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Jeanette Dousdebes Rubio
Jeanette Christina Dousdebes Rubio (born 1973, Miami) is the wife of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, daughter of Colombian parents from Bogotá and Cali, former Miami Dolphins cheerleader, married Rubio in 1998, mother of four.
Jeanne Gapiya-Niyonzima
Jeanne Gapiya-Niyonzima (born 1963) is a Burundian HIV/AIDS and human rights activist who in 1994 became the first woman in Burundi to disclose publicly she was living with HIV.
Jeffrey Wigand
Jeffrey Wigand, American biochemist and former vice president of research and development at Brown & Williamson Tobacco, whistleblower on nicotine manipulation exposed in 60 Minutes and The Insider.
Jeltoqsan
Jeltoqsan (Желтоқсан, Kazakh for "December"), also spelled Zheltoksan, was a series of mass youth protests that began in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on December 17, 1986, and were violently suppressed by Soviet forces.
Jena Six
The Jena Six, also known as the Jena 6, were six African-American Louisiana high school students whose 2006 attempted-murder prosecution became a national racial justice flashpoint.
Jenna Miscavige Hill
Jenna Miscavige Hill (born 1984), American former Scientologist, niece of church leader David Miscavige, daughter of Ron Miscavige Jr.; author of the 2013 memoir Beyond Belief and co-founder of ExScientologyKids.com after leaving the Sea Org in 2005.
Jennifer Barreto
Jennifer Barreto, Miss Universe Puerto Rico 2026 from San Sebastián, crowned June 25, 2026 in Caguas; a 27-year-old prevention specialist with two master's degrees, hosting Miss Universe 2026 in San Juan.
Jennifer Flavin
Jennifer Flavin (Jennifer Lee Flavin Stallone), born 1968, American businesswoman and former model, co-founder of Serious Skin Care; married Sylvester Stallone in 1997, three daughters, filed for divorce in 2022 then reconciled.
Jerome Bruner
Jerome Bruner (1915-2016), American cognitive psychologist; central to the cognitive revolution; origin of discovery learning, the spiral curriculum, scaffolding, and narrative modes of thought.
Jerry Rubin
Jerry Rubin (1938-1994), American counterculture activist, co-founded the Yippies with Abbie Hoffman, organized the 1967 Pentagon march, was a Chicago Seven defendant, then became a Wall Street venture banker.
Jerusalem Demsas
Jerusalem Demsas, American journalist on housing and land use policy; Vox policy reporter and The Weeds co-host (2020-2022), Atlantic staff writer and Good on Paper podcast host, founding editor of the liberal magazine The Argument.
Jerusalem syndrome
Jerusalem syndrome is an acute psychotic state with intense religious delusions affecting some visitors to Jerusalem, described since the 1930s and studied by Bar-El's team at Kfar Shaul: 1,200 tourist referrals 1980–1993, three types, and a rare discrete form in previously healthy people.
Jesse Jackson
Jesse Jackson (Jesse Louis Jackson Sr., born Jesse Louis Burns), 1941-2026, American civil rights leader, Baptist minister, Operation PUSH and Rainbow PUSH founder, and 1984/1988 Democratic presidential candidate; died February 17, 2026, in Chicago.
Jessica Mitford
Jessica Mitford (Decca, 1917-1996), English-born American muckraking author and Mitford sister, wrote The American Way of Death (1963), exposing the US funeral industry, plus Kind and Usual Punishment and The American Way of Birth.
Jessie Harlan Lincoln
Jessie Harlan Lincoln (1875–1948), also Jessie Lincoln Beckwith Johnson Randolph, second daughter of Robert Todd Lincoln and granddaughter of Abraham Lincoln; mother of Peggy Beckwith and Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, the last undisputed Lincoln descendant.
Jet set
The jet set is a fashionable set of wealthy people who travel by jetliner to parties and resorts worldwide, named in the 1950s after jet aircraft.
Jewish agricultural colonies in Argentina
Jewish agricultural colonies in Argentina were farming settlements for Eastern European Jewish immigrants, begun with Moisés Ville in 1889 and organized by the Jewish Colonization Association.
Jewish Bolshevism
Jewish Bolshevism, or Judeo-Bolshevism, is an antisemitic conspiracy theory claiming communism and the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution were Jewish plots; historians reject it as myth rooted in Protocols-style tropes, used by Nazis to justify murdering Jews.
Jewish diaspora (תפוצות)
Jewish diaspora (תפוצות; galut, exile): Jewish settlement outside the land of Israel, from the Assyrian and Babylonian deportations (8th–6th centuries BCE) through the Roman-era dispersion to today's 15.8 million Jews, 8.5 million of them outside Israel.
Jewish ethnic divisions
Jewish ethnic divisions cover the Ashkenazim of Europe, Sephardim of Iberian origin, and Mizrahim of the Middle East and North Africa, plus smaller groups like Beta Israel; also their genetics, languages, and role in Israeli society.
Jewish exodus from Morocco
The Jewish exodus from Morocco was the mass emigration of Morocco's Jewish community, mainly to Israel, between 1948 and the 1970s; over 270,000 migrated to Israel by 2012.
Jewish exodus from the Muslim world
The Jewish exodus from the Muslim world: the departure of roughly 850,000 Jews from Arab countries and about one million from Islamic lands between 1948 and the 1970s, mostly to Israel, leaving around 30,000 in Muslim countries by 2020.
Jewish nose
The "Jewish nose" is an antisemitic stereotype of a distinctive hooked nose, arising in 13th-century Christian art, codified by race science and plastic surgery, and persisting in propaganda and media.
Jewish population by country
Jewish population by country, also called Jews by country, is the distribution of the world's Jews, concentrated in Israel and the United States, with about 14.8 million worldwide in 2020.
Jewish pro-Palestinian activism
Jewish pro-Palestinian activism: political action by Jews and Jewish groups, mainly Jewish Voice for Peace (founded 1996), IfNotNow (2014), and Jewish Voice for Liberation, supporting Palestinian rights through anti-occupation and anti-Zionist organizing, BDS endorsement, and campus protest.
Jewish supremacy
Jewish supremacy is a contested term: a conspiracy theme in white supremacist and antisemitic ideology, and a critical label for specific Israeli policies and far-right movements such as Lehava and Otzma Yehudit.
Jewish wedding
Jewish wedding, the ceremony of kiddushin (betrothal) and nissuin (marriage) in Judaism: ketubah contract, two witnesses, chuppah, ring, Sheva Berakhot, yichud, glass-breaking, and modern egalitarian reform.
Jews
Jews: an ethnoreligious group and people tracing origins to the ancient Israelites, defined by religion, ancestry, and culture; about 15 million worldwide, centered in Israel and the United States.
Jigsaw classroom
The jigsaw classroom is a cooperative learning technique where students each learn one lesson piece and teach it to classmates, first used in Austin, Texas, in 1971.
Jimmy Carter UFO incident
Jimmy Carter UFO incident: October 1969 sighting of a bright, color-changing object near Leary, Georgia, witnessed by Carter and about a dozen others; reported to the International UFO Bureau in 1973, publicized in the 1976 campaign, and identified skeptically as Venus.