ok so in my english class my teacher is making us do an essay about a jewish person who is famour and means something to judiasm like golda mier or steven spilberg.... so is thier any other famous person other then thoses 2 that i can do it on ?
2007-02-12 14:55:36 · 12 answers · asked by Padfoot 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
And we also have to write why we would want to meet them
2007-02-12 14:59:36 · update #1
anne frank
albert einstien
woody allen
Cary Grant -- Classical good looks and humor
Alicia Silverstone -- Actress - Clueless, The Crush, The Babysitter, Batman
Mandy Patinkin -- Emmy & Tony award-winning actor, 'Dr Jeffrey Geiger' on TV's Chicago Hope
Harrison Ford -- Actor: 'Raiders of the Lost Ark', 'Star Wars', ' American Graffiti', 'Witness', 'The Fugitive'
Gwyneth Paltrow -- Oscar winner
William Shatner -- Captain James T. Kirk on the original 'Star Trek'
Natalie Portman -- Actress, Queen Amidala in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
Al Jolson -- famous entertainer. Starred in the first talking movie
Winona Ryder -- Star of films like Heathers, Girl Interrupted, Little Women, Beetlejuice
Noah Wyle -- Actor, 'Dr John Carter' on TV's ER
Michael Landon -- Little Joe Cartwright on Bonanza
Mark Frankel -- Actor in 'Sisters' and 'Fortune Hunter'
Sarah Jessica Parker -- Acress in 'Sex and the City', 'LA Story'
Seth Green -- televison actor, Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, Family Guy.
Robert Downey, Jr. -- actor in 'Less Than Zero,' 'Chaplin,' 'Short Cuts.'
Paul Newman -- Academy Award winning actor and philanthropist
Musicians:
Itzhak Perlman -- Grammy-winning Violin soloist
Max Weinberg -- Drummer for Springstein and musical director for Conan O'Brien
Isaac Stern -- Violin virtuoso
Jascha Heifetz -- Violinist
Yehudi Menuhin -- Violinist
Herb Alpert -- Leader and trumpeter of Tijuana Brass
Stan Getz -- Jazz Tenor Sax player most famous for The Girl from Ipanema
Scientists:
Albert Einstein -- One of the most famous and influential scientists since Isaac Newton
Carl Sagan -- astronomer and popular science author; made book and TV series 'Cosmos'
Niels Bohr -- Nobel prize-winning Physicist: atomic structure
Roald Hoffmann -- Nobel prize winner in Chemistry: field of electronic structures
Fritz Haber -- winner of the Nobel Prize of Chemistry in 1918, for the synthesis of ammonia from its elements
Edward Teller -- Physicist, father of the hydrogen bomb
Leo Szilard -- Physicist, proved the possiblily of a nuclear chain reaction in 1933.
Jonas Salk -- Developed the first polio vaccine.
Carl Sagan -- astronomer and popular science author; made book and TV series 'Cosmos'
Business Professionals:
Milton Hershey -- Hershey's Chocolate founder
Michael Dell -- Founder of Dell Computer
Larry Ellison -- Founder and CEO of Oracle
Alan Greenspan -- Federal Reserve Chairman under Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush
Steve Ballmer -- CEO of Microsoft and the richest Jew in the world
Sir James Goldsmith -- financier and banker who amongst others has taken over Goodyear.
George Soros -- millionaire philanthropist who has donated millions to aid Eastern Europe.
Fashion designers:
Calvin Klein -- Famous Clothes Designer
Ralph Lauren -- (Ralph Lipshitz) world famous fashion designer
Levi Strauss -- Inventor of Blue Jeans
Kenneth Cole -- Fashion Designer who's married to Mario Cuomo's daughter
Comedians:
Jerry Lewis -- A comedian who teamed up with Dean Martin
Marcel Marceau -- The most famous mime in history
Jerry Seinfeld -- Stand up comedia, TV show Seinfeld, American Express commercials
Milton Berle -- Comedian who pioneered comedy/variety on television
Jack Benny -- Reknowned radio and TV comic
Directors and producers:
Steven Spielberg -- Director of films such as Saving Private Ryan & Schindler's List, Jurassic Park, E.T.,
Stanley Kubrick -- Director of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Spartacus
Mel Brooks -- Film director, producer, actor: Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein
Woody Allen -- Film Maker/Actor: Annie Hall, Bullets Over Broadway, Mighty Aphrodite, Antz
Roman Polanski -- Director, screenwriter, actor: Rosemary's Baby, Macbeth, Chinatown, Tess
Ben Stiller -- Director/Actor: Seinfeld, SNL, Reality Bites, Something About Mary, The Cable Guy
Aaron Spelling -- Produced Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place...
Oliver Stone -- Popular Director: The Doors, J.F.K., Heaven And Earth, Natural Born Killers
Artists:
Frida Kahlo -- Mexican artist famous for vivid, surrealist self-portraits. Married to Diego Rivera.
Marc Chagall -- Painter, designer and graphic artist
Modigliani -- Artist whose elongated faces are reminiscent of African masks
Camille Pissarro -- Father of Impressionism
2007-02-12 15:00:26 · answer #1 · answered by Secondstar_rite 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Does this person have to be alive?
If not, I would suggest Daniel Mendoza, 1764-1836.
Virtually the founder of scientific boxing.
Came from a poor family. Never hid his ethnicity: billed himself as Mendoza the Jew. Developed a sport that had just been brawling before. "In height about five feet seven inches, with a well-formed chest, strong arms, great courage, and good wind, Mendoza always contrived that his battles should be well contested. His advent was a new feature in the practice of boxing, and his style caused much discussion. There was more neatness than strength in his manner, his blows were deficient in force but given with astonishing quickness, and he struck oftener and stopped more dexterously than any other pugilist." The Champion in the late eighteenth-early nineteenth century - bare knuckles and an unlimited number of rounds. Gave young Jews in the slums something to be proud of.
And he's DIFFERENT from all those other intellectuals and businessmen type guys.
2007-02-12 18:40:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Lovely quotation. Brought tears to my eyes. Ben, you should be saying "was like that." Because now we say "Never Again" and the words are backed by action. Maybe the peace movement has issues of appeasement they don't recognize a threat or what to do about it but not everyone is like that that was older era. Israel is so strong now that she can defend herself and the diaspora against attacks and since the establishment of Israel America has been by her side. Thank G-d people have evolved from what it was like to live back then.
2016-03-29 04:18:11 · answer #3 · answered by Karen 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Benjamin Harrison Freedman
2007-02-13 11:25:37 · answer #4 · answered by answer man 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Reva P is right even though ome moron thumbed her down. If u want someone who means something to Judaism it can only be a great Rabbi. You can go to a library and look it up or use the internet I can give you 2 great names but you must research them on your own. Elijah (Eliyahu) ben Shlomo Zalman known as-Gaon of Vilna, Gaon mi Vilno, or Vilna Gaon, and Moses Maimonides known as Maimonides or Rambam. WIKIPEDIA has nice write ups on both. That should get you started.
2007-02-12 18:00:07 · answer #5 · answered by VoodooIS Doodoo23 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Steven Spielberg doesn't mean much of anything to Judaism. To Hollywood, yes, but not to Judaism.
Considering the importance to whole huge groups of peoples of the first of his client groups, Brian Epstein. But again, his importance is to other groups.
Golda Meir's importance was to the State of Israel, not to the biblical concept of the Land of Israel. The same is true of all of the founders of the modern State of Israel.
Your question went on to state "means something to judaism". None of the names given to you by FressPrincess qualify.
You're going to have to go much farther back in history, AND you should be doing so at your local public library.
2007-02-12 15:25:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Moses
2007-02-12 17:02:05 · answer #7 · answered by q8abat 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Albert Einstein -- The most famous and influential scientist of all time
2007-02-12 15:09:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why do you have to do a Jewish person? That sounds kind of racist. Does't your teacher know that Jews aren't the only ones who have done great things? I thought schools weren't allowed to preach religion.
2007-02-12 15:04:17 · answer #9 · answered by Venin_Noir 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Wikpedia strikes again.
2007-02-12 15:21:30 · answer #10 · answered by bigjohn B 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋