Jewish Pride
Michael Steinhardt left a stellar career on Wall Street and spent the next three decades launching revolutionary philanthropic programs like Birthright Israel and OneTable that offer a proud, rich future for the next generation of secular American Jews.

What are the keys to a proud Jewish life? Part memoir, part manifesto, Michael Steinhardt’s Jewish Pride offers a compelling vision for a rich, rewarding future for Jews in America and around the world. From his middle class beginnings in Brooklyn to a spectacular Wall Street career, Steinhardt understood that apathy and assimilation were threatening the Jewish future in America. Meanwhile established Jewish institutions were failing in the urgent task of strengthening secular Jewish identity. Using his own capital and the wisdom and connections he’d gained in his successful business career, Steinhardt recruited partners, focused on data and results, and even got the Israeli government to help launch the revolutionary Birthright program. By turns provocative, inspiring, revealing, and outright hilarious, Jewish Pride captures its author’s unique personality and outlook and offers honest talk about the Jewish world today, along with a bold prescription for revitalizing Jewish life in the future.
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Jewish Pride
Michael Steinhardt left a stellar career on Wall Street and spent the next three decades launching revolutionary philanthropic programs like Birthright Israel and OneTable that offer a proud, rich future for the next generation of secular American Jews.

What are the keys to a proud Jewish life? Part memoir, part manifesto, Michael Steinhardt’s Jewish Pride offers a compelling vision for a rich, rewarding future for Jews in America and around the world. From his middle class beginnings in Brooklyn to a spectacular Wall Street career, Steinhardt understood that apathy and assimilation were threatening the Jewish future in America. Meanwhile established Jewish institutions were failing in the urgent task of strengthening secular Jewish identity. Using his own capital and the wisdom and connections he’d gained in his successful business career, Steinhardt recruited partners, focused on data and results, and even got the Israeli government to help launch the revolutionary Birthright program. By turns provocative, inspiring, revealing, and outright hilarious, Jewish Pride captures its author’s unique personality and outlook and offers honest talk about the Jewish world today, along with a bold prescription for revitalizing Jewish life in the future.
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Jewish Pride

Jewish Pride

by Michael Steinhardt
Jewish Pride

Jewish Pride

by Michael Steinhardt

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Michael Steinhardt left a stellar career on Wall Street and spent the next three decades launching revolutionary philanthropic programs like Birthright Israel and OneTable that offer a proud, rich future for the next generation of secular American Jews.

What are the keys to a proud Jewish life? Part memoir, part manifesto, Michael Steinhardt’s Jewish Pride offers a compelling vision for a rich, rewarding future for Jews in America and around the world. From his middle class beginnings in Brooklyn to a spectacular Wall Street career, Steinhardt understood that apathy and assimilation were threatening the Jewish future in America. Meanwhile established Jewish institutions were failing in the urgent task of strengthening secular Jewish identity. Using his own capital and the wisdom and connections he’d gained in his successful business career, Steinhardt recruited partners, focused on data and results, and even got the Israeli government to help launch the revolutionary Birthright program. By turns provocative, inspiring, revealing, and outright hilarious, Jewish Pride captures its author’s unique personality and outlook and offers honest talk about the Jewish world today, along with a bold prescription for revitalizing Jewish life in the future.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781637580028
Publisher: Wicked Son
Publication date: 10/18/2022
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Michael Steinhardt is one of the Jewish world’s most prominent philanthropists. Born in 1940s Brooklyn, following a spectacular career on Wall Street he has spent decades inspiring Jewish pride through the Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life and launching revolutionary programs like Makor, OneTable, and Birthright Israel. He is the author of No Bull: My Life In and Out of Markets.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

Prologue 1

Chapter 1 A Jew from Bensonhurst 5

Interlude: What Is Pride? 54

Chapter 2 Reinventing Jewish Schools 57

Interlude: A Philanthropic Revolution 109

Chapter 3 Why Birthright Worked 113

Interlude: The Envelope 157

Chapter 4 The Formation of Jewish Habits 160

Interlude: The Jewish Future 201

Chapter 5 The Three Pillars of Jewish Pride 204

Chapter 6 Toward a New Relationship with the Jewish State 236

Chapter 7 How to Fix Our Broken Institutions 258

Epilogue 281

About the Author 286

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