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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Sergey Brin

Courtesy of Wikipedia Sergey Brin (August 21, 1973) is an American businessman and computer scientist who co-founded Google with Larry Page. He was the president of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., until stepping down from the role on December 3, 2019. He and Page remain at Alphabet as co-founders, controlling shareholders, and board members. As of June 2024, Brin is […]

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Andrew Garfield

Courtesy of Wikipedia Andrew Garfield (August 20, 1983) is an English and American actor. His accolades include a Tony Award, a BAFTA TV Award and a Golden Globe Award, and nominations for two Academy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Laurence Olivier Award. Time he included Garfield on its list of 100 most influential people in the world in 2022. Click here to read more

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Kyra Sedgwick

Courtesy of Wikipedia Kyra Sedgwick (August 19, 1965) is an American film and television actress. She is best known for her starring role as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on the crime drama The Closer (2005–2012), for which she won a Golden Globe in 2007 and an Emmy Award in 2010. She also starred in the 1992 TV film Miss Rose White, which won

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Andy Samberg

Courtesy of Wikipedia Andy Samberg (August 18, 1978) is an American comedian, actor, and musician. He is a member of the comedy music group the Lonely Island with Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone. Samberg was also a cast member and writer for the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2005 to 2012, where he and his fellow group members are credited with popularizing the SNL Digital

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Norman Coleman

Courtesy of Wikipedia Norman Coleman (August 17, 1949) is an American politician, attorney, and lobbyist. From 2003 to 2009, he served as a United States Senator for Minnesota. From 1994 to 2002, he was mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota. First elected as a member of the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), Coleman became a Republican in 1996. Elected to the Senate in 2002,

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Diego Schwartzman

Courtesy of Wikipedia Diego Schwartzman (August 16, 1992) is an Argentine professional tennis player. He has won four ATP singles titles and reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 8 in October 2020. As a clay court specialist, his best results have been on this surface. He is noted for his high-quality return game. When he reached the quarterfinals of the 2017

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Debra Messing

Courtesy of Wikipedia Debra Messing (August 15, 1968) is an American actress. After graduating from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Messing starred in the television series, Ned and Stacey on Fox (1995–1997), and Prey on ABC (1998). She achieved her breakthrough role as Grace Adler, an interior designer, on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace (1998–2006, 2017–2020), for which she received seven Golden Globe Award nominations and five Primetime

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Mila Kunis

Courtesy of Wikipedia Mila Kunis (August 14, 1983) is an American actress. Born in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, and raised in Los Angeles, she began playing Jackie Burkhart on the Fox television series That ’70s Show (1998–2006) at age 15. She has voiced Meg Griffin on the Fox animated series Family Guy since 1999. Kunis’s breakout film role was in the 2008 romantic comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall.  She

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Pete Sampras

Courtesy of Wikipedia Pete Sampras (August 12, 1971) is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. His professional career began in 1988 and ended at the 2002 US Open, which he won, defeating his longtime rival Andre Agassi in the final. Sampras won 14 major singles titles during his career, a record at the time of his retirement: a then-record seven

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: David Brooks

Courtesy of Wikipedia David Brooks (August 11, 1961) is a Canadian-born American conservative political and cultural commentator who writes for The New York Times. He has worked as a film critic for The Washington Times, a reporter and later op-ed editor for The Wall Street Journal, a senior editor at The Weekly Standard from its inception, and a contributing editor at Newsweek, and The

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Rosanna Arquette

Courtesy of Wikipedia Rosanna Arquette (August 10, 1959) is an American actress. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance in the TV film The Executioner’s Song (1982) and won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for the film Desperately Seeking Susan (1985). Her other film roles include After Hours (also 1985), The Big Blue (1988), Pulp Fiction (1994), and Crash (1996). She also directed

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Michael Kors

Courtesy of Wikipedia Michael Kors (August 9, 1959) is an American fashion designer. He is the chief creative officer of his brand, Michael Kors, which sells men’s and women’s ready-to-wear, accessories, watches, jewelry, footwear, and fragrance. Kors was the first women’s ready-to-wear designer for the French house Celine, from 1997 to 2003. On January 2, 2019, Michael

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