Judaism and Business. Jews Businessman

The Subject on Judaism consists of two parts:

1- Introduction to Judaism

1. Introduction to Judaism
2. History of Judaism
3. Sacred Books. Tanakh and Torah
4. Ethical Principles of Judaism
5. Ten Commandments
6. Contributions of Judaism to Global Ethics
7. Judaism in the World
8. Case Study: The Richest Jews in the World
9. Philanthropy and Judaism
10. Influence of Judaism on Western Civilization

2- Jewish Businessman.

1. Safra: The richest Banker in the World (Brazil)
2. Wendy Appelbaum (South Africa)
3. Issad Rebrab (Algeria)
4. Other Jewish Businesspeople

The objectives of the subject “Judaism” are the following:

1. To learn the fundamentals of Judaism
2. To understand the Ethical Principles of Judaism
3. To learn about the influence of Judaism on business
4. To analyze the figures of Jewish Businessman

Sample - Ethical Principles of Judaism

The Subject “Judaism: Ethics and Business” is included within the curriculum of the following academic programs at EENI Global Business School:

Masters: International Business, Religions and Business.

Doctorate: Global Ethics, Religions, and International Business, World Trade.

Languages: (or Judaísmo Judaisme).

Christianity and Islam can somehow be considered as inheritor religions of Judaism. The first, with Jesus Christ (who was Jewish), emerged as an alternative and renewal to Judaism while Islam (with Muhammad) arose partly as a reaction to Hellenization of Christianity. Although we must remember that for Muslims, Islam always existed.

In some way, Western culture, our way of seeing life, is indebted to Judaism. Great figures of Western history as Jesus of Nazareth, Baruch Spinoza, Karl Marx, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Woody Allen or Steven Spielberg were Jews.

Despite their small number, only 15 million Jews worldwide - 0.2% of the World's population -(mainly in Israel with 6 million and the United States with 5.4 million), its influence on International Business it is very outstanding.

1. According to the Forbes magazine, of approximately 1,500 billionaires, 165 are Jews (11%) estimated that in total may represent a wealth of about 812,000 million dollars, seventeen of these Jewish billionaires live in Israel
2. The United States is the country with more Jews billionaires. There are also prominent Jews billionaires in Russia, Brazil, France, Spain, Ukraine, Canada, Monaco and the UK, with investments in strategic sectors: petroleum, telecommunications, social networking, steel, banking, transportation, or real estate
3. The philanthropic Initiative of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, “Giving Pledge” consists of the people of different religions: Christians, Jewish, Hinduism, or Muslims, and for agnostics and atheists. However, the overwhelming majority is Jewish

Judaism is a historical and prophetic religion, with more than 4,000 years old, at this time Egyptian Civilization had built monumental pyramids, was the era of the vast empire of Summer and Akkad. However, Jews were only a small wandering tribe. Jewish people were able to reach a very high spiritual level, an effort that has continued until today. Judaism is also a prophetic movement.

Jewish people have been persecuted throughout the history. In almost all nations have been expelled, limited their rights or even have been annihilated (genocide). They were deported in the Roman Empire, in Spain (Catholic Monarchs), Portugal, England, France, or Germany. Ukrainian Cossacks massacred them (Chmielnicki tragedy, perhaps 200,000 exiled and murdered), Russia suffered radical violence called Pogroms (devastation in Russian) especially in the nineteenth century.

However, the high point of the anti-Semitism was Hitler's Nazi Holocaust, the Shoah (the catastrophe in Hebrew): 6 million dead, among them 1.5 million children were killed. Just think of the name used by the Nazi, the “final solution,” is chilling.

In the late nineteenth century, Theodor Herzl created an international political movement, Zionism, which sought the creation of a Jewish state in Israel; it was necessary to encourage Jewish immigration to Israel, the Promised Land. In 1948, the “State of Israel” is proclaimed.

The word kosher means “fit” or “appropriate” according to Jewish dietary law (kashrut). Kosher foods must meet strict standards regarding ingredients, preparation, and the separation of categories such as meat and dairy.

The Israeli tech sector, driven by the Jewish culture of innovation, attracts $10 billion annually in foreign direct investment (Startup Nation Central, 2024). Companies like Intel are taking advantage of this ecosystem.

Jewish diaspora networks facilitate global trade, especially in the financial and diamond sectors, and 30% of the global diamond trade is linked to Jewish communities (Rapaport, 2023).

Sample - Safra family (Brazil - Judaism)