Several meetings with the Jewish Federations of North America chairman over the past few years leave the same impression. He hosts people from across Detroit's Jewish community in his home, Orthodox and Reform, big donors and young couples, and somehow all of them have a real relationship with him. People call him a mensch, and in that world the word is not handed out for free. What they mention next, usually with some wonder, is that this soft-spoken man can get almost anyone in America on the phone. You will never hear that from him, and you will never see a photo of the meeting.

He rarely gives interviews. When he does, it's because he wants to move something for the Jewish people, not because he wants to be seen. So when he agreed to answer questions from The Jerusalem Post, the real question was what he wanted to move.

 

It turns out to be big. Over the past year, Torgow has lined up money for Jewish day schools from two governments at once.

 

Read the full interview in The Jerusalem Post.