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Ari Bergmann | Why The Jewish Community Is Facing A MAJOR Financial CRISIS

Meaningful People

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Education, Judaism, Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 24 August 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Dr. Ari Bergmann is the founder and Managing Principal of Penso Advisors, LLC, a New York-based global macro and risk management boutique specializing in derivatives structuring/trading and systemic risk mitigation. Prior to founding the firm in 1997, Dr. Bergmann was a Senior Managing Director at Bankers Trust. 

 

Ari received a BTL from Ner Israel Rabbinical College in 1981 and furthered his graduate studies at many prestigious Yeshivot in Israel. He holds an MA and Ph.D. in Comparative Religion from Columbia University, where he studied with Professors Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and David Weiss Halivni. Ari is an Adjunct Professor at Yeshiva University and before coming to YU, he taught at Columbia University and at the University of Pennsylvania. Ari lectures extensively in Israel, Brazil, Europe and the US on topics of Finance, Talmud and Jewish Thought. In this episode Ari discuesses lessons from the Talmud, and how money is fundraised and spent in the Orthodox Jewish Community 

 

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Organizations, great amazing organizations, are spending insane sums of money to make barbecues and dinners,

0:09.0

for people to come to raise more money, and that's just the culture that we created and it wouldn't it be an

0:14.8

amazing thing if that organization that is using the money for incredible things

0:19.8

didn't have to spend $500,000 to raise $3 million?

0:24.4

What's the medicine to get away from that?

0:27.6

How do we break that down?

0:29.2

See, I'm very much and I've involved in something to call social change.

0:33.6

Social change never comes from the top.

0:35.8

I just had a meeting like a thought group on social change.

0:40.5

But social change is very important.

0:42.4

That's a question, but you never change is very important. Okay, that's a question.

0:43.0

But you never change on the top.

0:45.0

Change is always grassroots from the bottom,

0:48.0

imperceptively.

0:49.0

A stalker that spends all that money to create, Do I respect such a talk? Probably not.

0:57.0

Hey, Nachie Gordon here and you're listening to the Meaningful People Podcast. Got an amazing episode for you.

1:05.0

So that trailer, oh boy, it gets real.

1:08.0

We discuss a lot about Jewish finances, but are we spending too much?

1:12.0

Is this sustainable for the future of our kids? Is it possible to continue on this way? Plus a lot more in this episode with Ari Bergman, who is a gem of human being? You don't know him? That's fine. Some people do, some people

1:24.3

don't, but listen to this episode. You're in love every second. This episode is sponsored by

1:28.2

my friend Isaac Newman, the Zicharnichmass his mother,

1:30.9

Kama Peril Malcola, but al-Leba,ri-Leb the schuss for everything derived from a step-sup should be a suss for your mother,

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