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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Murray Gell-Mann

Courtesy of Wikipedia Murray Gell-Mann (September 15, 1929 – May 24, 2019) was an American theoretical physicist who played a preeminent role in the development of the theory of elementary particles. Gell-Mann introduced the concept of quarks as the fundamental building blocks of the strongly interacting particles, and the renormalization group as a foundational element of quantum field theory and statistical mechanics. He played key roles […]

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Amy Winehouse

Courtesy of Wikipedia Amy Winehouse (September 14, 1983 – July 23, 2011) was a British singer and songwriter known for her deep, expressive contralto vocals and her eclectic mix of musical genres, including soul, rhythm and blues, reggae, and jazz. Winehouse was a member of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra in her youth, signing to Simon Fuller’s 19 Management in 2002 and soon recording a

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Mel Torme

Courtesy of Wikipedia Melvin Tormé (September 13, 1925 – June 5, 1999), nicknamed “the Velvet Fog“, was an American musician, singer, composer, arranger, drummer, actor, and author. He composed the music for “The Christmas Song” (“Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire”) and co-wrote the lyrics with Bob Wells. Tormé won two Grammy Awards and was nominated a total of

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Emmy Rossum

Courtesy of Wikipedia Emmy Rossum (September 12, 1986) is an American actress, director, producer, singer, and songwriter. The accolades she has received include a Saturn Award and Critics’ Choice Movie Award, alongside nominations for a Golden Globe Award, an Independent Spirit Award, and two Critics’ Choice Television Awards. Born and raised in New York City, she began professionally performing as

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Harry Connick Jr.

Courtesy of Wikipedia Harry Connick Jr. (September 11, 1967) is an American singer, pianist, composer, actor, and former television host. As of 2019, he has sold over 30 million records worldwide. Connick is ranked among the top 60 best-selling male artists in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America, with 16 million in certified sales. He has had seven top 20

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Jared Diamond

Courtesy of Wikipedia Jared Diamond (September 10, 1937) is an American scientist, historian, and author. In 1985 he received a MacArthur Genius Grant, and he has written hundreds of scientific and popular articles and books. His best known is Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997), which received multiple awards including the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction. In 2005, Diamond was ranked ninth

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Adam Sandler

Courtesy of Wikipedia Adam Sandler (September 9, 1966) is an American actor, film producer and comedian. Primarily a comedic leading actor in films, his accolades include nominations for three Grammy Awards, five Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2023, Sandler was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Sandler was a cast member on

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Pink

Courtesy of Wikipedia Alecia Beth Hart Moore (September 8, 1979), known professionally as Pink (stylized as P!nk), is an American singer and songwriter. She is known for her rock-influenced pop songs and powerful voice. At 15, Pink formed the short-lived girl group Choice, who signed with LaFace Records in 1995, although they disbanded without any major releases. Her first

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Drew Weissman

Courtesy of Wikipedia Drew Weissman (September 7, 1959) is an American physician and immunologist known for his contributions to RNA biology. Weissman is the inaugural Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research, director of the Penn Institute for RNA Innovation, and professor of medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). Weissman’s work underlies the development

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Billy Rose

Courtesy of Wikipedia Billy Rose (September 6, 1899 – February 10, 1966) was an American impresario, theatrical showman, lyricist and columnist. For years both before and after World War II, Billy Rose was a major force in entertainment, with shows such as Billy Rose’s Crazy Quilt (1931), Jumbo (1935), Billy Rose’s Aquacade (1937), and Carmen Jones (1943). As a lyricist, he is credited with many songs, notably “Don’t Bring Lulu”

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Amnon Rubinstein

Courtesy of Wikipedia Amnon Rubinstein (September 5, 1931 – January 18, 2024) was an Israeli legal scholar, politician, and recipient of the Israel Prize (2006) and Cheshin Prize (2010). A member of the Knesset between 1977 and 2002, he served in several ministerial positions. Later, he was dean of the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya and a patron of Liberal International.

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Mark Ronson

Courtesy of Wikipedia Mark Ronson (September 4, 1975) is a British-American musician, DJ, and producer. He has won eight Grammy Awards, including Producer of the Year for Amy Winehouse’s album Back to Black (2006), as well as two for Record of the Year with her 2006 single “Rehab” and his own 2014 single “Uptown Funk” (featuring Bruno Mars). He has also won an Academy

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Kitty Carlisle

Courtesy of Wikipedia Kitty Carlisle (September 3, 1910 – April 17, 2007) was an American stage and screen actress, opera singer, television personality and spokesperson for the arts. She was the leading lady in the Marx Brothers movie A Night at the Opera (1935) and was a regular panelist on the television game show To Tell the Truth (1956–1978). She served 20 years on

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Arthur Ashkin

Courtesy of Wikipedia Arthur Ashkin (September 2, 1922 – September 21, 2020) was an American scientist and Nobel laureate who worked at Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies. Ashkin has been considered by many as the father of optical tweezers, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 at age 96, becoming the oldest Nobel laureate until 2019 when John

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