I must admit, I’ve always kind of wanted to go to the World
Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
The sessions are amazing, the location lovely, and all the coolest kids
(Nicolas Sarkozy, Muhammad Yunus, Bill Clinton) are there.
I never really thought much about the Jewish side of Davos,
or even that there is a Jewish side.
Perhaps that’s why I enjoyed Daniel Gross’ great
report on a memorable Shabbat dinner at Davos. (It was published on Tablet:
A New Read on Jewish Life, an interesting new(ish) website where I find
something interesting nearly every time I look at it.) Gross writes:
My table represented something of a cross section of Davos: the editor of Foreign Policy,
two venture capitalists, a London-based executive at Google, the head
of a large French industrial concern, a young management consultant.
One table over was what I called the adult table–the head of one of the
world’s largest private equity firms, an undersecretary of state, one
of the best-known Jewish philanthropists. In many ways, it was a
typical Davos event–high-level chattering, the exchanging of business
cards.
Read the whole piece here. Next year maybe I’ll bring the challah….