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Aryeh Simon // Adar Currency Services/Adar Global • Change 86

JL;DR SUMMARY Aryeh Simon, originally from Los Angeles, transitioned from a life of Torah study to becoming a businessman, addressing the costly and delayed process of wiring money to Israel. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish EducationEntrepreneurshipTorah StudyKollelCurrency ExchangeAryeh SimonAdar GlobalMoney TransfersFinancial Services

Places mentioned

Israel
"Enter Aryeh Simons Adar Global, which helps people wire money to Israel and have it available the next dayand at a lower fee."
Ramat Eshkol, Southern District, Israel
"During our first year of marriage, I learned in the Mir, and we lived in Ramat Eshkol."
California, United States
"before moving to CalTech (California Institute of Technology), where he was the head of the math department for close to 40 years."
Chicago, Illinois, United States
"She went to UCLA and then to Princeton for graduate school, where she met my father."
South Bend, Indiana, United States
"there were no programs for that in Israel, so she went to a high school in South Bend, Indiana, for 12th grade and then to TI in Chicago."
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
"After Eretz Yisrael, I went to Ner Yisroel in Baltimore for three years."
New York City, New York, United States
"In the summers I worked as a waiter in Camp Avraham Chaim Heller in the Catskills."
Beitar, Jerusalem, Israel
"We moved to Beitar in 2007."
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