Jewish Actors
Expelliarmus!
This actor's Jewish mother was born in South Africa before moving to the UK. He started acting at age 10, and two years later he starred as Harry Potter in JK Rowling's films.
Daniel Radcliffe
Raised in Midwood, Brooklyn, he became known as the curmudgeon senator from VT.
Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen helped run his 2020 presidential campaign.
Bernie Sanders
This mensch sat on the bench.
He's the pitcher for the LA Dodgers who refused to play in the World Series on Yom Kippur.
Sandy Koufax
E=mc2
Albert Einstein
This young programming prodigy brought the social network Facebook into the world.
Mark Zuckerberg
This House of Rock star was also the voice of Po in Kung Fu Panda.
Jack Black
In 1774, Francis Salvador was elected to the First Provincial Congress of this southeast colony, becoming "the first Jew in America to represent the masses in a popular assembly."
What a shanda, he was killed in the American Revolution.
South Carolina
14 out of 30 teams in this professional sporting league have Jewish principal owners. Even the commissioner, Adam Silver, is a member of the tribe.
NBA
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In 1837, he created the world's first electromagnetic telegraph device. And in 1838, he invented a telegraph code bearing his name.
Samuel Morse
Larry Page and Sergey Brin co-founded this company, the largest, most popular search engine on the Internet.
His last name means "lark" in Hebrew.
He became known for his portrayal of Troy Bolton in High School Musical, and later played Link Larken in the musical comedy Hairspray.
Zach Efron
He is our country's Secretary of State.
He also plays guitar and has three songs available on Spotify under the alias Ablinken (pronounced "Abe Lincoln").
Antony Blinken
When Amare Stoudemire discovered he had Jewish roots in 2010, he placed a tattoo of this on his right hand.
Fun facts: He lived in Newburgh, NY for 5 months in 1994.
Star of David
Entrepreneur Dov Moran, who invented the USB flash drive, was born in this country.
Israel
Burt Baskin and Irv Robbins created this sweet company in 1945
Baskin Robbins
She had a bat mitzvah.
And she was Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Jews are kvellin' about our Secretary of the Treasury.
Janet Yellen
Jacob Steinmetz, a 19 year old pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks, is recognized as the first practicing player of this Jewish denomination to be selected in the MLB draft.
Orthodox
Vera Rubin was the astronomer who discovered _______, a material which scientists cannot directly observe. As a matter of fact, it makes up 27% of the universe.
Dark matter
Bros Henry & Helal Hassenfeld created this toy company in 1923
Hasbro
Mazel tov!
She married Ryan Reynolds in 2008.
She later married Colin Jost in 2020.
Scarlett Johansson
Barack Obama nominated him to the Supreme Court in 2016 to fill Scalia's seat. He's now our Attorney General.
He is also partially colorblind, and he uses a list to match his suits and ties.
Merrick Garland
Olé! Aly Raisman was captain of the US women's Olympic gymnastics team for the 2012 Olympic games in London, as well as for the 2016 Olympic games in this city.
Rio de Janeiro
Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958) took the first x-ray structure pictures of DNA crystals which were the basis for the DNA double-helix model - credited to these two scientists.
Watson and Crick
Harry, Albert, Sam & Jack Warner left Russia in 1889 and later created this moving picture company in Burbank, CA.
Warner Brothers