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A bold proposal for discovering relevance in Judaism and ensuring its survival, from a pioneering social activist, business leader, and fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force God Is in the Crowd is an original and provocative blueprint for Judaism in the twenty-first century. Presented through the lens of Tal Keinan's unusual personal story, it a sobering analysis of the threat to Jewish continuity. As the Jewish people has become concentrated in just two hubs - America and Israel - it has lost the subtle code of governance that endowed Judaism with dynamism and relevance in the age of Diaspora. This code, as Keinan explains, is derived from Francis Galton's "wisdom of crowds," in which a group's collective intelligence, memory, and even spirituality can be dramatically different, and often stronger, than that of any individual member's.
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TAL KEINAN is an American-born entrepreneur and social activist. He is the co-founder of Clarity Capital, an asset-management firm with offices in New York and Tel Aviv, and Chairman of Koret Israel Economic Development Fund, Israel's largest non-profit lender to small and micro-businesses. Keinan is one of the handful of new immigrants in Israel's history who graduated from Israel's Air Force Academy; he served as a fighter pilot in the Israel Air Force for a total of eighteen years, including reserve service. Keinan is active in a number of social causes in Israel and in the Jewish world and sits on the Boards of Directors of the Steinhardt Foundation and the Heseg Fund. Tal is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and Chairman of the YPO Intercontinental Chapter. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tel Aviv University and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Harvard Business School. Tal and his wife, Amber, have three daughters.
