Jewish activists

Boris (Boruch) Mendelevich Dorfman Russian: Борис (Борух) Менделевич Дорфман Yiddish: באָריס (ברוך) דאָרפמאַן‎; born 23 May 1923, in Cahul, Bessarabia) was a Jewish public figure, writer, scholar of Jewish culture, and social activist.

Charles Ellis "Chuck" Schumer (/ˈʃuːmər/; born November 23, 1950) is an American politician, the senior United States senator from New York and a member of the Democratic Party.

Thomas Peter "Tom" Lantos (February 1, 1928 – February 11, 2008) was an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from California, serving from 1981 until his death as the representative from a district that included the northern two-thirds of San Mateo County and a portion of southwestern San Francisco.

Mark Cuban (born July 31, 1958) is an American businessman and investor.

Samuel (Shmuel) Polyakov (also Poliakoff, Poliakov, Russian: Самуил Соломонович Поляков) was a Russian businessman, informally known as the "most famous railroad king" of the Russian Empire, the senior member of the Polyakov business family, a philanthropist and a Jewish civil rights activist, co-founder of World ORT.

Jill Ellen Stein (born May 14, 1950) is an American physician, activist and politician.

James Harris "Jim" Simons (born 1938) is an American mathematician, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist.

Patri Friedman (born July 29, 1976 in Blacksburg, Virginia) is an American libertarian activist and theorist of political economy.

Simon Yakovlevich Rosenbaum (1859 in Pinsk, Russian Empire – 1934 in Tel Aviv, Palestine), was a Jewish activist and attorney, member of the First State Duma of the Russian Empire in 1906–1907, Lithuanian Minister for Jewish Affairs from June 29, 1923 to his resignation on February 12, 1924 and Lithuanian consul in Palestine.

Selma James (born Selma Deitch; formerly Weinstein; August 15, 1930), is a co-author of the women's movement classic The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community (with Mariarosa Dalla Costa), co-founder of the International Wages for Housework Campaign and coordinator of the Global Women's Strike.

Bess Myerson (July 16, 1924 – December 14, 2014) was an American politician, model and television actress who was crowned Miss America in 1945.

Ya'akov Ze'ev Latsky ("Bertoldi") (? - 1940) was a Jewish Russian political and Yiddishist activist and briefly a Minister in the Ukrainian People's Republic in 1918.

Leslie L. Alexander (born 1944) is an American attorney, businessman and financier.

Abbot Howard "Abbie" Hoffman (November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989) was an American political and social activist and anarchist who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies").

Baruch Zuckerman (Hebrew: ברוך צוקרמן‎‎; June 26, 1887 – December 13, 1970) was a leading American-Israeli zionist, one of the leading proponents of Yad Vashem, editor of Yiddishe Kempfer, and a leading figure in the Farband and Histadrut campaigns, and president of the Labor Zionist Organization of America.

Lavoslav Kadelburg (26 August 1910 – 12 December 1994) was a Yugoslavian lawyer, judge, polyglot and activist.

Paul Elliott Singer (born August 22, 1944) is an American hedge fund manager, activist investor, and philanthropist.

Dr. Richard Benkin is an American Jewish human rights activist, co-founder of 'Interfaith Strength', journalist, writer and lecturer.

Walter Jakob Wolfgang (born June 1923) is a German-born British socialist and peace activist.

Gustav Metzger (born 10 April 1926) is an artist and political activist who developed the concept of Auto-Destructive Art and the Art Strike.

Morton A. Klein is a German-born American economist, statistician, and pro-Israeli activist.

Yehuda Joshua Glick (Hebrew: יהודה גליק‎‎; born 20 November 1965) is an American-born Israeli rabbi and current Member of the Knesset.

Judy Gold (born November 15, 1962) is an American standup comedian, actress, television writer, and producer.

Aviva Cantor (born 1940) is an American journalist, lecturer and author.

Michael Alan Weiner (born March 31, 1942), better known by his professional name Michael Savage, is an American radio host, author, activist, nutritionist, and conservative political commentator.

Igal Roodenko (February 8, 1917 – April 28, 1991) was an American civil rights activist, and pacifist.

Lewis Gompertz (1783/4–1861) was an early animal rights advocate, a vegan, and a founding member in June 1824, of the English Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, later the RSPCA.

Anna Rozental was a Bundist activist in the Russian Empire and later Soviet Russia.

Brant Rosen (born February 22, 1963) is an American rabbi, journalist, author and blogger, known for his activism and outspokenness on behalf of the Palestinian people.

Shamsi Hekmat or Šamsi Morādpur Hekmat (1917 – July 2, 1997) was an Iranian woman who pioneered reforms in women's status in Iran.

Kalmen Kaplansky, CM (January 5, 1912 – December 10, 1997) was a civil, human rights and trade union activist in Canada.

Albert Lucas (1859–1923) was a Jewish activist and early promoter of the resurgence of Orthodox Judaism in America.

Ilan Halevi (Hebrew: אִילָן הַלֵּוִי; born Georges Alain Albert; 12 October 1943 – 10 July 2013) was a Jewish Palestinian journalist and politician, and one of the very few high-ranking Jewish members of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

Sidney Stone Blumenthal (/ˈbluːmənθɔːl/; born November 6, 1948) is an American journalist, activist, writer, and former political aide.

Gisèle Halimi (born Zeiza Gisèle Élise Taïeb in 1927) is a French lawyer, feminist activist, and essayist.

Ari Benjamin Lesser (born November 9, 1986, Cleveland Heights, Ohio) is an American Orthodox Jewish rapper, singer, songwriter, and spoken word artist.

Maurice Nathan Eisendrath (July 10, 1902 – November 11, 1972) was a leader of American Reform Judaism, the head of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations from 1943 until his death, an author, and an activist, particularly active in the U.

Helene S. Coleman (born 1925) was the President of the National Council of Jewish Women.

Leslie Feinberg (September 1, 1949 – November 15, 2014) was an American transgender, butch lesbian activist, communist, and author.

Artur Carlos de Barros Basto (Hebrew: אברהם ישראל בן-ראש‎‎; Abraham Israel Ben-Rosh) was born December 18, 1887 in Amarante, Portugal, and died in Porto on March 8, 1961.

Benjamin Aaron "Ben" Shapiro (born January 15, 1984) is an American conservative political commentator, nationally syndicated columnist, author, radio talk show host, and attorney.

Maxim Ghilan (1931–2005) was an Israeli poet and activist.

Moishe Lewis (born Losz, sometimes known as Morris Lewis, 1888–1950) was a Jewish labour activist in eastern Europe and Canada.

Nathan "Nate" Kleinman is a human rights activist and political organizer.

Robert Roth (born 1950),Was an active member in the anti-war, anti-racism and anti-imperialism movements of the 1960s and 70s, and key member of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) political movement in the Columbia University Chapter in New York, where he eventually presided.

Bernard Lazare (15 June 1865 — 1 September 1903) was a French Jewish literary critic, political journalist, polemicist, and anarchist.

Alice Herz (May 25, 1882 – March 26, 1965) was the first activist in the United States known to have immolated herself in protest of the escalating Vietnam War, following the example of Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức who immolated himself in protest of the alleged oppression of Buddhists under the South Vietnamese government.

Manny Waks, born Menachem Leib Waks in Israel in 1976, is a Jewish activist.

Rabbi Menachem Froman (also spelled Menahem and Fruman; Hebrew: מנחם פרומן‎‎‎; 1 June 1945 – 4 March 2013) was an Israeli Orthodox Jewish rabbi and a peacemaker and negotiator with close ties to Palestinian religious leaders from the PLO and Hamas.

I. F. Stone (Isidor Feinstein Stone, 24 December 1907 – 18 June 1989) was an American investigative journalist and writer known as a man of great integrity (personal and political) who was inspiration to other writers, and an intellectual annoyance to the American right wing.

Luis Favre Argentine (born in Buenos Aires, Argentina 1949) is the pseudonym of Argentine-born Brazilian journalist and political activist Felipe Belisario Wermus.

Sally Rebecca Kohn (born March 27, 1977) is an American lawyer, liberal political commentator, community organizer, and founder and chief executive officer of the Movement Vision Lab, a grassroots think tank.

Arik Ascherman (born 1959) is an American-born Israeli Reform rabbi, and co-founder and Director of Special Projects for Rabbis for Human Rights, an Israeli organization for which he previously served as Executive Director.

Andrew James Breitbart (/ˈbraɪtbɑːrt/; February 1, 1969 – March 1, 2012) was an American conservative publisher, commentator for The Washington Times, journalist, author, and television and radio personality on various news programs, who served as an editor for the Drudge Report website.

Dennie Moore (December 30, 1902 – February 22, 1978) was an American film and stage actress.

Ira Saul Glasser (born 1938) was the fifth executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from 1978 to 2001.

Ruth Dayan (born March 7, 1917) is the founder of the Maskit fashion house and is active in many social causes.

Shelley Rubin is an American social activist and the widow of JDL International Chairman Irv Rubin, and is currently the chairman and CEO of the USA-based, Kahanist, Jewish Defense League, a group which was classified as "a right-wing terrorist group" by the FBI in 2001.