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Who is James Pulitzer?
In 1898 this Jewish publisher’s newspaper published sensational newspaper headlines and stories fueling outrage over the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana, Cuba. Awards in his name are given each year recognizing literary merit.
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What is the Statue of Liberty?
In 1903 Jewish poet Emma Lazarus wrote a poem called “the New Colossus” which has the line “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” which line is mounted on a plaque at this monument in New York Harbor?
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Who are Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein?
These two Jewish women made history in 1992 when, for the first time, any State was represented by these two women in the U.S. Senate.
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Who is Sigmund Freud?
In the early 1900’s this well-known Austrian neurologist founded the practice of psychoanalysis.
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What is Alpha Epsilon Pi?
Mark Zukerberg, became the youngest billionaire of all time in 2008 at the age of 23 when he founded Facebook while a member of this Jewish fraternity at Harvard University. Also, Matthew (UCI) and Andrew (UCLA).
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Who is Felicity Jones?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg had a brilliant legal mind and was featured in the 2018 film “On the Basis of Sex” in which she was played by this shiksa actress.
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Who is Monica Lewinsky?
In 1997, this young Jewish woman performed oral sex in the Oval Office on the then-president of the United States.
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What are Hebrew National hotdogs?
Theodore Krainin was a Jewish sausage maker who opened this sausage factory in 1904 with one of the best-known slogans in modern advertising: “We answer to a higher authority.”
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What is "Bugsy"?
In this 1991 crime drama showing the development of Law Vegas by building the Flamingo Hotel, Jewish mobster Bugsy Siegel is played by Academy Award winning non-Jewish actor Warren Beatty.
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Who is Jonas Salk?
This Jewish man carried out a national study to test his polio vaccine, which was approved a year later. Within 25 years, polio was essentially wiped out in the U.S.
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What is E=mc squared
Albert Einstein was a Jewish theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity represented by this well-known equation.
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What is Summerlin, NV (about 2 miles from my house)
OJ Simpson was not a jew, but he did kill Ron Goldman who was a Jew. At the time of his death in 2024, this is the neighborhood where OJ Simpson lived.
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What is Times Square?
Adolph Ochs was the Jewish publisher of a newspaper that built a building at this intersection of 42nd Street and Broadway in New York City which was, in 1904, renamed after his newspaper.
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Who is Superman?
Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were two Jewish men that met in Cleveland and developed this first comic book superhero who appeared in Action Comics and became a cultural icon.
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What is Scotland?
Dire Straits guitarist Mark Knopfler, comedian Ronni Ancona, sculptor Benno Schotz, and film director Kevin MacDonald are the best-known jews hailing from this country in Northern Europe which has been anemic at producing famous jews.
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