She has often been described as a philosopher, although she always refused that label on the...
Abraham Foxman

Abraham Foxman

male, 69 years old
Abraham Henry Foxman (born 1940) is the current National Director and chairman of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith.
Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

male, deceased (1924) (New York, United States)
What will be my fate as a writer is very simple. My talent for portraying my dreamlike inner life has thrust all matters into the background; my...
Yitzhak Shamir

Yitzhak Shamir

male, 94 years old (Israel)
Shamir first described a meeting he had recently had with a Vermont-based psychoanalyst, the nephew of Israel's first Prime Minister, David...