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Daily Archives: September 18, 2022

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‘Cinema Sabaya’ Wins Top Ophir Award, Will Represent Israel at the 2023 Oscars

ARTSBy Lenny GiteckSeptember 18, 2022

The film Cinema Sabaya — from director Orit Fouks Rotem — is about a video workshop for female Arab and Jewish municipal workers. It recently won Best Picture at the Ophir Awards (commonly known as the Israeli Oscars), the prizes of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television. As a result, Cinema Sabaya will be…

‘Israel Culture Week’ Held in the Capital City Tirana, Albania, a Muslin-Majority Country

CULTUREBy Lenny GiteckSeptember 18, 2022

Even though Albania is a Muslin-majority country, it and the Jewish state have had surprisingly good relations. (Albania is the only European nation that had more Jews at the end of World War II than at the beginning. We recommend reading the Wikipedia article linked below.) Last month, the Israeli embassy in Tirana, the Albanian…

| Idan Raichel and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Make Beautiful Music Together

MUSICBy Lenny GiteckSeptember 18, 2022

Idan Raichel is an Israeli singer-songwriter and musician known for his Idan Raichel Project…

The Israel Museum: Country’s Largest and Foremost Cultural Institution

UncategorizedBy Lenny GiteckSeptember 18, 2022

“Its holdings include the world’s most comprehensive collections of the archaeology of the…

Joint Israel-Jordan Industrial Zone, First Considered in 1994, to Move Forward

UncategorizedBy Lenny GiteckSeptember 18, 2022

Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Jordanian King Abdullah II finalized the plans during a visit to Amman by the Israeli leader…

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Find out more about Max Nordau from My Jewish Learning by clicking here.

FUN QUIZ ANSWERS

 

  1. 1. Jerusalem’s emblem has a lion, a wall (like the city walls and the Western Wall), and an olive branch. What does the lion represent?
    a. Lion of Judah

    2.  

  2. 2. How many active archeological sites are Jerusalem? More than…
    d. 2,000

    3.  

  3. 3. Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives is the oldest active burial site in the world and is home to more than _____ Jewish graves.
    b. 150,000

    4.  

  4. 4. How many Christian churches are there in Jerusalem?
    b. 50

    5.  

  5. 5. Guests at Jerusalem’s King David Hotel have included Elizabeth Taylor, Winston Churchill, Prince Charles (now King Charles), Hillary Clinton, and Madonna.
    a. True

    6.  

  6. 6. Jerusalem’s fabulous (and frenetic!), enormous, partially covered market packs in locals and tourists with its array of food, color, and noise. What is the market called?
    a. Mahaneh Yehuda

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WOW! FACTS

Inventor of the mobile phone, “Father of the Internet,” inventor of the video game cosole, inventor fo the laser, inventor of the gramophone, creator of the Barbie Doll, creator of the cruise ship, “Father of Immunology,” inventor fo the modern condom (!), a prime minister of the U.K., a three-time prime minister of France, a president of Switzerland and the primary financier of the American Revolution?

We knew you could guess… all of them are (or were) Jews!

To learn about these and many more AmazingJews, watch a compilation put together by JewOfTheWeek.net in 2015 and posted on YouTube. >>
 

Nobel Prizes
Although Jews are less than two-tenths of one percent of the world’s population, more than 20% of Nobel Prize winners have been Jewish. Source: Google

Polio Vaccine
Millions and millions of people worldwide have been spared the ravages of poliomyelitis — including paralysis and even death — thanks to research conducted by Jewish scientist Dr. Jonas Salk and his team. The Salk vaccine entered widespread use in the U.S. in 1955. Source: Wikipedia

Miss Liberty
The words “…give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…” on the Statue of Liberty were written by Emma Lazarus, a Jew. Source: BuzzFeed

Blue Jeans
Levi Strauss, an immigrant from Germany, invented his blue jeans in 1873. Source: BuzzFeed

Start-Up Nation
Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship in the world. It has the highest rate of entrepreneurship among women and people over 55 in the world. Source: BuzzFeed

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