Jewish History
He was the first prime minister of Israel.
Who is David Ben Gurion?
Born Josephine Ester Mentzer, born to Hungarian Jewish immigrants in Queens, NY, in 1908. She launched her cosmetics empire in 1946 and created beauty products for Clinique, Artemis and her name sake line.
Who is Estee Lauder?
Which Jewish philosopher wrote the 13 articles of Jewish faith?
Who is Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon? (aka Rambam/Maimonides)
He was known as a “Tummler” in the BB and became a famous comedian and comedy writer.
Who is Mel Brooks?
1950 National Jewish Book Award winner “The Wall” by John Hersey describes the escape of 400,000 Jews from the Ghetto in this Capital city.
What is Warsaw?
This is the date of Israeli Independence. (Month, day, year)
What is May 14, 1948?
This Jewish girl from Queens, NY started a nail polish empire in 1981. Ballet Slippers” is one of her most famous colors worn by women to this day.
Who is Essie Weingarten?
What book is considered the most important text for Jewish ethics?
What is Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers)?
They were a BB favorite husband and wife singing duo.
Who were Steve Lawrence and Edie Gorme?
He was the founder of Hasidism.
Who is the Baal Shem Tov?
He was the first Jewish Justice of the Supreme Court.
Who is Louis Brandeis?
Credited with revolutionizing the beauty industry with “natural looks” in the 1980’s, this Jewish girl from the suburbs of Illinois sold her company for $75 million dollars to Estee Lauder in 1995.
Who is Bobby Brown?
Name this Jewish American memoirist whose book “Inheritance” described her Catholic parents?
Who is Dani Shapiro?
This Hotel was famous for its Labor Day Singles’ weekend.
What is The Concord?
Born Augusta Gittel, this Polish girl launched a vast beauty empire in 1915 in NYC. Her famous saying was……”There are no ugly women, only lazy ones”.
Who is Helena Rubinstein?
He was the founder of modern Zionism.
Who is Theodore Herzl?
This Polish born Jewish immigrant revolutionized the makeup industry in America and in Hollywood by inventing platinum blonde hair, lip gloss, pancake make-up & popularizing the term “makeup” in the 1920’s & 1930’s.
Who is Max Factor?
This Social Media commentator and Israeli author became well known after October 7th for her passionate defense of the Jewish state.
Who is Noah Tishby?
Her hotel recipes and her rye bread made her famous.
Who was Jennie Grossinger?
1950 National Jewish Book Award winner “The Wall” by John Hersey describes the escape of 400,000 Jews from the Ghetto in this Capital city
What is Warsaw?
He revived Hebrew as a modern language.
Who is Eliezer Ben Yehuda?
These 2 brothers founded Revlon in1932 , a major American cosmetics company, still in existence today.
Who are Charles & Joseph Revson?
A towering story of biblical proportions, this author’s “Exodus” won awards in 1959.
Who is Leon Uris?
This famous singer married the owners daughter of the Esther Manor
Who is Neil Sedaka?
This Seinfeld character is unemployed and lives with his parents.
Who is George Costanza?