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Jewish Leaders

Jewish leaders tended to be warriors and prophets in ancient Israel. Then, when the Jewish People were in exile and without a homeland, scholars, teachers, and rabbis became leaders. In the twentieth century, the Jewish People survived Hitler's plans of annihilation and gained their own nation. Soldiers, political leaders, rabbis, academics, and philanthropists are today's Jewish leaders.
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
Louis Dembitz Brandeis was a scholar, a lawyer, a U.S. Supreme Court Judge, and a Zionist leader.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921, and immigrated from Germany to America in 1933 following the rise of Hitler to power. Einstein is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass-energy equivalence, E = mc2.
Golda Meir
Biography of Golda Meir. She immigrated from Russia to the United States at age 8, then left at age 23 to help found a Jewish state. Golda Meir became the third prime minister of Israel.
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