Guest Article
by David Bendory
Wall Street is a rather odd place for a rabbi to work. It isn’t that there aren’t a lot of Jews there, or even that there aren’t a lot of religious Jews; this is, after all, New York City. But there are very few rabbis who make their living in corporate America. In this odd place, a rabbi somehow manages to attract all sorts of interesting questions.Over my last 13 years at a multi-national investment bank, I have had unaffiliated Jews ask me what to do when a grandparent died; I have explained the proper etiquette for attending a bris or Bar Mitzvah; I can’t count how many times I’ve explained what it means to keep kosher. But by far the most interesting question came up only recently.Abou click here to continue