This is a partial list of notable Jewish American business executives. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans. |
Trip Hawkins - EA sports
The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations is the umbrella organization for the American Jewish community. Comprising 50 national Jewish organizations, it was founded in 1956 to develop a consensus voice among Jewish organizations, especially to the U.S. government.
Charles Bronfman, is a Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist and is a member of the Canadian Jewish Bronfman family. With an estimated net worth of $2.5 billion in 2023, Bronfman was ranked by Forbes as the 1,217th wealthiest person in the world.
Lester Crown is an American businessman and is the son of Chicago financier Henry Crown, who created the Material Service Corporation with two brothers in 1919, which merged with General Dynamics in 1959.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) is an international news agency and wire service that primarily covers Judaism- and Jewish-related topics and news. Described as the "Associated Press of the Jewish media", JTA serves Jewish and non-Jewish newspapers and press around the world as a syndication partner. Founded in 1917, it is world Jewry's oldest and most widely-read wire service.
Stephen Claar Swid was an American businessman and investor. He served as the chairman and chief executive officer of SESAC, Inc., one of the three performing rights organizations in the US.
Salman Schocken or Shlomo Zalman Schocken was a German Jewish publisher, and co-founder of the large Kaufhaus Schocken chain of department stores in Germany. Stripped of his citizenship and forced to sell his company by the German government, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1934, where he purchased the newspaper Haaretz.
Andrew Tisch is an American businessman, who is the co-chair of Loews Corporation, the company founded by his father Laurence Tisch and uncle Preston Robert Tisch.
Michael David Evans is an American author, journalist, and commentator. Evans has written books and has provided analysis and commentary on Middle East affairs. He founded and serves as the head of many politically conservative Christian organizations.
Robert Singer is a businessman, and chairman of Spero Impact Solution. He is a volunteer senior executive of several diplomatic, Jewish, and educational nonprofits and initiatives, including Center for Jewish Impact (Chairman), Alumot Or, SASA Setton, the Anières Program (co-founder), Combat Antisemitism Movement, and Israel Venture Network.
French Jews in Israel are immigrants and descendants of the immigrants of the French Jewish communities, who now reside within the state of Israel. They numbered over 200,000 as of 2012.
Tzameret Fuerst is an Israeli-American social entrepreneur. She is the co-founder and former CEO of Circ MedTech. Her company is the developer of PrePex, a medical device for voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) of adults used in sub-Saharan Africa to prevent the spread of HIV.
David Amar (1920–2000) was a Moroccan businessman, leader of the Moroccan Jewish community, politician, and philanthropist.
Yoav Z. Chelouche is an Israeli businessman, a managing partner of Tel Aviv-based venture capital firm Aviv Venture Capital. In 1995–2001, Chelouche served as CEO and President of Scitex Corporation. He sits on the board of directors of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE), Tower Semiconductor (Towerjazz) and Check Point Software Technologies., and was co-chairman of Israel Advanced Technology Industries (IATI).
The recorded history of the Jews in Angola stretches from the Middle Ages to modern times. A very small community of Jews lives in Angola mostly in the capital city of Luanda with a handful scattered elsewhere of mixed origins and backgrounds. There are also a number of transitory Israeli businesspeople living in Angola.
Aerospace pioneer Simon Ramo, father of America's intercontinental ballistic missile system and son of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, has died at 103.
A Salt Lake City native whose family traces its history to Jewish "conversos," who converted to Christianity in Inquisition-era Spain
Amoco was, as local long-timers will recall, a retailer begun from scratch by a Russian Jewish immigrant who started selling gasoline from a horse-drawn cart in Baltimore in 1910.
Meyer married Barbara at Keneseth Israel synagogue in 1852
He came from an old and well-established Jewish family
When he thinks about baseball, Larry Baer also thinks about being Jewish
I [Greenstein] still had a connection to Jewish history and being traditionally and ethically Jewish.
Ami James, an Israeli-born tattoo artist in Miami, who told Heeb that he is regularly asked how he can incise marks on himself, since Jews are commanded not to do so
(0:37) James: "I'm a Jew"
I played football [...] at [...] Harvard, where I was the first jewish captain
[...] "But look," Levien said, "I'm Jewish -- I had my bar mitzvah in Israel [...]"
[...] "I'm the first Jew, ex-con, short seller the world has ever seen," Minkow says.
Others include Daniel Yergin, an authority on the role energy plays in international affairs...
The Bar Mitzvahs of Howard Birndorf [...] will be observed
Mann was born in Portland, Ore., to a Jewish immigrant family.
Martin Rothblatt was raised by observant Jewish parents in a working-class suburb of San Diego; his father was a dentist. His mother, Rosa Lee, says she always believed her first child was destined for greatness.
Arthur and his brothers [ Mortimer and Raymond ], the children of Jewish immigrants from Galicia and Poland, grew up in Brooklyn during the Depression.
Abovitz comes from an Orthodox Jewish background and was planning to leave work early to observe the Sabbath
Aron Ain, CEO of Kronos, [...] will speak on how he integrates Jewish values into his business life in a talk entitled, 'Jewish Values and Leading a Billion-Dollar Company.'
He was missing his wife, a neurologist who had stayed back home, and as a traditional Jew with the high holidays looming, he felt utterly alone.
Failure would be new to the Rosens. They were born into a strict Jewish household in New Orleans
Let's send the Jewish gay guy!" Altman said. "That'll work!
Jewish cloud computing pioneer and wife purchase media property from Meredith Corp., joining ranks of tech moguls snapping up legacy publications
Kaplan's attorneys explained that Kaplan had long thought of relocating to Israel by virtue of his Jewish birthright, but offered no explanation for the phony Peruvian documents.
Levchin was born and raised in Kiev, Ukraine, a Jew living under Soviet rule for 16 years.
Rad is an L.A.-born Jewish-Persian-American whose parents emigrated from Iran in the 1970s and made a mint in the American consumer electronics business. He grew up as part of the close-knit Persian community in Beverly Hills.
The Indians do predate us," Adelson said. "But I'm Jewish, and we have been discriminated against a lot longer than the Indians have been
"I'm a Jewish guy from Brooklyn [...]," Mr. Binder said
His family, Sephardic Jews who emigrated from Syria to Argentina in the 1920s, had a successful textile business.
[The Forward] Has anyone ever made your Jewishness an issue in your business dealings? [Faena] No, [...]
Bill Miller, Jewish and Russian-born, was one of those larger-than-life, self-made Americans.
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Izak Senbahar, also Jew of Iraqi origin
She (Victoria) tossed rose petals up and down the aisle throughout the traditional Jewish ceremony
Most of the hotel builders were Jewish Americans: Sidney Wyman, Al Gottesman, and Jake Gottleib with the early tears of the Dunes[ permanent dead link ]
Because he sensed his career might be sidetracked once people knew he was Jewish, Michael Weinberg changed his professional name to Michael Wynn, in honor of Ed Wynn, a popular comedian of the era
With a wife and children to support, he [Rosenberg] aided the World War II effort by working as an electrician at Bethlehem Steel, where he became the first Jewish union representative