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RELIGIOUS ZIONISTS OF AMERICA
Jonas’
Jerusalem Call Center
Reaches Out To Americans
By Tim Boxer
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a time when so many American companies are outsourcing their
services—such as basing customer service in such diverse
locations as India, China and Russia—Howard Jonas
chose Jerusalem as his offshore site of technical support for New
Jersey-based IDT telecommunications company.
His new enterprise, IDT Call Center, which
employs 300 persons, is becoming the largest private employer in
Jerusalem. They called numerous Mizrahi supporters in the U.S. and
raised $60,000 for Yeshivot Hesder in Israel.
For that Jonas was honored by Religious
Zionists of America at the Marriott Marquis on Broadway.
RZA president Rabbi Simcha Krauss also
paid tribute to Rabbi Arthur and Elisabeth Schneier
of Park East Synagogue, Ulka and Julius Sommer, and Rose
and Henry Moskowitz.
Rabbi Yona Metzger, Israel’s
youngest chief rabbi, was the keynote speaker at the dinner. He
was proud to be the first chief rabbi to be born in Israel and the
first to have served in the tank corps.
Rabbi Krauss presented Jonas with a letter by
British philanthropist Sir Moses Montefiore signed in 1864.
The letter was obtained on eBay.
“I usually buy such presents myself,”
Jonas joked. “I was too cheap to buy this one.”
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