Yaakov

male, 83 years old
Yaakov (Jacob) Birnbaum (10 December 1926 -) is the founder of Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ) and many other human rights organizations....
Raphael Patai

Raphael Patai

male, deceased (1996)
Raphael Patai (1910-1996) was a Hungarian-Jewish ethnographer and anthropologist whose life spanned most of the twentieth century. He was born...

Samuel Untermyer

male, deceased (1940)
Samuel Untermyer (March 6,1858- March 16, 1940), also known as Samuel Untermeyer was an American lawyer and civic leader as well as a self-made...
Leon Pinsker

Leon Pinsker

male, deceased (1891)
Leon Pinsker (1821-1891) was a physician, a Zionist pioneer and activist, and the founder and leader of the Hovevei Zion (Lovers of Zion) movement....
Judith Butler

Judith Butler

female, 53 years old
Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American post-structuralist philosopher who has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory,...
Richard John Neuhaus

Richard John Neuhaus

male
Richard John Neuhaus (born May 21, 1936) is a prominent Canadian Catholic priest and writer in the United States. He is the founder and editor of...
Avishai Raviv

Avishai Raviv

male
Avishai Raviv was a member of Israel's Shin Bet or Shabak, Israel's Secret Police, as part of the Shabak Jewish Section, a controversial section of...
Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

male, deceased (1970)
Shmuel Yosef Agnon. One of the central figures in modern Hebrew fiction, Agnon was born in Galicia, later immigrated as a Zionist to Ottoman...
Michael Kleiner

Michael Kleiner

male, 61 years old
Michael Kleiner is an Israeli politician and leader of Herut – The National Movement. He first entered the Knesset in 1981 as a Likud pa...
Yoav Gelber

Yoav Gelber

male, 66 years old
Yoav Gelber is a professor at the University of Haifa. He was born in Palestine in 1943, he studied world and Jewish history in the Hebrew...