Monday, September 18, 2017
Unorthodox CEO Reinvigorates Decades-Old Jewish Charity
Despite his years behind a university lectern, David Schizer isn’t one to speechify.
So he spoke for only a few minutes at a recent gathering of young Jews hosted by the international-aid charity he runs, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, or JDC. Then he opened the floor to questions.
One of the first came from a dark-haired woman seated at the far end of the circle of roughly 30 people. "I apologize if this is a little probing," she said with some hesitation, "but prior to your time here at JDC, were you Jewishly involved, and if so, how?" . . .