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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Egyptian American Jews, Moroccan American Jews, Tunisian American Jews, Shiri Appleby, Isaac Mizrahi, Paul Benacerraf, Nick Valensi, Max Azria. Excerpt: Shiri Freda Appleby (born December 7, 1978) is an American film and television actress. She is best known for her leading role as Liz Parker in the television series Roswell. Her film credits include A Time for Dancing, where she was one of the two female main characters; Swimfan; Havoc with Anne Hathaway; and Charlie Wilson's War with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts. In 2008, Appleby joined the cast of the final season of ER, playing an intern named Daria Wade, and now stars in the CW drama Life Unexpected as Cate Cassidy. Appleby was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Dina (née Bouader), an Israeli-born Hebrew school teacher, and Jerry Appleby, a Jewish-American telecommunications executive. She and her younger brother Evan were raised in Calabasas in Los Angeles County. Her mother is of Sephardic Moroccan Jewish background. In Hebrew, shiri means either "my song" or simply "sing." She has a scar above her left eyebrow, which resulted from a dog bite when she was young. To get over her fear of dogs, she went on the show Emergency Vets, accompanying staff veterinarian Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald (she also overcame another phobia in the same episode by holding a live snake, one of Fitzgerald's patients) and shortly after adopted a Tabby, which she named Abby. Appleby graduated from Calabasas High School in 1997 and went on to major in English literature at the University of Southern California while also studying theater arts. Appleby began her acting career at the age of four, starting with advertising for various products such as Cheerios and M ... Read more

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Chapters: Emma Lazarus, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Jack Sarfatti, Daniel de Leon, Lea Michele, Shiri Appleby, Uriah P. Levy, Robert Nathan, Raphael Soriano, Lainie Kazan, Nicholas Nagy-Talavera, Gershom Mendes Seixas, Washington Bartlett, Annie Nathan Meyer, Jonathan Ahdout, Jacob Barsimson, Marc D. Angel, Albert Jean Amateau, Max Wolf Valerio, Shaul Bakhash, Maud Nathan, Kirk Cashmere. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 90. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (May 24, 1870 July 9, 1938) was a well-known American lawyer and associate Supreme Court Justice. Cardozo is remembered for his significant influence on the development of American common law in the 20th century, in addition to his modesty, philosophy, and vivid prose style. Although Cardozo only served on the Supreme Court from 1932 until his death six years later, the majority of his landmark decisions were delivered during his eighteen year tenure on the New York Court of Appeals, the highest court of that state. The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University in New York City is named after him. Cardozo was born in New York City, the son of Rebecca Washington (née Nathan) and Albert Jacob Cardozo. Both Cardozo's maternal grandparents, Sara Seixas and Isaac Mendes Seixas Nathan, and his paternal grandparents, Ellen Hart and Michael H. Cardozo, were Sephardi Jews of the Portuguese Jewish community affiliated with Manhattan's Congregation Shearith Israel; their families emigrated from England before the American Revolution, and were descended from Jews who left the Iberian Peninsula for Holland during the Inquisition. Cardozo family tradition held that their ancestors were Marranos from Portugal, although Cardozo's ancestry has not been firmly traced to Portugal. "Cardozo" (archaic spelling of Cardos...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=594837 ... Read more

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Chapters: Moroccan American Jews, John Fritchey, Shiri Appleby, Paul Benacerraf, Khalid Khannouchi, Sanaa Hamri, Driss Temsamani, Laila Lalami, Danny Nucci, Sondra Barker, Moroccan Americans. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 47. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Danny Nucci Danny Nucci (born September 15, 1968) is an American film and television actor.Biography Personal Life Nucci was born in Klagenfurt , Austria , to a Moroccan mother and an Italian father, and was raised in Italy until the age of seven, when his family relocated to the United States. He has two sisters, Natalie and Elle. After temporarily living in Queens, New York , the family settled in California 's San Fernando Valley, where Nucci graduated from Grant High School . He is married to Paula Marshall and has two daughters. Marshall and Nucci played lovers in the 1997 Bette Midler film, That Old Feeling .Career Nucci played characters who were unceremoniously killed off in short succession during three different 1990s blockbuster action films -- Eraser , The Rock , and Titanic -- three of which were released within twenty months of one another in 1996 and 1997. His character did manage to survive in the 1993 film Alive: The Miracle of the Andes .Nucci played Gabriel Ortega on the CBS soap opera Falcon Crest from 1988 to 1989; as Vincent Sforza, alongside Marguerite Moreau , in Firestarter 2: Rekindled ; as Petty Officer Danny Rivetti in the 1995 Gene Hackman -Denzel Washington submarine thriller Crimson Tide ; and as Spider Bomboni in Book of Love . He took the roles of Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez in the straight-to-video movie The Sandlot: Heading Home and a Port Authority Police Officer in the 2006 film World Trade Center .Notable television appearances include Growing Pains , The Twilight Zone , Snoops , Just Shoot Me , House M.D. , Without a Trace... ... Read more