#jewoftheday — Public Fediverse posts

✡️ 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.

#JewOfTheDay #Medicare #Medicaid #NewDeal #GreatSociety #USHistory #SocialServices #Welfare #Jewdiverse

✡️ 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.

#JewOfTheDay #RashidaJones #Quincy #BlackJews #Jewdiverse

✡️ 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.

#JewOfTheDay #scientist #DNA #biology #GeneSplicing #NobelPrize #Jewdiverse

✡️ 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 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.

#JewOfTheDay #MIT #ComputerScience #AI #VR #MarvinMinsky #Jewdiverse

✡️ 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.

#JewOfTheDay #MIT #ComputerScience #AI #VR #MarvinMinsky #Jewdiverse

✡️ 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.

#JewOfTheDay #MIT #ComputerScience #AI #VR #MarvinMinsky #Jewdiverse

✡️ 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.

#JewOfTheDay #MIT #ComputerScience #AI #VR #MarvinMinsky #Jewdiverse

✡️ 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.

#JewOfTheDay #MIT #ComputerScience #AI #VR #MarvinMinsky #Jewdiverse

✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Susan Solomon!

Susan Solomon is a climate scientist notable for being the first scientist to identify chlorofluorocarbons as a major contributor to the hole in the ozone layer. During the 1980s, Solomon's research and expeditions showed elevated levels of chlorofluorocarbons in the atmosphere, and the mechanism by which they could be degrading the Ozone layer, an atmospheric barrier that protects the earth from solar radiation.

Her work directly lead to the UN Montreal Protocols, a plan to save the atmosphere through reduction in harmful chemical generation. This has largely been a success and the ozone layer is healing.

Solomon's work has been recognized as crucial by many institutions and she's been granted awards by including the National Metal of Science, the French Metal of Science, the UK Royal Society, the National Women's Hall of Fame, and Time Magazine, amongst others.

#JewOfTheDay #Scientist #ClimateChange #OzoneLayer #MontrealProtocol #JewDiverse

✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Leon L. Lewis!

Leon Lawrence Lewis was a lawyer, Nazi hunter, and activist for American Jews. Nazis called him "the most dangerous Jew in Los Angeles."

After graduating law school, Lewis accepted the position as the first national secretary of the Anti-Defmation League where he worked to prosecute hate crimes against Jews before enlisting in WW1. After the war, Lewis continued to fight antisemitism. Eventually he moved to Los Angeles and founded what would later be called the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles, Community Relations Committee, where he launched a major spy ring to identify Nazi activities, starting in the late 1920s. He continued this work for the next twenty years. His work was directly responsible for thwarting Nazi plots and bringing Nazis to justice.

#JewOfTheDay #ADL #JewishLA #NaziHunter #antisemitism #Jewdiverse

✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is David Dubinsky!

David Isaac Dubinsky was a labor leader and politician who founded the Congress of International Organizations (CIO), and took part in the formation of the American Labor Party as well as the Liberal Party of New York.

In 1906, Dubinsky escaped a Siberian prison sentence for labor activities in Russia and escaped to New York City.

When in NYC, he eventually became a garment worker and joined the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU). He became the local chapter president a year later, and rose in the ranks to leadership within the decade.

He went on to co-found the CIO and his involvement with the ILGWU and the CIO lead to the AFL-CIO.

Dubinsky formed the American Labor Party, which served as a party to provide a voice to disenfranchised Democrats who wanted to use their collective voice to shape Democratic politics.

#JewOfTheDay #Labor #RussianJews #Jewdiverse #LaborDay

✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Bea Arthur!

Bea Arthur was stage and television actor. She is best known for her work on the television where she played Maude Findlay on Maude and All In The Family, and on the Golden Girls and The Golden Palace, where she played Dorothy Zbornak.

Before and after Made/Golden Girls, Arthur performed on stage in various shows, including her one woman show Just Between Friends and in small television roles, such as on Futurama as the Femputer, and on the Star Wars Holiday Special as Ackmena.

Arthur embraced several causes in her life, primarily around children, as well as embracing the LGBTQ+ movement which had supported her/her work during her career first on Maude, then Golden Girls. Her will left an endowment to both the Ali Forney Center and the American Indian College Fund. The Ali Forney Center has a facility named in her honor.

#JewOfTheDay #BeaArthur #Actor #GayIcon #GoldenGirls #StarWars #Futurama #Jewdiverse

✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Joan Rivers!

Joan Alexandra Molinsky, better known as Joan Rivers, was a comedian, actor, writer, and television star. She's considered one of the pioneers of women in comedy, breaking gender barrers with her extreme and biting wit.

In her career spanning over fifty years, she was the first female host of a late night talk show, hosted two talk shows of her own. Rivers won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Talk Show host. She also created and hoted Fashion Police, as well as Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?.

Rivers also wrote twelve best selling books, She won a Grammy Award for her comedy album What Becomes a Semi-Legend Most? and was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked her the #6 comedian of all time.

#JewOfTheDay #JewishComedians #Comedy #Talkshow #WomenInComedy #Jewdiverse

✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Joan Rivers!

Joan Alexandra Molinsky, better known as Joan Rivers, was a comedian, actor, writer, and television star. She's considered one of the pioneers of women in comedy, breaking gender barrers with her extreme and biting wit.

In her career spanning over fifty years, she was the first female host of a late night talk show, hosted two talk shows of her own. Rivers won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Talk Show host. She also created and hoted Fashion Police, as well as Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?.

Rivers also wrote twelve best selling books, She won a Grammy Award for her comedy album What Becomes a Semi-Legend Most? and was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked her the #6 comedian of all time.

#JewOfTheDay #JewishComedians #Comedy #Talkshow #WomenInComedy #Jewdiverse

✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Joan Rivers!

Joan Alexandra Molinsky, better known as Joan Rivers, was a comedian, actor, writer, and television star. She's considered one of the pioneers of women in comedy, breaking gender barrers with her extreme and biting wit.

In her career spanning over fifty years, she was the first female host of a late night talk show, hosted two talk shows of her own. Rivers won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Talk Show host. She also created and hoted Fashion Police, as well as Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?.

Rivers also wrote twelve best selling books, She won a Grammy Award for her comedy album What Becomes a Semi-Legend Most? and was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked her the #6 comedian of all time.

#JewOfTheDay #JewishComedians #Comedy #Talkshow #WomenInComedy #Jewdiverse

✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Joan Rivers!

Joan Alexandra Molinsky, better known as Joan Rivers, was a comedian, actor, writer, and television star. She's considered one of the pioneers of women in comedy, breaking gender barrers with her extreme and biting wit.

In her career spanning over fifty years, she was the first female host of a late night talk show, hosted two talk shows of her own. Rivers won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Talk Show host. She also created and hoted Fashion Police, as well as Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?.

Rivers also wrote twelve best selling books, She won a Grammy Award for her comedy album What Becomes a Semi-Legend Most? and was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked her the #6 comedian of all time.

#JewOfTheDay #JewishComedians #Comedy #Talkshow #WomenInComedy #Jewdiverse

✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Joan Rivers!

Joan Alexandra Molinsky, better known as Joan Rivers, was a comedian, actor, writer, and television star. She's considered one of the pioneers of women in comedy, breaking gender barrers with her extreme and biting wit.

In her career spanning over fifty years, she was the first female host of a late night talk show, hosted two talk shows of her own. Rivers won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Talk Show host. She also created and hoted Fashion Police, as well as Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?.

Rivers also wrote twelve best selling books, She won a Grammy Award for her comedy album What Becomes a Semi-Legend Most? and was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked her the #6 comedian of all time.

#JewOfTheDay #JewishComedians #Comedy #Talkshow #WomenInComedy #Jewdiverse

✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Boris Volynov!

Boris Valentinovich Volynov (Бори́с Валенти́нович Волы́нов) is a Soviet cosmonaut who flew two harrowing missions and is considered the first Jew in space.

Volnov trained to be on the Voskhod 1 mission, the seventh manned Soviet flight mission, as well as the Voskhod, but was bumped from the crew roster of both, very likely due to his being Jewish. He did fly on Soyuz 5, but both this and the Soyuz 21 mission suffered muliple mission problems, including mechanical failures and resulted in hard landings, the first of which broke several of Volynov's teeth.

Despite his career being held back for being Jewish, Volynov has been heavily awarded, including two Orders of Lenin, two Hero of the Soviet Union awards, an Order of the Red Star, an Order of Friendship, an "Order For Merit to the Fatherland 4th class", as well as others.

#JewOfTheDay #RussianJews #Astronaut #Cosmonaut #JewsInSpace #Jewdiverse:

✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Yoshua Bengio!

Yoshua Bengio is a Turing Award-winning machine learning researcher. He was born to Moroccan Jews in France who then all later moved to Montreal. Bengio founded the MILA institute for machine learning research, helping to turn Montreal and Canada by extension into the major center for artificial intelligence research it is today.

Bengio and his students have invented many of the core algorithms that define the field of deep learning today. Whether it be autoencoders, word embeddings, encoder-decoder models, attention models, generative adverserial models, and many more.

#JewOfTheDay #MachineLeaning #AI #MorrocanJews #Sephardi #Mizrahi #DeepLearning #Jewdiverse

(thank you @raf for this guest entry)

✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Rosalind Franklin!

Rosalind Elsie Franklin was a chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose pioneering work paved the way for many huge scientific advances, specifically around DNA, of which she is considered by many to be an unsung hero, outlining the composition and basic structure of the DNA structure before Watson and Crick.

Franklin's early work was on using X-ray and displacement to determine the porousness of coal, which was of critical importance during WW2, as it determine coal's applicability as both a fuel source and as a possible filter in gas masks, etc.

After the war, she went on to work on biology, where she studied the structure of RNA viruses.

She made multiple discoveries, including that of protein molecules arranged in a helix. She even presented her findings at a lecture where Watson attended, but he did not recognize her findings.

#JewOfTheDay #scientist #biologist #DNA #BritishJews #Jewdiverse

✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Sivan Yaari!

Sivan Yaari is the founder of Innovation: Africa, a non-profit that brings sustainable technological innovations to rural African villages. Her organization has completed over 900 projects, which include solar energy to power schools and hospitals, solar powered water filters and pumps that have brought clean water to over four million people, and drip irrigation systems to allow villages to be be more sustainable and financially independent. Her non-profit also has a unique funding model that optimizes donation impact.

Yaari was awarded the Light of Israel Award, "Inspiring Israeli this Decade" by Grapevine, and “50 Most Influential Women in Israel” by Forbes, as well as other accolades. She was selected to light one of the twelve torches at Israel's 75th Independence Day.

#JewOfTheDay #philanthropist #Africa #Israeli #Jewdiverse #SustainableTechnology #nonprofit

✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Éric Benhamou!

Éric Benhamou is a software developer, entrepreneur and businessman. He's best known for being the CEO of 3Com from 1990 until 2000, and the Palm Pilot, which was the first widely successful personal digital assistant (PDA).

After moving to the US from France (and before that, from Algeria), he worked at Zilog until it was acquired, then co-founded Bridge Communications, which was a acquired by 3Com. He rose through the ranks and became CEO of 3Com, while at the same time, working with a new startup Palm Computing on what eventually became the Palm Pilot, the first widely successful PDA.

He received the Medal of Honor of Ellis Island as well as the Nessim Habif prize. He is the founder of Benhamou Global Ventures, as well as the non-profit ISRAEL21c.

Fun Fact: Benhamou is the youngest student at École nationale supérieure d'arts et métiers to receive a "diplôme d'Ingénieur".

#JewOfTheDay #3Com #PalmPilot #CEO #Sephardi #Jewdiverse

✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Emma Lazarus!

Emma Lazarus was a poet and activist for Jewish and Georgist causes. Her most famous work is "The New Colossus". A quote from the The New Colossus is inscribed on a plaque near the Statue of Liberty.

Lazarus believed in equality and the single tax movement. She also worked to assist Jews fleeing pogroms in Eastern Europe, despite the fact that she herself came from a wealthy family of Sephardi Jews who had come to New York City (then New Amsterdam) in the Jewish arrival in New Amsterdam in 1654. She helped found the Hebrew Technical Institute and the Society for the Improvement and Colonization of East European Jews.

Her poems and positions appeared in many newspapers and publications of the time.

Many historians credit Lazarus for shaping the self-identity of the United States.

#JewOfTheDay #UnitedStates #StatueOfLiberty #poet #activist #NewYorker #NewYork #American #Georgist #SingleTax

✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Georges Moustaki!

Georges Moustaki was a musician and songwriter in France who wrote many of the biggest French musical hits for artists such as Édith Piaf, Brigitte Fontaine, Françoise Hardy, Yves Montand, Barbara, and more.

Moustaki grew up in Aleandria as a Romaniote Jew. At age 17, he moved to France and worked as a door to door salesman by day and working nightclubs by night, and soonafter began working for a songwriter. He specifically wrote songs for Edith Piaf, who he then became romantically involved with as well.

Many of his songs were international hits, and he eventually began his own career, and as a polygot, he would sing in all the languages he knew, which were Arabic, Greek, French, Italian, English, Spanish and Portugese.

#JewOfTheDay #Musician #French #FrenchJew #Romaniote #Jewdiverse #Mazeldon

✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Alex Borstein!

Alexandrea Borstein is an actor, comedian, writer and producer. She has a long career in television and film, but is best known for her role as Lois Griffin in Family Guy, and as Susie Myerson in The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel . She also worked on the sketch comedy show MADtv from 1997 until 2009. She has multiple Emmy awards, as well as Screen Actor's Guild awards for her work on those shows.

In addition to her on screen work, Borstein is also a writer. She's written for MADtv,, Family Guy, and on the Showtime comedy-drama Shameless as a writer and supervising producer,

Borstein is outspoken about her Jewishness and emphasizes the importance of keeping Jewish traditions such as Shabbat in her family through her interviews and Instagram feed.

#JewOfTheDay #actor #actress #comedian #writer #producer #FamilyGuy #MarvelousMrsMaisel #MADtv #Jewdiverse #Mazeldon

✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Shel Silverstein!

Sheldon Allan Silverstein was an author, musician, playright, poet, and artist. Silverstein is best known for the children's books which he wrote and illustrated himself: The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends, and A Light in the Attic..

Less known about Silverstein is that he was successful in several other careerss, aside from children's books. He wrote and published a hit series for Playboy Magazine called Shel Silverstein Visits.... He also wrote several hit songs in the 1960s in multiple musical genres, but particularly country singers. Among other songs, he wrote the chart toppers, A Boy Named Sue, Put Another Log on the Fire, as well as music for television and film. Silverstein is the recipient of two Grammy awards.

In addition, Silverstein wrote and produced many short plays that were off-Broadway hits, and have recently been revived.

#JewOfTheDay #ChildrensAuthor #musician #poet #illustrator #playwright

✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Jon Ronson!

Jon Ronson is a journalist, writer, radio producer, speaker, and filmmaker. Ronson's works often involves him embedding himself into a subject or culture in order to try to understand it better and offer either a look into, or commentary on that world. Much of his work includes people who are on the edge of society. such as extremists, or people that are judged to be mentally ill.

He has written twelve books, created two documentary series for BBC Channel 4, and been featured on Public Radio International (specifically on This American Life), as well as a movie based on his work "Men Who Stare at Goats".

#JewOfTheDay #journalist #gonzojournalism #author #BBC4 #PublicRadio #ThisAmericanLife #WelshJews #Jewdiverse #Mazeldon

✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Dear Abby!

Pauline Esther Phillips was an advice columnist and radio show host who began the advice column Dear Abby. She started the Dear Abby advice column in 1956. She found great success and her advice column was syndicated to over 1400 newspapers around the world, making it the single most popular advice column of all time.

In 1963, she started a daily radio show based on her advice column called Dear Abby, which dealt with the same material, but in a radio show format. Pauline Ester Phillips worked with her daughter Jeanne Phillips on the column until her retirement, when she handed the column over to her.

Pauline Phillips was the identical twin sister of Esther Pauline Lederer, aka Ann Landers ( https://babka.social/@jewoftheday/110797563220517743 ) and their rivalry became quite bitter, with them never truly reconciling.

#JewOfTheDay #AdviceColumns #RadioHost #Jewdiverse #Mazeldon

✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Anne Landers!

Esther Pauline Lederer took over and popularised the the Anne Landers column in 1918. Anne Landers or was an advice column in newspapers across the US and Canada. The advice column dealt with a variety of topics, but primarily focused on advice and ettiquite. Under Leaderer's leadership, the Anne Landers advice column retained much of the kind, gentle support that it had, but also promoted many radical positions at the time, and even now, including support for "women's liberation", support for homosexuality and "the homosexual lifestyle", and being pro-sex work.

Leaderer worked on Anne Landers until her death in 2002.

#JewOfTheDay #AdviceColumn #Feminist #proLGBT #ProSexWork #AdviceColumns #Jewdiverse #Mazeldon

✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Pink!

Alecia Beth Moore Hart, best known by her stage name, Pink, is a musical artist and actress. Pink has a discograhy of nine records over her more than twenty year career. Many of her albumns have charted in the top Billboard chart in the US and abroad, and she's won multiple awards, including seven MTV Music Awards, three Grammy awards, two Brit awards, and more.

Her website is http://www.pinkspage.com/

#JewOfTheDay #LGBTQ #Singer #Musician #Philadelphian #Jewdiverse #Mazeldon

✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Hank Azaria!

Hank Azaria is an Hollywood actor who has starred in a number of film, television, and stage roles, but he's best known for his work as a voice actor, especially on the Simpsons, where he plays many characters, including Moe, Carl, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, as well as many others.

Azaria's other notable roles include his recurring roles on Mad About You and Friends, for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award, and Agador Spartacus in The Birdcage for which he was nominated for Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role.

Azaria was born and raised in NYC by two Greek Jews who spoke Ladino at home.

#JewOfTheDay #TheSimpsons #Hollywood #Sephardi #Ladino #MadAboutYou #Friends #Jewdiverse #Mazeldon

✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Ludwig Blattner!

Ludwig Blattner, also known as Louis Blattner was an early pioneer of magnetic sound recording, television and telephony. Although wire tape recording existed, Blattner adapted the technology to steel tape, creating the first magnet tape recording. His new device, the Blattnerphone had far higher fidelity than other recording devices at the time and magnet tape was more reliable.

Blattner had other ideas that were ahead of their time, promoting using a specialised version of the Battnerphone to support audiobooks. He also outlined plans for using his new Blattnerphone with telephony equipment to create an answering machine.

Blattner also invented a system for capturing color picture which would later be called Keller-Dorian cinematography. While this system did not end up being very popular outside of a few films, in the 1920s, any color movies were a novelty.

#JewOfTheDay #Inventor #MagneticTape #Jewdiverse #Mazeldon

🌈 Today's Jew of the Day is Raffi Freedman-Gurspan!

Raffi Freedman-Gurspan is an activist who put her activism into practice, and in doing so, has broken many records, being "the first" several times in her career, including first openly transgender person working in the White House.

She has a long career as a transgender rights activist, from her work in the Massachusetts State House, to a policy advisor role at the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE). President Obama appointed her as the Outreach and Recruitment Director, where she became the first openly trans person working in the White House. From there, she became the White House's LGBT Liaison (another first). She also served as a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Today she works at the Department of Transportation.

Ms. Freedman-Gurspan identifies as both Jewish and Lenca and is very open about the values of her Jewish upbringing

#JewOfTheDay #LGBTQ #WhiteHouse #Lena #Honduran #Jewdiverse #Mazeldon

🌈 Today's Jew of the Day, is Rabbi Sandra Lawson

Rabbi Sandra Lawson is the world's first openly gay, female, black rabbi, a milestone she achieved in 2018.

Rabbi Lawson worked for the Anti-Defamation League as an investigative researcher. In 2018, she became an ordained Reconstructionist Rabbi and took on the role of Associate Chaplain at Elon University. In 2021 she took on a new role as Director of Racial Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Reconstructing Judaism.

Her website is https://www.rabbisandralawson.com/

#JewOfTheDay #ReconstructionistJudaism #mazeldon #Jewdiverse #JewsOfColor #BlackJews