{"id":658639,"date":"2010-02-08T22:24:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T03:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.rj.org,2010:\/rac\/\/2.2434"},"modified":"2010-02-08T22:29:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T03:29:40","slug":"davos-shabbos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/658639","title":{"rendered":"Davos Shabbos"},"content":{"rendered":"

I must admit, I’ve always kind of wanted to go to the World
\nEconomic Forum<\/a> in Davos, Switzerland. 
\n<\/span>The sessions are amazing, the location lovely, and all the coolest kids
\n(Nicolas Sarkozy, Muhammad Yunus, Bill Clinton) are there.<\/p>\n

I never really thought much about the Jewish side of Davos,
\nor even that there is a Jewish side. 
\n<\/span>Perhaps that’s why I enjoyed Daniel Gross’ great
\nreport<\/a> on a memorable Shabbat dinner at Davos. <\/span>(It was published on Tablet:
\nA New Read on Jewish Life<\/a><\/i>, an interesting new(ish) website where I find
\nsomething interesting nearly every time I look at it.) Gross writes:<\/p>\n

\n

My table represented something of a cross section of Davos: the editor of<\/i> Foreign Policy,
\ntwo venture capitalists, a London-based executive at Google, the head
\nof a large French industrial concern, a young management consultant.
\nOne table over was what I called the adult table–the head of one of the
\nworld’s largest private equity firms, an undersecretary of state, one
\nof the best-known Jewish philanthropists. In many ways, it was a
\ntypical Davos event–high-level chattering, the exchanging of business
\ncards.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read the whole piece here.<\/a> Next year maybe I’ll bring the challah….<\/p>\n

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