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Rabbi Hirsch was a German rabbi best known as the intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of… [More] contemporary Orthodox Judaism. He was the leader of the secessionist Orthodox community. Occasionally termed neo-Orthodoxy, or what others term Modern Orthodox Judaism, his philosophy, together with that of Azriel Hildesheimer, has had a considerable influence on the development of Orthodox Judaism. He wrote a number of influential books, and for a number of years published the monthly journal Jeschurun, in which he outlined his philosophy of Judaism. He was a vocal opponent of Reform Judaism and similarly opposed early forms of Conservative Judaism. [Less]
1928: Martin Landau
Landau is an American-Jewish film and television actor. Landau began his career in the 1950s. His early films… [More] include a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock’s “North by Northwest” (1959). He played continuing roles in the television series “Mission: Impossible” (for which he received several Emmy Award nominations) and “Space:1999.” Influenced by Charlie Chaplin and the escapism of the cinema, he pursued an acting career. He also attended the Actors Studio, became good friends with iconic actor James Dean, and later was in the same class with Steve McQueen. In 1957, Landau made his Broadway debut in “Middle of the Night.” [Less]
1954: Ilan Ramon
Ramon was a fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force, and later the first Israeli astronaut. He was the… [More] space shuttle payload specialist of STS-107, the fatal mission of Columbia, in which he and six other crew members were killed in the re-entry accident. (The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster occurred on February 1, 2003, when shortly before it was scheduled to conclude its 28th mission, it disintegrated over Texas and Louisiana during re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere). Ramon is the only foreign recipient of the United States Congressional Space Medal of Honor. [Less]