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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Olivia Newton-John

Courtesy of Wikipedia Olivia Newton-John (September 26, 1948 – August 8, 2022) was a British and Australian singer and actress. She was a four-time Grammy Award winner whose music career included fifteen top-ten singles, including five number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and two number-one albums on the Billboard 200: If You Love Me, Let Me Know (1974) and Have You Never Been […]

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Barbara Walters

Courtesy of Wikipedia Barbara Walters (September 25, 1929 – December 30, 2022) was an American broadcast journalist and television personality. Known for her interviewing ability and popularity with viewers, she appeared as a host of numerous television programs, including Today, the ABC Evening News, 20/20, and The View. Walters was a working journalist from 1951 until her retirement in 2015. Walters was inducted into

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Ben Platt

Courtesy of Wikipedia Benjamin Platt (September 24, 1993) is an American actor and singer. The son of film and theater producer Marc Platt and philanthropist Julie Platt, he began his acting career in musical theater as a child and appeared in productions of The Sound of Music (2006) and The Book of Mormon (2012–2015), rising to prominence for originating the title role in the Broadway coming-of-age musical Dear Evan Hansen (2015–2017). His performance

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Jason Alexander

Courtesy of Wikipedia Jason Alexander (September 23, 1959), is an American actor and comedian. Over the course of his career he has received an Emmy Award and a Tony Award as well as nominations for four Golden Globe Awards. He gained stardom for his role as George Costanza in the NBC sitcom Seinfeld (1989–1998), for which he won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Isaac Herzog

Courtesy of Wikipedia Isaac Herzog (September 22, 1960) is an Israeli politician who has been serving since 2021 as the 11th president of Israel. He is the first president to be born in Israel after its Declaration of Independence. Son of former Israeli president Chaim Herzog, he is a lawyer by profession and had served as Government Secretary from

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Mark Levin

Courtesy of Wikipedia Mark Levin (September 21, 1957) is an American broadcast news analyst, columnist, lawyer, political commentator, radio personality, and writer. He is the host of syndicated radio show The Mark Levin Show, as well as Life, Liberty & Levin on Fox News. Levin worked in the administration of President Ronald Reagan and was a chief of staff for Attorney General Edwin Meese. He is

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Dudu Topaz

Courtesy of Wikipedia Dudu Topaz (September 20, 1946 – August 20, 2009) was an Israeli TV personality, comedian, actor, screenwriter, playwright, author and radio and television host. In August 2009 he died by suicide while incarcerated, having been criminally charged with conspiring violence against prominent media figures in Israel. Click here to read more of the Wikipedia article. Tomorrow, September 21: Mark

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: David Bromberg

Courtesy of Wikipedia David Bromberg (September 19, 1945) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter. An eclectic artist, Bromberg plays bluegrass, blues, folk, jazz, country and western, and rock and roll. He is known for his quirky, humorous lyrics, and the ability to play rhythm and lead guitar at the same time. Bromberg has played with many famous musicians, including Jerry Jeff

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Joshua Angrist

Courtesy of Wikipedia Joshua Angrist (September 18, 1960) is an Israeli–American economist and Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Angrist, together with Guido Imbens, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2021 “for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships”. He ranks among the world’s top economists in labor economics, urban economics, econometrics, and the economics

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Rita Rudner

Courtesy of Wikipedia Rita Rudner (September 17, 1953) is an American comedian. Beginning her career as a Broadway dancer, Rudner noticed the lack of female comedians in New York City and turned to stand-up comedy, where she has performed for over three decades. Her performance on a variety of HBO specials and numerous appearances on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson,

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: David Copperfield

Courtesy of Wikipedia David Copperfield (September 16, 1956), is an American magician, described by Forbes as the most commercially successful magician in history. Copperfield’s television specials have been nominated for 38 Emmy Awards, winning 21. Known for his combination of storytelling and illusion, his performance, in a career spanning more than 40 years, has earned 11 Guinness World

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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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