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Jewish American activists

  • Chuck SchumerBob Dole once joked that the most dangerous place in Washington was between Charles Schumer and a television camera. Schumer, a Democrat from Brooklyn, has been a United States senator from New York since 1999. Along the way he has led his…
  • Elizabeth TaylorAfter Rock Hudson said he was dying of AIDS, Elizabeth Taylor helped found a research foundation in 1985.
  • Natalie PortmanNatalie Portman turned down a $2,000,000 prize in 2018. She skipped the Genesis Prize ceremony, and it was canceled.
  • Carl SaganCarl Sagan once asked a librarian for a book on stars and got one about movie stars.
  • Sammy Davis Jr.Sammy Davis Jr. once answered a simple golf question with a line that became his signature. Playing a round with Jack Benny, he was asked what his handicap was. Davis replied, "Handicap?" and then went on: "Talk about handicap. I'm a…
  • Milton FriedmanMilton Friedman argued the Federal Reserve let the money supply shrink by one-third between 1929 and 1933.
  • Bari WeissBari Weiss, an American political commentator born in 1984, has collected an unusually long list of labels. Vanity Fair called her a provocateur. In a 2019 interview with Joe Rogan, she described herself as a left-leaning centrist. At…
  • Barbra StreisandBarbra Streisand once filed a lawsuit that sent a crowd of strangers to look at a single photograph. In 2003 she claimed that a website documenting coastal erosion had invaded her privacy. Among its more than 12,000 images, one happened to…
  • George SorosAt 14, George Soros posed as the Christian godson of a government official to survive the Nazi occupation of Hungary.
  • Jim SimonsJim Simons, born James Harris Simons, once explained his dislike of publicity by borrowing a line from Benjamin the Donkey in Animal Farm. "God gave me a tail to keep off the flies. But I'd rather have had no tail and no flies. That's kind…
  • Laura LoomerLaura Loomer is an American activist whose surname has become a verb. To be "Loomered" is to be fired or damaged in some way for alleged disloyalty to Donald Trump. Few people earn that kind of reputation, and fewer earn it after being…
  • Mark CubanIn 2002, Mark Cuban told the world that the NBA's manager of officials, Ed T. Rush, "wouldn't be able to manage a Dairy Queen." The restaurant chain took offense. Its management answered with an invitation to prove the point. Cuban…

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