His baseball novel, The Natural, was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford. His 1966 novel The Fixer (also filmed), about antisemitism in the Russian Empire, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. [Wikipedia]
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He joined the NBA in 1992 and has held various positions within the league, becoming chief operating officer and deputy commissioner under his predecessor and mentor David Stern in 2006. When Stern retired in 2014, Silver was named commissioner. [Wikipedia]
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Barbara Joan “Barbra” Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, songwriter, film and television producer, and director. With a career spanning over six decades, she has achieved success in multiple fields of entertainment and is among the few performers awarded an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT). [Wikipedia]
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Through his annotations and emendations of Talmudic and other texts, he became one of the most familiar and influential figures in rabbinic study since the Middle Ages. [Wikipedia]
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He was a veteran of the War of 1812 and the first Jewish Commodore of the United States Navy.[note 1] He was instrumental in helping to end the Navy’s practice of flogging, and during his half-century-long service prevailed against the antisemitism he faced among some of his fellow naval officers. [Wikipedia]
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From 1902 to 1904 she was committed to the Metropolitan Opera, and from 1902 to 1905 she toured internationally in more than 1,600 concerts with John Philip Sousa and his band. After her marriage in 1906, she performed only occasionally in the succeeding two decades. Liebling began her teaching career in the 1910s, not stopping until her death more than 50 years later. [Wikipedia]
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Yisrael Yeshayahu Sharabi was an Israeli politician, minister and the fifth Speaker of the Knesset. Born in Sadeh, Yemen, to a Jewish weaver by trade, he was sent to Sana’a at an early age where he studied under Rabbi Yihya Qafih. (Wikipedia)
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Polgár was Women’s World Chess Champion from 1996 to 1999. On FIDE’s Elo rating system list of July 1984, at the age of 15, she became the top-ranked female chess player in the world. In 1991, she became the third woman to be awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE. She won eleven medals at the Women’s Chess Olympiad (4 gold, 4 silver, and 3 bronze). [Wikipedia]
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Élisabeth Borne (born 18 April 1961) is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 2022 to 2024. She is a member of President Emmanuel Macron’s party Renaissance. Borne was the second woman to hold the position of Prime Minister after Édith Cresson, who served from 1991 to 1992. [Wikipedia]
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Antony John Blinken (born April 16, 1962) is an American lawyer and diplomat currently serving as the 71st United States secretary of state. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under President Barack Obama. Blinken was previously national security advisor to then-Vice President Joe Biden from 2009 to 2013. [Wikipedia]
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Rogen and his writing partner, Evan Goldberg, co-wrote the films Superbad (2007), Pineapple Express (2008), The Green Hornet (2011) and This Is the End (2013), and directed This Is the End and The Interview (2014), all of which starred Rogen. He had further comedic roles in Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008), Neighbors (2014), its 2016 sequel, The Disaster Artist (2017), and Long Shot (2019).
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In his 18-year MLB playing career, Ausmus played as a catcher for the San Diego Padres, Detroit Tigers, Houston Astros, and Los Angeles Dodgers. He also managed the Tigers, Los Angeles Angels, and Israeli national baseball team. [Wikipedia]
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As a frequent collaborator of film director Guillermo del Toro, he has had roles in the del Toro films Cronos (1993), Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004), Pacific Rim (2013), Asher (2018), Nightmare Alley (2021), and Pinocchio (2022). [Wikipedia]
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She was twice nominated for the Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series for the “Broad City” series. [Wikipedia]
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