Anne Frank House Banned Orthodox Jewish Employee From Wearing His Skullcap at Work A Jewish employee at Anne Frank House could not believe his ears when his bosses banned him from wearing a skullcap at work. Barry Vingerling turned up for work on his first day at the museum in Amsterdam and was told to […]
“There was always a respect of my traditions, because if needed, I would come in after Yom Kippur…My boss [called me] and said, ‘Hey Federbush, I see that there are three stars out, I’m gonna need you to come in.’ He knows that I would and did.”
Michael Eisenberg, Partner – Aleph, Returns to Forbes Midas List A returnee to this year’s Midas List, Michael Eisenberg is an equal partner at Aleph, the firm he cofounded with Eden Shochat in 2013. Aleph has raised $330 million across two funds to invest in Israeli startups, with 17 portfolio companies including WeWork, the co-working […]
Dr. Julius Kuhl should be as famous as the protagonist of Steven Spielberg’s Academy Award-winning Holocaust movie, but after saving up to two thousand lives (Oskar Schindler saved 1600), this modest hero was not looking for recognition. Post-World War II, Kuhl settled in Toronto with his family where he ran a construction company and lived in […]
Moshe Friedman may come from 42 generations of rabbis, but at 30 years old (after becoming a rabbi first, of course!) this seventh generation Israeli knew he had to forge another path. “My great-grandfather was the chief rabbi of Jerusalem, Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, the founder of the Eidah Haredit…But when I was 30 years old, […]
“Science doesn’t give answers, it ask questions. And it’s certainly not all questions and not all things are answered.”
