Rahm Emmanuel saying crises are opportunites:
[video=youtube;_y0hVI8Oi8Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y0hVI8Oi8Q[/video]
he served as the Assistant to the President for Political Affairs and as the Senior Advisor to the President for Policy and Strategy before resigning in 1998. Beginning a career in finance, Emanuel worked at the
investment bank Wasserstein Perella & Co. from 1998 to 2002 and served on the board of directors of
Freddie Mac.
Emanuel's grandfather was a Romanian
Jew from
Moldova.[SUP]
[2][/SUP] The surname
Emanuel (עמנואל), which means "God with us", was adopted by their family in honor of his father's brother Emanuel Auerbach, who was killed in 1933 in an altercation with Arabs in Jerusalem.[SUP]
[3][/SUP][SUP]
[4][/SUP]
Emanuel's father, Benjamin M. Emanuel, is a
Jerusalem-born[SUP]
[5][/SUP]
pediatrician at
Michael Reese Hospital[SUP]
[6][/SUP] who was once a member of the
Irgun, a Jewish paramilitary organization that operated in
Mandate Palestine.[SUP]
[7][/SUP] His mother, Marsha (née Smulevitz), is the daughter of a West Side Chicago
union organizer who worked in the
civil rights movement, and briefly owned a local
rock and roll club[SUP]
[1][/SUP][SUP]
[3][/SUP] and later became an adherent of
Benjamin Spock's writings. Emanuel's parents met during the 1950s in Chicago.[SUP]
[1][/SUP] Emanuel was born on November 29, 1959 in
Chicago, Illinois. His first name,
Rahm (רם) means
high or
lofty in
Hebrew.[SUP]
[4][/SUP] He has been described by his older brother
Ezekiel, an
oncologist and
bioethicist at the
University of Pennsylvania, as "quiet and observant" as a child.[SUP]
[6][/SUP]
Ari, the youngest, is the
CEO of
William Morris Endeavor, a talent agency with headquarters in
Beverly Hills, California;[SUP]
[8][/SUP] he also has a younger adopted sister, Shoshana.[SUP]
[3][/SUP]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel