Serge from BabkaThis article on Oscar Zariski, the founder of modern algebraic geometry talks a lot about Jewish culture.
If I still ran JewOfTheDay I'd for sure mention this fellow!
Jew Of the Day✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Wilbur J. Cohen!
Wilbur Joseph Cohen was one of the key figures in the United States that is responsible for the social services that many Americans rely on today. He was one of the key authors of the Medicare, Medicaid, the New Deal and Great Society programs, which shifted US society and culture towards supporting those in need.
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✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Rashida Jones!
Rashida Leah Jones is an actor, writer and producer. Jones has a long filmography that includes hit TV shows such as Boston Public, the Office, Parks and Rec, Angie Tribecca, and #blackAF as well as films including The Social Network, The Muppets (2011). She also co-wrote Toy Story 4
She produced the Netflix documentary "Quincy," about her father. This series won an Emmy for Best Musical Film.
✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Paul Berg!
Paul Berg was a biologist whose experiments helped shape our understanding of DNA, specifically recombinant-DNA- the ability to split DNA and analyse it in parts.
Berg's postdoctoral work was around the conversion of food into simpler molecules used to build up cells. Later, he became the first scientist to splice DNA.
His work in gene splicing is foundational in our ability to do DNA research today, and provided early foundational work for gene therapies, which are now being used to treat some illnesses.
For his achievement in DNA, Berg won several prestigious awards and acknowledgements, including one half the Nobel Prize in 1980, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a position at the American Philosophical Society, and others.
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✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Rollie Hochstein!
Rolaine Abrahams Hochstein was a writer.
Hochstein began her literary career doing copywriting, but quickly moved onto writing. She wrote freelance articles for many publications, including Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Redbook, Ms. Magazine, the Washington Post, the L.A. Times, and the Toronto Star.
In addition, through her work on Seventeen Magazine, she worked with a psychologist to write The Seventeen Guide to Knowing Yourself and The Seventeen Guide to You and Other People, books to help young women understand themselves and their relationships with the world.
She also wrote fiction, including two novels, Stepping Out and Table 47, as well as 40 short stories.
Her work was recognized in an O. Henry Prize collection, and a Pushcart Prize anthology.
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✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Lesley Stahl!
Lesley Rene Stahl is journalist. She's best known for her work on the television program 60 Minutes, where she's been working since 1991.
Stahl began her journalism career joining a local CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) station in the Boston region in 1971. From there she worked as an on air reporter, and eventually moved to national coverage.
In the early 1980s, she began working the US political beat, hosting the public affairs program Face the Nation, and moderating US political debates, before moving to 60 Minutes.
On 60 Minutes, she largely does interviews, including politicians, business-people, controversial newsmakers, and more. She is known for a frank, hard hitting style while still keeping her interviewee at ease.
At age 81 she is still working at 60 Minutes and has no immediate plans to retire.
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✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Jordan Mechner!
Jordan Mechner is a video game developer and filmmaker. His best known work is Prince of Persia.
While attending university, Mechner spent two years writing and developing the game Karateka for the Apple II. Karateka was notable for being both a side scroller and fighting game. It featured fluid character motion and was a success.
Mechner's nexr game, Prince of Persia built on Karateka by making all the action of his character fluid, giving the game a cinematic quality. It also featured a complex storyline, and puzzles- all of which are staples of the action adventure genre today, but novel at the time.
Mechner has since worked to revive Prince as a series, and kept the franchise alive through comics and film adaptations.
He also published his game personal diary development journal of his time developing the game.
#JewOfTheDay #PrinceOfPersia #Karateka #VideoGames #VideoGameDevelopment. #Jewdiverse.
✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Marilyn Monroe!
Marilyn Monroe was an actress, a model, and a singer. She was known as one of the most iconic figures in Hollywood and is considered a sex symbol, both then and today. In addition to her many acting roles, Monroe is known for her business saavy, having eshewed the Hollywood studio monopoly system by creating her own film production company, which not only gave her contract leverage, but signaled to other actors at the time that they have greater power and control in their own contracts.
Monroe's filmography has many notable roles, including Clash By Night, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire, and Some Like It Hot.
Monroe was also a Zionist who had been invited to speak at the United Jewish Appeal, but had to decline after her husband was pressured by the government for possible ties to Communism.
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✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Marvin Minsky!
Marvin Minsky was one of the most important people in the area of computer sceince, and especially AI. It's diffcicult to summarize just how critical Minksy was other than to say he invented head mounted graphical displays (VR Headsets), he built first neural network using special hardware called "perceptrons", which is important not only for AI, but specifically visual AI used in applications such as self-driving cars, as well as the field of analog computing. His AI theory, called "The Society of Mind", is not only useful in exploring concepts of AI, but of all cognitive processes.
Much of Minsky's career was at MIT, where he worked for 58 years. Aside from his work in AI, Minsky is one of the founders of the MIT Media Lab, which itself has contributed to many new advances in human-computer interactions.
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✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Neil Sedaka!
Neil Sedaka is famous singer and musician. He has written, or co-written over 500 songs. His most successful decades were the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, though he's continues to write and perform to this day, including online mini-concerts during the COVID lockdown.
He has had many hits in his career, including Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen, Breaking Up is Hard To Do, Love Will Keep Us Together, Love in the Shadows, Crying My Heart Out for You, and Oh! Carol.
Mr. Sedeka has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, is in the Songwriters Hall of Game, as well as lesser known honors such as being in the Long Island Music Hall andan Art Gilmore Career Achievement Award.
His website is https://neilsedaka.com
Fun Fact: Neil's mother was Ashkenazi of Russian and Polish heritage and his father was Sephardi with his own parents being from Turkey.