The one question Madoff’s victims forgot to ask

By Mark Eshman
Published on April 24, 2013

Israel to ramp up Birthright investment

Published on January 6, 2011

Israel's government announced it would more than double its investment in the popular Birthright Israel program. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the announcement Thursday night before 3,000 program participants in Jerusalem, The Jerusalem Post reported. "My government will give more than double its investment in Birthright, and over the next few years we will invest more than $100 million in Birthright," said Netanyahu, according to the Post. "Together with private donations we can increase the number of people to 50,000 a year."

10 Tips from Value Investor Howard Marks

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on July 13, 2010

A Swindlers [Reading] List: The Three Best Stories on Madoff

By Rob Eshman
Published on March 13, 2009

Pyramid power (not)

By Steve Greenberg
Published on December 24, 2008

Can you say fiduciary duty? Jewish nonprofits must follow new rules

Published on December 24, 2008

As the community looks forward, it is imperative that the oversight of investments be executed in a manner that meets the highest fiduciary standards.

Investment ‘diamond deal’ ends as four jailed on kidnap charges

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on October 15, 2008

"This may have started as a dispute," said district attorney spokeswoman Jane Robison, "but we have evidence that he was roughed up and held against his will for a ransom of $4.5 million."

Steven Spielberg dreams anew

By Tom Teicholz
Published on October 1, 2008

What does it mean that Spielberg's other founding partners, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg, are no longer with the company?

Northern Israel needs investment to bolster it—- security and development are linked

Published on August 14, 2008

The graffiti on the Galilean bomb shelter that greeted Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wasted no words: "Wake up Sharon, Olmert's in a coma."

Israel's clean tech advances attract foreign investors' green

By Dina Kraft
Published on July 15, 2008

Spurred by skyrocketing oil prices and growing interest in energy alternatives, a wave of new companies and investors are scouting out new clean technologies in Israel.

Das Happy Kapital

By Rob Eshman
Published on May 3, 2007

Just another 30 seconds at the Milken Institute Global Conference, the annual gathering that attracts everybody you've ever seen on CSPAN, the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour and FOX, including the owner of FOX, Rupert Murdoch -- I bumped into him coming out of the men's room.

Jews join the quest for space commerce

By Adam Wills
Published on November 2, 2006

Commercial space interests are now playing a critical role in the dawn of the second space age -- one built on business ventures and international cooperation. Instead of Hilton and Pan Am, the corporate names associated with the commercialization of space include Budget Suites and Virgin.

R.E. Hard Crash? Soft Landing? Bursting Balloon? Leaking Balloon?

By Marc Ballon
Published on August 31, 2006

The Jewish Journal spoke to Cohen about the recent reversal in the local housing market.

Warren Buffett’s Jewish Connection

By Chanan Tigay
Published on June 1, 2006

Warren Buffett is not a Jew; in fact, he describes himself as an agnostic. Still, the billionaire investment guru, who made big news in May when his Berkshire Hathaway corporation bought an 80 percent share in the Israeli metalworks conglomerate, Iscar, for $4 billion, for years has been making his mark on the U.S. Jewish community back home -- although sometimes in a roundabout way.

Sondheim Knows How to Book ‘Em

By Robert David Jaffee
Published on February 16, 2006

Harry Sondheim, a retired criminal prosecutor for the L.A. County D.A.'s office, was traveling in Holland when he simply noticed an artifact that appealed to him. "They had a museum, Der Weg, which means the Weighing House. They had an artist named Bicart. I bought some postcards with depictions of Jewish ceremonies on them. You can't buy those postcards any longer."

Taking—and Giving—Stock

By Michael Kleinman
Published on January 12, 2006

Move over fountain pens. If the Blue and White Fund has its way, the trend in bar and bat mitzvah gift giving might be instruments of the financial kind.

A Developing Reputation

By Sandee Brawarsky
Published on December 29, 2005

The two young, sari-clad women, one in blue and one in orange, stand in the thatched-roof meeting hall, take hold of the microphone and join their voices.
"We don't need any fancy materials," they croon by heart. "What we need is just some food to live. We don't ask for a refrigerator, a TV or a car. We just need some small capital to start a business."
The audience of women in the village of Alamarai Kuppam applaud with enthusiasm. The few men, seated or hovering around the edges, are more circumspect, but they, too, nod approvingly.
Call it women's lib, post-tsunami-India style.
The outpouring of financial support that followed the 2004 tsunami has accelerated efforts to improve the lives of rural women -- an initiative that goes well beyond helping families recover from the tsunami.

Wanted: 1 Rich Jew

By Rob Eshman
Published on June 23, 2005

I have a friend who may come into a large sum of money. Not millions, but tens of millions. Sometimes, she told me, shedaydreams about all the charities and causes she'll donate to.
"That's what I want to be, one of those people who sits around all day and gives out money," she said.

Little-Known Givers Have Big Hearts

By Tom Tugend
Published on January 27, 2005

Always an ardent patriot, after Sept. 11, Robert Rosenthal felt strongly that he had to do something constructive. When he learned that in contrast to USO shows for troops overseas, there was no similar entertainment at stateside bases, he suggested to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that something be done to close the gap.

Ask Wendy

By Wendy Belzberg
Published on February 27, 2003

Ask Wendy

Seeing Green in Israel’s Economy

By Marc Ballon
Published on December 5, 2002

Shlomo Eplboim sees green in the arid landscape that is Israel.

So confident is he of the Holy Land's future that the 30-year-old financial adviser has helped launch a new mutual fund that will invest solely in Israeli high-tech, health care, biotech and other companies.

Gold’s Hot Tip:Invest in Israel

By Tom Tugend
Published on April 11, 2002

For people who like to make money -- and who take the long-range view -- now is the time to invest in the Israeli economy, despite the current situtation, according to Stanley Gold, president and CEO of Shamrock Holdings, the investment arm of the Roy Disney family.

For some time, Shamrock has been the largest private investor in Israel. With a new capital-growth fund of $170 million fully subscribed, of which $65 million is earmarked for Israel, Gold is looking for new opportunities.

"The combined effects of the intifada and the world recession have stopped the kind of Israeli economic growth we saw in the mid-1990s, and a lot of investors got scared and ran away," Gold says. "We look on this as an opportunity to buy at bargain prices and reap the rewards later."

Israel Bonds

Published on October 7, 1999

Israel Bonds: They're not just for bar and bat mitzvahs anymore.

Wall Street’s Wild Ride

By Nancy Sokoler Steiner
Published on September 17, 1998

With unpredictability the only certainty about the current market, opinions about the best course of action vary, but the consensus seems to be "stay the course."