{"id":8219,"date":"2026-08-18T20:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/community\/?p=8219"},"modified":"2026-09-24T17:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T17:26:07","slug":"spirit-the-top-10-american-jews-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/community\/spirit-programming\/spirit-the-top-10-american-jews-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"SPIRIT: The Top 10 American Jews in History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">August 18, 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Top 10 American Jews in History <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">For its 250 years of existence, America has welcomed Jews to its\u00a0shores &#8212; and many Jews have contributed significantly in various areas, including government, medicine, law, the arts, and academia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><strong>Michael Feldstein<\/strong>, who gives Jewish history classes in his community in Stamford, CT, has compiled a list of who he feels are the Top 10 Jews in American history, and will be making a presentation of his findings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Who is on your Top 10 list?\u00a0 Join the session and compare notes!<\/p>\n<div>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<\/div>\n<p data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><strong>Presented by Michael Feldstein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 18, 2026 The Top 10 American Jews in History For its 250 years of existence, America has welcomed Jews to its\u00a0shores &#8212; and many Jews have contributed significantly in various areas, including government, medicine, law, the arts, and academia.\u00a0 Michael Feldstein, who gives Jewish history classes in his community in Stamford, CT, has compiled<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134247,"featured_media":8233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[109],"class_list":["post-8219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spirit-programming","tag-jewish-history","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - 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