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bill ackman is one of the nation's leading hedge fund managers
emily stature is an analyst for a major wall street investment back whereby
eliot cosgrove needs new york's park avenue synagogue they are all the curse
of the jewish community but they didn't start that way they shared their
personal stories that the two thousand eleven total a renaissance award kayla
honoring morris off it
when my parents got me often at leicester university for my freshman
year back in two thousand five
they helped me unpack
they gave me big hugs and like tens of thousands of other jewish parents around
the world baker to me to go to hell on friday night
so now chilling i did exactly what tens of thousands of other jewish kids around
the world to know
i laughed
bill ackman grew up in the neighborhood in new york that once excluded choose
restriction
in the deed
in the community believed he could not be jewish and live in our neighborhood
my parents
that the laws change i think in the mid sixties reward in the second jewish
combing the neighborhood
uh...
and one of my neighbors
picked on me actually beat me up
called me
an anti-semitic slurs that was a
and uninvolved student
eliot cosgrove visited for the well at the university of michigan one friday
night to say cottage for a close friend
after services he planned to go to a local bar to hang out with friends
and like at the end of a long flight i popped up out of my c ready to leave the
building
i was home free
and then a man popped up
and box me out
and looked at me
and said excuse me
i noticed you've never been here before
at which point i recall thinking wow this guy has an astute sense of the
obvious by only found out about this building about an hour ago
at which point he said it well i was wandering if you have plans for shabbat
dinner
and truth be told that i lied
figuring he didn't really want to hear about dollar picture night at rics that
night
and then he said something
that i'll never forget
he said well i'd bet you don't have plans for next friday night
family became involved in color
fast or it almost two years to the end of my sophomore year
when two of my friends urged me to apply for a program called the campus
entrepreneurs initiative mercy i
on campuses across north america c_d_i_ recruit students with broad social
networks to service peering decent workers
and build relationships with hundreds of uninvolved jewish students across campus
in one of those uninvolved students myself
seay i was a perfect fit for me
through the program i connected with dozens on the dozens of my friends and
form two new relationships as well
together
we explored are jewish identity is a new way is that were appropriate for our age
and for our college life style
it was the first time that we took ownership of these identity since
leaving home
bill was invited to have dinner technical
uh... that's alright
came from locked indoors at his bill how about uh... montana that's critical of
shipping i will
and uh... non-food was much better and allow so i think by the way if i were
giving recommendation make sure we have the best food on campus huge his trade
food very important part
elliott finally made it to friday night dinner with the title of director
so the following week i went
and i became a pillow board member
led the pro-israel group to d_c_ attitude that you wish to internal went
for a been a possible
dot at dot n_r_a_ interest that is
became rabbi of park avenue senator
each of these individuals is now getting back to the jewish community
and to the world at large as leaders and benefactors
rabbi cosgrove leads his congregation on the properties side of manhattan they'll
have been is a major philanthropist whose foundation gives millions of
dollars a year to find educational projects in public schools and the
jewish community
emily is giving back to you
but when i do have free time
i tend to spend didn't you experienced activities
one of these programs is three g and line and u_s_-based group for the grand
total of holocaust survivors
through three g_m_ lying i've learned to tell the story of how my grandfather and
his family and survived the ghetto the death camps' and ultimately the second
world war
i recently went to brooklyn generations high school and told my family story to
a group of thirty tenth graders it was an unbelievable experience and i can't
wait to go back and he's again
as you can see
hello as truly enriched my life
and i just hope that i have given a little something back
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