124: Wartime Diaries - Doron Krakow

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🗓️ 26 November 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

This war is a humbling experience for us all. People — no matter who they are or what they normally do — are simply trying to pitch in wherever they can. We’ve thus seen ex-generals jump into their private cars and go save civilians from the carnage of October 7th, former ministers and senior politicians volunteer to pick cherry tomatoes on farms near Gaza, and rock stars jam for a single soldier on an army base.

Likewise, Doron Krakow — the President and CEO of the JCC Association of North America, who in normal times runs an organization that employs tens of thousands of professionals — immediately got on a plane and came to Israel in order to do one thing: Be a grandpa.

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0:00.0	I don't view what my place here as being all that extraordinary. I'm just another grandfather
0:06.4	looking after his grandchild while his son is off at war. Hey listeners, it's Mishi. So as you know,
0:15.6	during these incredibly difficult days, we're trying to bring you voices we're hearing among and around us. These aren't
0:24.4	stories, they're just quick conversations, or postcards really, that try to capture slivers of
0:30.3	life right now. This war is a humbling experience for us all. People, no matter who they are or what they
0:39.6	normally do, are just trying to pitch in wherever they can. So we've seen ex-generals
0:45.9	jump into their private cars and go save civilians from the carnage of October 7th. We've
0:51.2	seen former ministers and senior politicians volunteer to pick cherry tomatoes on farms near Gaza, and we've seen former ministers and senior politicians volunteer to pick cherry tomatoes
0:55.7	on farms near Gaza, and we've seen rock stars jam for a single soldier on an army base.
1:03.0	Likewise, Doron Krakow, the president and CEO of the JCC Association of North America,
1:09.3	who in normal times runs an organization that
1:12.0	employs tens of thousands of professionals, immediately got on a plane and came to Israel in order
1:18.4	to do one thing, be a grandpa. Our senior producer, Yochai Meital, spoke to him.
1:26.3	My name is Daron Krakow in my professional life. I'm the
1:29.5	president and CEO of JCC Association of North America. And on the personal side, I'm the proud
1:36.1	father of three sons, including a 26-year-old who is at San Khan in Miloim, and the father of my first grandchild who was born on the 23rd of August.
1:47.5	Oh, wow.
1:48.0	Mazzal tov.
1:48.7	Tadda.
1:49.4	And usually you live in the States?
1:53.2	My wife and I live in Tenefly, New Jersey.
1:55.7	And as I mentioned, I became a grandfather for the first time here in Israel in August. So my wife and I
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