Rabbi Eitiel Goldwicht, Founder and President of VLU Group

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Wow, wow, what an honor to be here at the Jerusalem conference. Unbelievable in the presence. Uh unbelievable Rav Doron Peretz is here with us, the president of Mizrachi Olami, Dudu Sa'ada, the man kind of Be'er Sheva. To be here it's really special. You know, as a Jerusalem native, eighth generation Yerushalmi, but growing up in Manhattan, to be speaking at a Jerusalem conference in Manhattan is the first and it's very exciting to be here. Everyone in this room and everyone who spoke here tonight wants to create a social change for the Jewish people. Either a social change internally, how can we bring the Jewish people together? How can we bridge the divide? Or a social change which speaks externally? How can we get the rest of the world to truly understand who we are and what we stand for? What is the best way to create social impact and a social change? Shinui Todah Tsiburi. There are three ways how we make social change. Number one is with politics. Number two is with media. Most of the people who spoke here today and most of us in general tend to focus on politics and media because the change is much more quick. It's quicker when you focus on let's change the politics. Let's influence through media and through different ways we're going to tell the public what is the right way to act or to think or to behave. But there's a problem with these two channels. By default, they are divisive. They divide us because each one of those

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2. 0:31Manhattan is the first and it's very exciting to be here. Everyone in this room and…
3. 1:34on politics and media because the change is much more quick. It's quicker when you focus…
4. 2:04speaks to the base. I speak to my followers, to my voters. I speak to my…
5. 3:06to bring together the Jewish people in a business way that is connected to core of…
6. 4:06back? The people who are just talking about business and are not talking about tradition. So,…
7. 4:36There's a midrash that says that latid lavo in the future atidim umot haolam lavo lasot…
8. 5:40CEO of Timberland. And he's the founder of Maoz. And he said, "I ran a commercial…
9. 6:11tradition, that are connected to the ancient Jewish wisdom, and that are proud of their heritage.…
10. 7:11in the whole world per capita. We're have entered a new dawn. The way to bring…

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