Posts Tagged: Nobel Prize
Israeli-American Among Winners of Nobel Prize in Economics, as Committee Honors ‘Natural Experiments’
Economists David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens won the 2021 Nobel economics prize on Monday for pioneering "natural experiments" to show real-world economic impacts...
American-Jewish Economist Shares Nobel Prize With Finnish-Born MIT Professor
American-Jewish economist Oliver Hart, a professor at Harvard University, and Bengt Holmstrom of Finland, a professor of economics and management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology,...
What Sandy Koufax Can Teach Us About Attracting Young People to Israel
Israel has been abuzz over the last few days, with the news that yet another prodigal son has taken home the world's most prestigious award....
Three Jewish Professors – Two of Them Israeli – Win Nobel Prize in Chemistry
JNS.org - Two Israeli scientists and one American Jewish scientist will share the Nobel Prize in chemistry for work that made it possible "to map...
Nobel Prize Shared by Belgian-Jewish Physicist
JNS.org - Belgian-Jewish physicist Francois Englert and British physicist Peter Higgs will share the Nobel Prize in Physics, for their famous discovery of the...
Two American Jews Win Nobel Prize in Medicine
JNS.org - Two American Jews, along with their German partner, have been awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Medicine. The three scientists, Yale University professor...
Jewish Writer Philip Roth Awarded France’s Highest Honor
Jewish-American author Philip Roth received France's highest honor Friday, the Legion d'honneur, at a ceremony in New York City. In town for the ...
Theater Company to Stage Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’ in Unprecedented Yiddish Performance (VIDEO)
The Yiddish theater once enjoyed packed houses in New York City's Lower East Side, and although those days are long past, a New York theater...
Jewish Teen to be Honored With “Nobel Prize for Children” Award
A 19 year old Jewish teen will be among the 6 recipients of the World of Children Award, which has been referred to as the...
Jewish Nobel Prize Established Over Years of Development
The launch of the Genesis Prize was announced recently by the Office of the Prime Minister of Israel, the Genesis Philanthropy Group, as well as...
The Jewish Nobel Prize
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky and Genesis Philanthropy Group founder Mikhail Fridman announced the new Genesis Prize—worth...
Thinking, Fast and Slow – A Must Read
I must recommend Daniel Kahneman's book, Thinking, Fast and Slow. I was won over at the very start when he describes his conversations ...
Was Saul Bellow a Jewish Writer?
In 1970, when I was living in Glasgow, a close friend suggested I read Saul Bellow's Mr. Sammler's Planet. I went right out and bought...
