Rabbi Yitzhak Kesselman, a Hasidic Orthodox Jew who lives in the Chabad community in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, was recently promoted to Corporate Vice President of Messaging and Real-Time Analytics Platform at Microsoft. This makes him the highest-ranking Orthodox Jew at the company. In his position, he will be managing 400 employees around the world in […]
Esther Altura, who moved to Israel from Los Angeles, is the co-founder of DrizzleX, which develops solutions for water conservation. While she once struggled to find funding, her participation in Proptech Zone’s accelerator has led to an NIS 1.6 million ($500,000) investment from Israel Investment Fund Group. “For Israelis, water conservation is in our DNA,” […]
While Hasidic Jews might enjoy some alcohol with their rebbe at a Friday night tish, said alcohol would never have been produced by a female descendant of a prominent Hasidic rabbinic dynasty. Until now. Gitty Halberstam isn’t what you picture when a Hasidic woman or “bootlegger” (what she sarcastically calls herself) comes to mind. But […]
Last month, Newmax’s daytime news and political show, Liquid Lunch, invited Allison to speak about the Measles outbreak in the Orthodox Jewish community. Last week, they invited her on again to discuss the rising Anti-Semitic attacks in New York City and around the world, how anti-Zionism and BDS is a form of anti-Semitism, and the […]
Though many people believe that Orthodox Jewish women aren’t allowed to work, the JWE (The Jewish Women Entrepreneur) works hard to change the lives of hundreds of frum businesswomen, to the tune of millions of dollars in sales. In 2011, Chaya Fishman, founded the organization to help women combat the prejudices against them and succeed. Fishman says, […]
Meet Neil Schloss, CFO, Mobility, Ford Motor Company, who values the humility that a Torah life gives him. “The career wasn’t going a whole lot of places. Then I became religious and my career took off. Connection? Don’t know, but I am a believer that there is a correlation there.” Director of Photography: Elie Gabor […]
