The wealth of 30 people exceeds $1billion. He later transitioned into Jewish dad roles; he had played the patriarch on ABCs The Goldbergs for eight seasons when he died. Antisemitism Meets Transphobia. It also donated $20 million to accelerate the development of a Covid-19 treatment. The wealthiest Jews in Britain were born abroad, according to the Sunday Times Super-Rich list, published on Sunday. (Randy Brooke/WireImage). Lewis felt herself drawn to Judaism in her 20s and became a regular at synagogue after converting. (Gabriel Olsen/WireImage/Getty Images). And they have plenty more to go: they remain worth a collective $799 billion, by Forbes count. Turner, who has donated at least $300 million to other causes including land, water and species conservation through his own foundation, has said his U.N. contribution is the best investment Ive ever made.. In 2020, the San Diego school postponed its plan to rebrand itself Sanford National University after ProPublica reported that Sanford had been investigated for possible possession of child pornography. That would be Roman Abramovich, owner of Chelsea Football Club, who is ranked 107th overall with $12.4 billion. However, not all of them permanently reside in Israel. Its environmental conservation work has supported efforts to stop the loss of biodiversity. Director Joan Micklin Silver was most famous for telling two love Jewish stories of New Yorks Lower East Side, straddling both ends of the 20th century: . He has also given billions to the four charities set up by his three children and his late wife. May 1, 2021, 5:18 am. Here is the list of Jewish entries that Iculled from the Forbes list. Leer en espaol. In 2021, the Moore foundation awarded nearly $350 million in grants. The nations 25 biggest givers have donated a total of $169 billion over the course of their lifetimes, according to Forbes estimates. So he set about formulating a new system: Check immigration records against Nazi records. 5 their money goes exclusively to Republican candidates. Gifts included $443 million to environmental organizations from the The Bezos Earth Fund, $100 million to former president Barack Obama's foundation and $96 million to nonprofits helping homeless families through the Bezos Day One Fund. To republish, copy the HTML by clicking on the yellow button to the right; it includes our tracking pixel, all paragraph styles and hyperlinks, the author byline and credit to the Forward. In September 2020, Feeney and his wife Helga shuttered his foundation, the Atlantic Philanthropies, after it gave away the last of its assets. A former math professor before he founded quantitative trading hedge fund Renaissance Technologies in 1982, Simons has dedicated much of his philanthropic giving to STEM research and education. Seventeen of them have signed The Giving Pledge, promising to donate at least half their fortune to charity over their lifetimes or upon their deaths. The eBay founders Omidyar Group donates to causes around the world, including education opportunities in Africa and India, and relief for refugees in countries like South Sudan and Syria. The Sarajevo-born singer-songwriter gained wide acclaim for her efforts to preserve Sephardic Jewish culture and Ladino music, winning a prestigious National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2002. This is a list of individuals and couples who are U.S. citizens; as a result, we excluded extended families like the Waltons, controlling shareholders of Walmart, and excluded big givers like Hansjoerg Wyss, who lives in the U.S. but is a Swiss citizen. The influential New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm, hailed as one of the 20th centurys pioneers of New Journalism, didnt know she was Jewish until she was called an antisemitic slur in elementary school. Previously, Ballmer gave $50 million to the University of Oregon (Connies alma mater) in 2014 and gave $60 million to the computer science department at Harvard (his alma mater). The Oklahoma oil and banking baron is the largest philanthropist in his state. When Scott publishes an update on Medium, the nonprofit world pays attention. According to Israeli daily business newspaper TheMarker, Israel has seventy-one billionaires as of 2021, with one of the highest per capita rates in the world, at 6.7 billionaires for every million people. Preliminary surveys are sent to those who may qualify for the list. Amid the pandemic, many of Americas great philanthropists have opened their wallets to help halt the spread of Covid-19 and lessen its impact. Sanford has also given $150 million to La Jolla, California-based National University, and pledged another $350 million in donations in 2019. Their Michael & Susan Dell Foundation has given out $2.25 billion since it was founded in 1999 to focus on children living in urban poverty in the U.S., India and South Africa. Hostetter built a fortune as a cable TV pioneer and is working to give it away through his Boston-based Barr Foundation, which makes about $60 million in grants a year. The richest real estate mogul in the U.S., Bren has given more than $240 million to schools and universities in southern California, including Caltech and the University of Californias Santa Barbara and Irvine campuses. So far, Scott has distributed at least $8.6 billion in less than two years to 780-plus organizations, focusing on causes including racial justice, gender equality and public health. Ed Asner was an established character actor when he signed on to play the gruff TV station boss in The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1970. With between approximately 5,700,000 and 7,160,000 million Jews, the United States is home to what is considered the largest or second largest Jewish population in the world, depending on the sources cited and methods used. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. arrow_forward. Segal heralded a generation of Jewish actors who were unabashed about their Jewishness. To that end, we also do not include gifts that have been pledged but not yet paid out, or money given to donor-advised fundsopaque, tax-advantaged accounts that have neither disclosure nor distribution requirementsunless the giver shared details about the grants that were actually paid by such entities. (Dignity Memorial). * Wealth of the richest men who are of Jewish ancestry. (Jeffrey Markowitz/Sygma via Getty Images). He died in Los Angeles in January at 87. Just before Bezos flew in his Blue Origin rocket in July 2021 the Smithsonians National Air and Space Museum announced a $200 million gift from Bezos; the gift will be distributed over four years, according to reporting by MarketWatch. The 165 Jewish billionaires around the world have $812 billion in joint wealth, Forbes Israel reported on Thursday. In all, theyre worth an estimated $1.1 trillion. In a year also marked by turbulent politics, someincluding Zuckerberg and investor George Soroshave put big money behind pro-Democracy causes. Warren Buffett has been contributing $2 billion to $3 billion of Berkshire Hathaway stock a year to the foundation since 2006. (Si) Newhouse Jr. 4,500 81 New York publishing, 56 Micky Arison 4,300 60 Bal Harbour Carnival Cruises, 61 Ralph Lauren 4,200 70 New York fashion, 65 Lester Crown & family 4,000 84 Wilmette investments, 65 Richard LeFrak & family 4,000 64 New York real estate, 65 Donald Newhouse 4,000 79 Somerset County publishing, 65 Daniel Ziff 4,000 37 New York inheritance, hedge funds, 65 Dirk Ziff 4,000 45 New York inheritance, hedge funds, 65 Robert Ziff 4,000 43 New York inheritance, hedge funds, 77 Henry Kravis 3,800 65 New York leveraged buyouts, 77 Paul Milstein & family 3,800 87 New York Emigrant, real estate, 77 Samuel Zell 3,800 68 Chicago real estate, private equity, 84 Leonard N. Stern 3,600 71 New York real estate, 85 Stanley Druckenmiller 3,500 56 Pittsburgh hedge funds, 85 Bruce Kovner 3,500 64 New York hedge funds, 85 George Roberts 3,500 66 San Francisco leveraged buyouts, 97 Riley P. Bechtel 3,000 57 San Francisco engineering, construction**, 97 Stephen D. Bechtel Jr. 3,000 84 San Francisco engineering, construction**, 97 Leonard Lauder 3,000 76 New York Estee Lauder, 97 Theodore Lerner 3,000 84 Washington real estate, 97 Steven Spielberg 3,000 62 Pacific Palisades movies, 97 Warren Stephens 3,000 52 Little Rock Stephens Inc. **, 97 David Tepper 3,000 52 Milburn hedge funds, 110 Stephen Ross 2,900 69 New York real estate, 113 Daniel Och 2,800 48 New York hedge funds, 113 Haim Saban 2,800 65 Beverly Hills television, 123 Edgar M. Bronfman 2,500 80 New York liquor, 123 Ronald Lauder 2,500 65 New York Estee Lauder, 123 Mitchell Rales 2,500 53 Washington Danaher Corp **, 123 Steven Rales 2,500 58 Washington Danaher Corp **, 123 David Rubenstein 2,500 60 Bethesda leveraged buyouts, 139 Mark Cuban 2,400 51 Dallas Broadcast.com, 139 Malcolm Glazer & family 2,400 81 Palm Beach sports teams, real estate, 141 Steve Wynn 2,300 67 Las Vegas casinos, hotels **, 147 Tom Gores 2,200 45 Beverly Hills leveraged buyouts, 147 Bruce Wasserstein 2,200 61 New York Wasserstein Perella, Lazard, 158 Nicolas Berggruen 2,000 48 New York Investments, 158 Leon Black 2,000 58 New York leveraged buyouts, 158 William Gross 2,000 65 Laguna Beach bonds **, 158 Michael Milken 2,000 63 Los Angeles investments, 158 Sumner Redstone 2,000 86 Beverly Hills Viacom, 158 Leslie Wexner 2,000 72 New Albany Limited Brands, 158 Mark Zuckerberg 2,000 25 Palo Alto Facebook, 183 Stewart Rahr 1,950 63 New York Kinray, 193 Alan Casden 1,850 63 Beverly Hills real estate, 196 Thomas Pritzker 1,800 59 Chicago hotels, investments, 196 Jerry Speyer 1,800 69 New York real estate, 204 Israel Englander 1,700 61 New York hedge funds, 204 Penny Pritzker 1,700 50 Chicago hotels, investments, 204 Sheldon Solow 1,700 81 New York real estate, 212 Robert Friedland 1,650 59 Singapore mining, 212 Henry Samueli 1,650 55 Newport Beach Broadcom, 220 Thomas Friedkin 1,600 74 Houston Gulf States Toyota, 220 Alec Gores 1,600 56 Beverly Hills leveraged buyouts, 220 Irwin Jacobs 1,600 76 La Jolla Qualcomm, 220 Anthony Pritzker 1,600 48 Los Angeles hotels, investments, 220 Jay Robert Pritzker 1,600 44 Evanston hotels, investments, 230 John Morgridge 1,550 76 Portola Valley Cisco ** (NETA with Jewish Agency), 230 Isaac Perlmutter 1,550 67 Palm Beach Marvel, 236 Neil Bluhm 1,500 71 Chicago real estate, 236 Robert Kraft 1,500 68 Brookline New England Patriots, 236 Stephen Mandel 1,500 53 Greenwich hedge funds, 236 Daniel Pritzker 1,500 50 Marin County hotels, investments, 236 James Pritzker 1,500 58 Chicago hotels, investments, 236 Jean (Gigi) Pritzker 1,500 47 Chicago hotels, investments, 236 John Pritzker 1,500 56 San Francisco hotels, investments, 236 Karen Pritzker 1,500 51 New Haven hotels, investments, 236 Linda Pritzker 1,500 55 St. Ignatius hotels, investments, 236 Marc Rich 1,500 74 Meggen commodities, 236 Lynn Schusterman 1,500 70 Tulsa oil & gas, investments, 236 John Sperling 1,500 88 Phoenix Apollo Group, 236 Mortimer Zuckerman 1,500 72 New York real estate, media, 272 George Lindemann & family 1,450 73 Palm Beach investments, 272 Bernard Marcus 1,450 80 Atlanta Home Depot, 277 S. Daniel Abraham 1,400 85 Palm Beach Slim-Fast, 277 John Arrillaga 1,400 72 Palo Alto real estate, 277 Alfred Mann 1,400 83 Los Angeles medical devices, 277 Michael Moritz 1,400 55 Mountain View venture capital, 277 Michael Price 1,400 57 Far Hills investments, 277 Tamir Sapir 1,400 62 New York real estate, 277 Alfred Taubman 1,400 85 Bloomfield Hills real estate, 289 Ken Fisher 1,350 58 Woodside Money management **, 289 David Gottesman 1,350 83 Rye investments, 289 Marc Lasry 1,350 49 New York hedge funds (92nd Street Y), 296 Edmund Ansin 1,300 73 Miami Sunbeam Broadcasting, 296 Ron Baron 1,300 66 New York money management, 296 Leon Charney 1,300 68 New York Real estate, 296 Glenn Dubin 1,300 52 New York hedge funds, 296 Donald Fisher 1,300 81 San Francisco Gap, 296 Doris Fisher 1,300 78 San Francisco Gap, 296 Jeremy Jacobs Sr. 1,300 69 East Aurora sports concessions, 296 Gary Michelson 1,300 60 Los Angeles medical patents, 317 Arthur Blank 1,250 67 Atlanta Home Depot, 317 Jeffrey Greene 1,250 54 Miami Beach real estate, investments, 317 Thomas H. Lee 1,250 65 New York leveraged buyouts, 317 Herbert Simon 1,250 74 Indianapolis real estate, 317 Peter Sperling 1,250 49 Phoenix Apollo Group, 326 John E. Abele 1,200 72 Shelburne healthcare **, 326 Norman Braman 1,200 77 Miami art, car dealerships, 326 John Fisher 1,200 48 San Francisco Gap, 326 Nicholas Pritzker 1,200 65 Chicago hotels, investments, 326 Alexander Rovt 1,200 57 Brooklyn fertilizer, 326 Margaret Whitman 1,200 53 Atherton Ebay, 341 Leon Cooperman 1,150 66 Short Hills hedge funds, 341 Barry Diller 1,150 67 New York IAC/InterActiveCorp, 341 Joseph Mansueto 1,150 53 Chicago Morningstar **, 347 Marc Benioff 1,100 45 San Francisco Salesforce.com, 347 A. James Clark 1,100 81 Easton Construction **, 347 Robert Fisher 1,100 56 San Francisco Gap, 347 Alan Gerry 1,100 80 Liberty cable television**, 347 James Irsay 1,100 50 Carmel Indianapolis Colts (Father, Bob was Jewish), 347 Michael Krasny 1,100 56 Highland Park CDW Corp 3, 347 Daniel Snyder 1,100 44 Potomac Washington Redskins, 347 Henry Swieca 1,100 52 New York hedge funds, 366 Peter Lewis 1,050 75 Coconut Grove Progressive Corp, 366 Nelson Peltz 1,050 67 Bedford Investments, 371 William Fisher 1,000 52 San Francisco Gap, 371 Pincus Green 1,000 74 Jerusalem commodities, 371 Jeffry Picower 1,000 67 Palm Beach investments, 371 Steven Schonfeld 1,000 50 Westbury Proprietary Trading, 371 Walter Shorenstein & family 1,000 94 San Francisco real estate, 371 Evgeny (Eugene) Shvidler 1,000 45 London Millhouse LLC, 371 Charles Zegar 1,000 61 New York Bloomberg LP, 394 Jeffrey Lurie 980 58 Haverford Philadelphia Eagles, 396 Nancy Lerner 960 49 Cleveland inheritance, 396 Norma Lerner 960 73 Cleveland inheritance, 396 Randolph Lerner 960 47 Cleveland inheritance, list of the countrys 400 richest citizens, Police, security agencies advise Jews to be on alert ahead of planned National Day of Hate on Shabbat, American citizen killed in latest West Bank shooting amid escalating violence, This Orthodox Jewish model made history at New York Fashion Week. 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