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Stanley Gold

Stanley P. Gold is President and Chief Executive Officer of Shamrock Holdings, Inc., a privately owned Burbank, California-based investment company which sponsors and operates 5 separate investment funds (two private equity funds; two real estate funds and an activist/governance fund in public securities). He is a founder and chairman of a new educational and advocacy Israel-Diaspora partnership, “Freedom Of Religion for Israel” and of its Israeli counterpart, “Hiddush – For Freedom of Religion and Equality.” A native of Los Angeles, Stanley graduated from UCLA with an AB in Political Science, received his JD from USC, and attended Cambridge University in England for postgraduate work. He has been a member of the Board of Governors of the HUC-JIR; past Chairman of the Board of Trustees of USC; Chairman of Board of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles; board member of the USC Law Center Board of Councilors; and member of the USC Keck School of Medicine Board of Overseers.

Religious Freedom in Israel: A Global Jewish Priority

Stanley Gold, Ariel Picard, Uri Regev

Global History and Culture, Israel

The overwhelming majority of Israeli Jews and world Jewry support religious freedom and pluralism in Israel. Lack of full religious freedom and equality adversely affects the lives of countless Israeli citizens from birth to death. Most known recent areas of concern include: Who is a Jew, the right to marry and divorce, gender segregation (such as public bus lines and the Kotel) and the threat to Israel’s economy and security emanating from the mass exemption of Yeshiva students from military service and their non-participation in the work force among others. In this session, we will outline the key challenges to religious freedom and pluralism in Israel and will discuss why this is a global Jewish priority and how we can make Israel’s promise for” freedom of religion and conscience” a reality.

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